luck o' the green

3/16/12

Dallin & Parker were much younger boys.

Leprechauns played & made mischief with toys.

We made green eggs & ham.

We said, "Leprechauns, scram!"

Shamrocks & gold brought St. Patrick's Day joys.

 

our lucky leprechaun on her way to school, 3/16/12

Then came an angel with golden brown eyes.

Loving & playful we reach for the skies.

Amber turned her hair green!

Parker colored her clean.

"Leprechauns visit, eat kiwi!" she cries.

saturday night parker started her bath water (& added a touch of his own - food coloring, not hair color!)  3/17/12

thanks for the great touch of green today (& for tomorrow, too!) Amber, Kiaya & Hannah!

a few notes: 

Kyralyn has been writing letters to Leonard the Leprechaun for the past several weeks.

He wrote back, on little tiny pieces of green paper (thanks, Mrs. Paxman!).

She learned that he is married, lives in a mushroom, has a pet dog named Lucky & his favorite treat is kiwi.

She made him a little house to play in when he visited us on St. Patrick's Day.

She used blocks, blankets & pillows.

She even left him books to read & a plate of little tiny chunks of kiwi to eat before riding away on his rainbows.

(I'm glad he used rainbows this year & didn't track in dirt, leaves & twigs like he has before!)

He read the polar bear book, played on the playground made out of blocks & ate the kiwi.

To say thank you, he left several pieces of gold with a chocolate treat inside and one of her favorite treats:  a green airhead candy.

He left some for the boys too, but more for memory's sake:  he missed the mini playgrounds they used to build for him.

I will say, he was much more behaved this year, must have been in such a hurry to get home, he didn't create any shamrock mischief!