Happy St. Patrick's Day

This St. Patrick's Day has come with much excitement and anticipation.  We decided that our little imps were old enough to be introduced to those pesky little leprechauns from Ireland.  This has led to many exciting conversations about how we should build our traps because no one likes green milk, or knots in their sheets, or heaven forbid if you are bad enough..... having your hair tied to the bed posts. 

 One of the decoys.

A trip to the library to find books on St. Patrick's day and leprechauns was in order and we have been reading up on these pesky little people and their country.  It seems that their favorite things are gold, glitter, green things, shamrocks, rainbows and most importantly breaking rules.  So we made a trip to the dollar store to collect our trap and decoy leprechaun supplies. That done all we had to do was wait for Dad to get home.

The Boys Trap

Dad had it rigged so that it would drop when you pulled the candy of the support stick.

Once we had ours made the little princess had to call everyone and remind them to make their traps.  I'm not sure how much of the information expressed was passed on but, the level of excitement was definitely understood. 

The Girls Trap

Ours was a pit style with a falling trap door hidden under the chocolate eggs. Notice the chocolate on her face she had to make sure the bait was good enough.

I honestly believe my children were as excited about this, as they were Christmas Eve.  The proof was when Sleeping beauty was up before her brother this morning to check her trap!  We had some success but those leprechauns still managed to out smart us.   Daddy and the little man checked their trap first, they were sure they had caught one. We all gathered around and even though all eyes were on the trap he still manged to escape. One of us must have blinked because all I saw was a flash of sparkles heading out the slider door. He did leave us a pile of gold coins in the trap.

Next we checked the girls trap.  It had definitely been visited, the golden eggs weren't on the top anymore and the trail of them leading to the trap was missing, even the ladder had been tipped over.  When we checked inside we didn't see any leprechauns but they left us some more gold coins.  It was at this point that we noticed the trail of sparkles leading away from our traps.  We followed the trail all the way to the fridge.  The little man opened the fridge because his sister was too scared to do it.  They got us again!  Green milk!
Hopefully the rest of our day will prove to be as fun.

May the Luck of the Irish be with you all! 

Happy St. Paddy's Day!