Leprechaun Day!

I tried to find some green spray paint because the girls wanted to have green hair for St. Patty's Day, but it was no where to be found. So I bought this cheap green wig. Kaitlyn now goes to a little preschool and this is what she wore yesterday. The teacher said she wore it all day!
Sarah did not want to wear the wig into the 3rd grade class, but she did want a little stripe of green hair. (Alan wanted nothing to do with the wearing of the green wig)

Here is Sarah showing us the irish dinner we had-Corned beef and cabbage with carrots and potatoes, and Irish soda bread. She's also modeling the wig.

After dinner we made rainbow cupcakes!! And played find the leprechaun.

Planting our little garden

For Family Home Evening last night we decided to make another attempt at planting a garden. I've never been able to get anything to grow except beans, peas, and tomatoes, I'm not sure what will come up.Last year we had no garden,and it was a good thing because our yard was over run with gigantic black grasshoppers. Hopefully they won't come back. Does anybody have a good way to get rid of those dinasaur sized things? I never knew they existed until I came here. Here's William doing his favorite chore: watering the garden!!

Sand imported from the Moon

A trip to the playroom on Friday afternoon revealed a new discovery at the sand and water table: Moon Sand!!

Toys R Us had it on sale, and so I bought some and put it in the long neglected sand table. I haven't had anything in their for a long time since it usually gets eaten. Yes, I said eaten. Either that or thrown all around the room.

I took a chance on the moon sand because it claims to be easy to clean up. I wouldn't support that claim. If you get it, don't let your kids play with it anywhere near a rug or you will spend quite a while vacuuming it up. But, they absolutely love it, and even Alan and Sarah spent hours in it on Saturday. I have looked for moon sand recipes, and I did make some moon sand-it is NOT the same. So for now we'll have fun with the real stuff and hope we don't lose too much of it to the vacuum.