Apparently, if you are 9 and 6 and your last name is Helm, St. Patrick's Day is about one thing only....Leprechaun's. Today, Madeline and Avery could not stop talking about the pesky creatures. We don't really "discuss" Leprechauns much at our house, but they sure seem to talk a lot about them in school! So much so in fact, that the girls are determined to catch one in our backyard. They spent a good hour in the yard after school creating a "trap". It consisted of dirt, a broom, and a blanket. (Camera had a dead battery, darn it!) Somehow the dirt is supposed to lure the leprechauns in to captivity? Leprechauns are shifty characters. According to the girls, these are the naughty things the colorful creatures did today:
*knocked over Avery's chair at school
*attacked Madeline in her bedroom (she emerged unscathed, thank goodness) Avery said the leprechaun looked just like her picture... but REAL (see below)
*the girls said they heard distant "screaming" in the backyard, and they could only assume that a Leprechaun was kidnapping a neighbor.
*knocked over Avery's chair at school
*attacked Madeline in her bedroom (she emerged unscathed, thank goodness) Avery said the leprechaun looked just like her picture... but REAL (see below)
*the girls said they heard distant "screaming" in the backyard, and they could only assume that a Leprechaun was kidnapping a neighbor.
Avery's LeprechaunI guess Leprechaun's are also confused, because in between their mischievous activities, they also found time to be extremely generous and gave Avery candy without asking, gave her a gold coin, and according to her the above picture even "winked" at her during dinner. By the end of the day, Madeline wanted nothing more to do with them. We even had green "Leprechaun juice" with our dinner. Madeline said "NO THANKS. If it has anything to do with Leprechauns, I'm outta here!!" (She drank it anyway)
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
3 comments:
The naughtiness is unbelievable. Thank heavens we are all safe for another year.
Your kids imagination is awesome. I need to spend a day with them, it would probably be the funnest day ever.
That's hilarious!! Lexi came home and did the exact same thing, setting a leprechaun trap in her room. It consisted of an empty tissue box, a tissue, a gaudy piece of dress-up jewelry and a ladder made out of lincoln logs. She insisted on having it set up in the middle of her room for like 3 days (I must have tripped over the darn thing and destroyed it like 10 times). Creative kiddos we have, I gotta give 'em that! I was wondering what the heck they were teaching at school, I'm glad it's not just Lexi's class.
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