You see that picture pinned to my child's shirt? That is an attempt from me, to make sure that my child does not get pinched at school. He didn't have any green. I then waited until the last few minutes before I was to take him to class and realized, NO GREEN!!! So I quickly looked on line, printed this picture of a hat and pinned it to the poor boys chest. Phew! "They can't say I am a bad mom now! My kid has GREEN on!"
When I was younger my mom always made a big deal about some of the holidays. St Patrick's Day was one of them. When St Patrick's Day came around, we would get home from school and find a little treasure hunt waiting for each of us with a little bag of candy at the end of it.
This made me think that I should start something special for the boys. So, I bought those little chocolate Candies that look like coins and Ryan and I created a "treasure map" if you will. It occured to us later that we should have a pot of gold at the end of it instead of an X, but we can do that next year!
This is the map that we created. Paxton was to find it on the door of the house when we arrived home from school
The problem with this map is, Paxton is too smart for it. He was all sorts of ready to walk right back to the tree behind the garage instead of circling the other tree and bouncing on the trampoline as the map suggests...
Here he is with his treasure, I got video of the treasure hunt, so no pictures. When he got to the "treasure" it wasn't what he was looking for. He didn't even acknowledge it. Seriously, he just kept looking. I had to actually say "paxton, this is it kid!" and then he picked up the coins. Both of the boys also got a sweet St. Patrick's day card from my mom. Thank's mom!
Gauge with his card.
The problem with this map is, Paxton is too smart for it. He was all sorts of ready to walk right back to the tree behind the garage instead of circling the other tree and bouncing on the trampoline as the map suggests...Here he is with his treasure, I got video of the treasure hunt, so no pictures. When he got to the "treasure" it wasn't what he was looking for. He didn't even acknowledge it. Seriously, he just kept looking. I had to actually say "paxton, this is it kid!" and then he picked up the coins. Both of the boys also got a sweet St. Patrick's day card from my mom. Thank's mom!Gauge with his card. After the treasure hunt we headed inside to make cookies.
Now in my mind we are going to make sugar cookies and they are going to turn out great and we will all sit around the kitchen and laugh with glee as we decorate the cookies. Then, as I went to buy the ingredients I remembered my last sugar cookies. You all remember them right?!! They were not very recognizable. Thats when I caught a glimpse of this...
(que choir singing "AHHHHHHH")
I know, they aren't even St. Patrick's day cookies, but they will definitely work!! And they did!
This is after an icing fight with Daddy...As you can see, Paxton pretty much lost!
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday!
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday!
8 comments:
Wow! Can I be your kid.....we never got to do anything fun like that! In fact Dan and I forgot that it was St. Patricks day.
mmmmm......can I come for an easter egg hunt??
YES!! Please come Sarah!
Whitney! I'm so sorry. I didn't recognize you last night. I sat there forever trying to remember how I knew you and my brain was just not working. After reading Julia's blog and seeing that you were there, then looking at your blog I recognized your face and then remembered. So sorry about that, I'm a nut! Hopefully I'll be able to see you at the next show she does. TTYL.
Oh my gosh, you know Suzanne, too?!? Too small a world, if you ask me. How crazy is that!! Ahh, St. Patrick's Day. I LOVE your idea of a treasure hunt - brilliant! If I ever forgot to wear green to school, I always used the excuse that I have green eyes...so lame. You do such fun things for your kids - maybe I should just drop my boys off and let you raise them?
Thanks again for coming last night! You looked fabulous!
Good times. Smart boy that Paxton. You do a great job with those kids.
What a fun Mom!!! I'm glad you are giving me all of these awesome ideas so that next year, when Molly has a clue, we can totally try it out! thanks for sharing your good mom tips, I need all that I can get!!!
Isn't it funny how when your kids start getting older it is almost hilarious that they know your tricks. The whole bag of coins being the treasure was so exactly what my Lincoln would have done. He would have been looking for a treasure box or something big like that. LOL.
Fun idea though. We always have the Leprechauns come to our house and turn all of our food green. Our milk, our orange juice, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, pancakes (whatever we eat that day) they all get turned green by the leprechauns and it is so funny to watch their reactions. Kids definitely make holidays more fun!!!
Wish we could hang!
Maybe next year's treasure hunt may have to be a little more difficult. Now I'm hungry for sugar cookies (mainly the frosting!!)
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