"May those who love us, love us. And may those that don't love us, Lord- turn their hearts. And if you can't turn their hearts, Lord- then at least turn their ankles so we will know them by their limping." -- Irish Prayer

Happy St. Patrick's Day! We started the day off in the Blake household with plenty of green food coloring. Coleman had raisin toast shamrocks with green butter, while I had french toast with green shamrocks.


Hmmm, green dye.... this should be interesting later.

Mid-morning we read some books about St. Patricks Day and listened to some Irish Music. Then we watched a little bit of the New York St. Pat's day parade on tv. Coleman was unimpressed, so he changed it back to some robot cartoon. I guess I should be glad he prefers robots to green beer at this age.

For school work we did a holiday theme, with maze, craft, sequencing work and practicing the letters L (for leprechaun) and S (for shamrock). I think Coleman grasps the basics of the holiday (st. Patrick went to Ireland, built churches and told people about God, supposedly drove snakes out of the country) as well as the fictional stuff with leprechauns and rainbows.

This afternoon I wanted to do something fun with him, so we did a leprechaun hunt. Basically I walked around the house and took photos of 9 places to hide a leprechaun or pot of gold. I printed out bits of paper that had a leprechaun on one side and the photo of a location on the reverse. I colored a paper bag and folded it to look like a pot and filled it with hershey's kisses with almonds (in gold wrappers). After hiding 8 leprechauns and the "pot of gold" I handed him the first leprechaun and he followed the trail from one to the next until he found the gold. It was a lot of fun and he immediately took the candy outside to share with his friends. Below is the video of the hunt- the house is a shambles and the video quality stinks, so don't look too closely.