Tiny O'Reily

What a fun St. Patrick's Day we had. This morning the kids had green eggs and green shamrock pancakes for breakfast. They were funny because they beg for green eggs all the time ... probably because they know I'll say no. So today I make them and they only took a few bites. Oh well, it was fun.

Paxton had a wonderful day at school. Yesterday his teacher chose him to help set a leprechan trap. He said he made a little slide with a box at the end to catch him. This morning the class checked and he had gone down the slide and ate through the box to get out! He said Tiny had walked through green paint and his little footsteps were across the chalkboard, on the tables, the walls, he had played on their leprechan ladders they made, etc. What a fun teacher he has! Then Tiny left them a note that said:

Dear Boys and Girls,
Please look on the other side of the paper. I left a magic recipe.
Tiny O'Reilly

He had also left some magic powder that they had to mix with milk and they got a magic green drink! He told me he could still feel the magic in his belly. :)

We had the missionaries over for dinner tonight and Ty wanted something green for dinner too ... he actually thought we should only be eating green things today and got mad at lunch when he had orange Spagetti-Os ... so we had brownies and mint chip ice cream.

The other fun thing about today is that its my mom's birthday and this year Pax was all about it. We've been talking about it for a week and he told his teacher his grandma has a special birthday. This morning he said, "If its Grandma's birthday and St. Patrick's Day then does she get pinched twice?" I laughed and said, "Grandma always says since its her birthday nobody can pinch her even if she doesn't wear green and if you do pinch her she'll get to pinch you back!" He thought about it for a minute and said, "huh ... well she'll still have to get birthday spankings! ... and I forgot to give them to Uncle Leavitt for his birthday!" So watch out when we come to visit! Pax has plans!