St. Patrick's Day 2016

Here's our fashionable - and green - little girl, ready to tackle the day today without getting pinched.  No worries here, because not only is she wearing green, her shirt actually reads "IRISH" on it.  We've been looking forward to March 17th, sort of building up to it with movies and Irish music the last two weeks or so, and here were are on the day itself.  Madison knew immediately - check out her bathroom again:

Yes, that leprechaun was back in the house.  The mirror has a pot of gold and shamrocks on it, and of course there are the shamrock lights hanging up in there.  This evening, those still hang on the mirror, all lit up as a sort of night light.  And yes, the leprechaun not only got the bathroom sink area.  He also got here as well:

We could hear Madison down the hall as she discovered all this in her bathroom.  It was a lot of fun!  When she got downstairs though, there was more fun to be had.  We got her a few items related to the day, including a box of Lucky Charms for breakfast.  Also, there were pencils and a nice sticker book Mommy ordered some time ago.  Our leprechaun salt and pepper shakers joined us a few weeks ago from the basement, a nice souvenir from a shop in Gatlinburg a few years ago.

Plus, Mommy decorated another area in the kitchen with some more of the decorations we had from downstairs too!

Yes, we were all decked out for St. Patty's Day as if it were Christmas or something.  We had the music playing, the green clothing on, and were ready for a great day at school, and at home.

Although Daddy wasn't at home too much today.  He was helping fix Nana and Ye-Ye's new television so they could have working audio.  Meanwhile, Mommy was preparing an incredible feast for us.  Daddy got his weekly shot, and Mommy got some Irish soda bread prepared - gluten-free!  She also had some corned beef to cook up.

When Madison got home from school today, we went to speech therapy (Madison is still working on the letter 'r').  We actually got home without too much of a hassle from 400, despite the huge problems that existed on this same road just a few miles south.  And when we got home, it was time for a traditional Irish dinner.  Madison sampled some of the corned beef, which she likes now - dipped in a little ketchup.  Yes, that's nearly sacrilegious, but we're taking baby steps here!  Dinner was just marvelous, anyway.  It was really nice.

We watched a few more things tonight during dinner and throughout the evening:  selections from "Riverdance" (where Madison promptly started to show us her high-stepping dance), and the story of St. Patrick from an old Veggie Tales DVD, finishing up with the "Leprechaun's Christmas Gold."  It was during the last of these that we all worked on our cookies!

Shamrock cookies!  We had about three pans full of cookies to decorate, so we added the green sprinkles and other colors too, and had fun making more holiday cookies.  We'll be eating these in just a few days when we go over to Nana and Ye-Ye's house - it's there that we'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day once again, this time with the whole family.  We have fun with that there.

We did quite a bit here, and it was pretty much time for bed afterwards.  So off to bed, and off to more reading.  It was a fun, full day.  Irish every day could be like this one!