Happy St. Patrick's Day

Ethan, Alex and Evelyn designed and built this Leprechaun Trap last week in hopes of THIS YEAR getting that darned elusive little guy. The designing and building was mostly accompanied by Alex's personal musings: "Are leprechauns real? How big are they? I think they're really fast - I once saw one flash by. I don't believe that leprechauns are real."

Signs on the trap warn to "Do Not Enter" and "Out of Order" since leprechauns are wont to ignore directions. And since they like shiny things, plenty of glitter glue went on as well. Not bad considering these were the only crafts in our empty house at the time: a shoebox, an egg carton, and some glitter glue.


On St. Patrick's Day morning, the boys woke to find this note and mysterious footprints across the trap, the note, and the table (how fun that markers are washable!)

Ho Ho Ho, Hee Hee Hee, Really Good Try, but you Can't Catch Me. Better Luck Next Year.

Ethan was mildly suspicious that the footprints ended at the table and that the candy left by him was candy we ALSO happened to have in our cupboard, but in his eagerness to go along with the fun his comments stopped there. "I think the other leprechauns picked him up in their leprechaun ship."

Alex, however had to give running commentary through breakfast about how the whole thing was a fake.

"These footprints are fake. They are just marker, look they rub off."

"Some of these footprints are facing the wrong way."

"This candy isn't from a leprechaun, this is our candy. It's from our cabinet."

"I don't think a leprechaun wrote this note."

A similar scenerio occured last year as well. But that doesn't seem to stop them from building the trap each year and hoping beyond hope that one day they'll catch one. Nor do they take the leap of asking if MOM planted the whole thing either.

Sometimes it's just fun to pretend.