Go Green!

No, I don't mean low flow toilets and solar panels, I'm talking about St.Patricks Day! This is a fun holiday, for some very silly reasons. I love to make green meals, and seeing everyone wearing green clothing. There is something strangely unifiying in seeing complete strangers all decked out in green. Today was no exception. I got to pinch both Michaela and Payden because they forgot and came upstairs without green on. They each took turns "pinching" the baby.

I saw some very cute leprechaun templates on a cool cooking blog, which I used throughout the day to make meal time fun. They made an appearance at every meal all day.

For breakfast, it hung out on a cereal box. At this point, the girls just thought it was odd, and looked at me funny for putting it there.

Then for the girls' lunches, I made cucumber and cream cheese sandwhiches, with green cream cheese. I stuck a leprechaun on the sandwhich bag.

For me and Ava's lunch, we had green cream cheese and avacado, ham and spinach sammies. Yum! And green apples. I stuck the little guy in Ava's sandwhich. This mostly just confused her, she didn't know what leprechauns are. Have you ever tried to explain what one is to a four year old who has never heard of it before? Yeah, that was fun.

For snack, green cream cheese in celery sticks. The girls were starting to get it by now, and were commenting on where else they may see the green man.

Then for dinner, we had green pasta (normal pasta boiled in water with green food coloring) with pesto sauce and spinach. I shaped it into four leaf clovers, and stuck the stingy midget in there.

And since the girls were getting sure they knew what I was doing with the lepreachaun, I changed it up a bit. On the bottom of their glasses of green milk, I taped the face of the leprechaun.

A fun green day, for sure!