Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Since I find myself sitting a lot these days I thought I would check out what's new on sugardoodle.net. We don't usually do much for St. Patrick's Day but they had so many cute ideas that I thought I would try some. We are, or we were :), learning about light in science so I thought we would do the section on rainbows as part of the festivities. As always is the case, my good intentions to make a fun day for the kids didn't turn out quite as planned but we did get to some of them done although we had to do our rainbow lesson the following day since we ran out of time (and mom was exhausted).
We started the day off with "leprecahn mush" for breakfast(green cream of wheat). A sneaky leprecahn had left each of us 5 "leprecahn coins" with a note that said we needed to try and be sneaky throughout the day and do get rid of all our coins by doing secret acts of service for others. For each service we did we put a coin in a cup-the goal was to get rid of all our coins by dinner time. The kids and I had fun being sneaky and I think we all got rid of our coins. Dylan had his done very quickly, he gave Jane her pacifier 4 times within a matter of a few minutes :). We may just have to make this a tradition.

We have been so blessed to have many people bring us meals since Jane was born. It may not seem like much but not having to worry about dinner has been sooo nice for me and for Scott who has been working a lot this week. I thought it would be fun to make some treats for those who have helped us and let them know how "Lucky" we feel to have them in our lives. We made green popcorn balls (with lime jello) and threw in some green m&ms too. The popcorn balls is what threw us for a loop. I've never made them before so didn't realize how important it is to cook the mixture just right. Needless to say we overcooked the first batch and the mixture turned as hard as a rock. Thank goodness we had an extra box of jello :).

We ended the night with "leprecahn dessert"(pistachio pudding) and telling eachother what we did for our acts of service.

The kids were quite bummed that we didn't get to our rainbow lesson and activities so I made sure we did it first thing the next day. We learned about the first rainbow and the what/why/how of rainbows. Then they each painted rainbows....

I made a fruit rainbow for lunch....

Star did a rainbow experiment. She painted all the colors of the rainbow on a round disc then spun it around to see if when spun the colors would all turn back to white.