St Patrick's Day

We had a wonderful day yesterday, made especially nice by the weather- warm and sunny! A rundown of the events of the day:

-forgot it was St Pat's day until Gene came down fully dressed in green (that boy never forgets what's on the calendar!) so I ran back up to change and helped the girls find green shirts.

-had a regular, non-green breakfast since I had already started making it before I realized the special occasion

-helped Jane find different pants to wear when she wet her first pair. By the way, she is really doing well with potty training. She only peed a little bit in her pants, and since I was actually playing with her in the kitchen at the moment, she looked at me in total awareness, and then started taking off her pants. Anyway, it was very hard to find another pair of pants that matched her green plaid shirt- pink and purple just don't. Finally found a pair.

-went to Atrium, where most other kids were wearing green. Jane was delighted to see Aunt Reenie and a woman with a green cast on her leg. She said Aunt Reenie's shirt and the cast matched her shirt, and each time she opened up her sweatshirt (a zip kind) a little to show her green shirt underneath. She sat with the cast-lady for a while (in the nursery at Atrium)...she is generally really comfortable around friendly strangers...!

-went to the Mitzel's house after Atrium to play outside for awhile and bask in the sunshine. Nice to catch up with them, as we haven't seen them in a while

-took the two oldest Mitzel kids back to my house for a while so Karen could run an errand. They hadn't been over in so long that they were delighted with all the new things we had out on our shelves. Norah used to come to preschool here last year, and she still goes to the school shelves in the hopes of finding new "works". They did every new work that was out, and really enjoyed the art supplies. It was so peaceful!

-Karen came back and took Gene and Lucy back to her house. They played outside again for about 2 hours.

-we had dinner when Brendan came home- oven-baked chicken, sweet potatoes, salad, and Irish brown bread. Green jello with whipped cream for dessert. A feast!

-Gene and Brendan played the Wii afterwards, Lucy got ready for bed, Jane tried to fit her underwear on her dolls before succumbing to bed herself.

A really nice day. Hope everyone else out there had the same!