St. Patrick's Day: Round Up

Crafts and fingerpaints and fake mustaches aside, we did not call it quits there – although we could have and it still would have been a fine celebration.

However it wouldn't have been a special occasion without some special occasion cookies, so I made some:

And as if that wasn't enough I took things a step further and made this delightful mess: 

Try to suppress your gag reflex, everyone!

It's actually just vanilla pudding with green food coloring – and while I realize it looks completely awful, it turned out to be pretty much the best dessert EVER to a couple of toddlers: 

– Best dessert EVER, everyone!

No one was even acknowledging their shamrock cookies, despite "shamrock" being the word of the day.

So basically gross = awesome goodness if you are two and the endless chorus last night of "Green pudding! Green pudding delicious!" confirms that.

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Earlier in the day I was trying to get some pics of the boys sporting their St. Patrick's Day themed t-shirts, some of which ended up in this post.

Here are the rest (the majority of which took place while making carrot soup): 

 - L. 

PS. Both of my boys' hair photographs redder than it actually is. Seth's hair mostly appears a shade or two darker in photos, but is definitely red under any lighting conditions in real life. Nate's hair is darker and in real life is probably closest to this color minus 25% red. In regular indoor lighting or on an overcast day his hair might appear to be light brown to the casual observer. The right lighting on the other hand shows off his ginger tendencies nicely – however, direct sunlight + my camera makes it look like he's been sampling from the home hair color aisle. Or is possibly wearing a wig.