Spring Has Sprung

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Truth be told, I've never done much to celebrate the holiday, and often forget to wear green (including today). It's kind of surprising that I typically fail to wear green since it is my favorite color. Oh well, chalk it up to being one additional detail that this tired woman can't seem to remember one day in March each year.

At least I remembered to put Alexandra in some green today.


I picked her up a little early from daycare today and found that while they didn't have a party (a first, they seem to have parties for every holiday), they did celebrate the day by making green shirts covered in shamrocks, and each little one had a shamrock-shaped sugar cookie surprise in their cubby.


Speaking of surprises, Alexandra sure had one for me. Each morning, I give her a little box of raisins to munch on during the drive to daycare - the child loves raisins and would eat them for every meal. Here's Exhibit A:


Totally caught in the act - I rest my case.

Anyway, after Alexandra finishes her morning snack, she usually throws the empty raisin box down in her car seat(or so I thought) and I pick them up and throw them out. Well, apparently she has been throwing them in other places. Look what I found underneath the seat by the floor board....


Yes, that is a dozen empty boxes of raisins I pulled out from underneath the seat! Interesting that the SUV just got detailed a week or so ago and these weren't found!

After disposing of all of the boxes, we decided to take advantage of the beautiful sunny day and take a little walk.


Everyone in the neighborhood loves Pearl, kids and adults alike. It seems we usually get stopped at least once on a walk by some of the neighborhood kids requesting to pet her - she loves the attention.


Alexandra sat on the edge of her stroller seat, taking everything in, but occasionally she would glance back to make sure mommy was still there.


After our brief jaunt around the neighborhood, we had a little play time in the backyard, which mostly consisted of Alexandra climbing up and down the steps to our deck a good 20 times.



Before we knew it, it was time for dinner - Alexandra feasted on the typical kiddo favorites of chicken nuggets, cheese, corn and her sugar cookie from daycare (I had to throw a little green in there somewhere!).


Dinner time was entertaining to say the least. It came complete with music (countless requests for mommy to sing Itsy Bitsy Spider followed by an ecstatic "Yeah!" by Alexandra when the song was finished), lots of counting to 10, and Alexandra showing me "the Bird," a move I can only guess she learned in her music class at daycare.


Obviously we didn't have a crazy St. Patrick's Day full of green beer (like I might have enjoyed a few years back), but it was a lovely day nonetheless.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!