It's St. Patrick's Day! Yes, we are part Irish, but we don't really celebrate. I kind of don't get what there is to celebrate, except for the fact that most people really like to use this day as an excuse to get ridiculously drunk in public. And although there is no significance in the timing of this event with St. Patrick's Day, a year ago today,
I got my first tattoo. Anyway, Julian has been learning about leprechauns in school this month, and decided that it would be a good idea to set a trap to catch one.
So we busted out a cardboard box, and he set to work drawing little details inside like pictures on the walls, an area rug, and he even made a little table that has food on it. The food on the table is a plate of cookies, a glass of orange juice, and I think he said there was a piece of fruit in there. Also, tiny silverware because leprechauns need that stuff too. "The food is fake, but he won't know it until he's already in there and I've trapped him" he told me. Julian also informed me that leprechauns like chocolate, so we put a single chocolate chip on the table and left the trap overnight.
When Julian left for school in the morning he told us, "Listen for footsteps!" We ended up leaving the house for a bit while he was in school and when we came back, the chocolate chip was gone, and a tiny green leprechaun slipper was left behind. He must have climbed in the trap to eat the chocolate chip, and in the struggle to get out of the box, lost a shoe. Julian is so completely excited at the idea of a real leprechaun being in his house, eating a chocolate chip.
Another big thing at our house lately has been a Harry Potter obsession. For Christmas, Wade's grandparents got Julian the entire set of H.P. books and we've been tearing through them, a chapter at a time. Julian is absolutely in love with the stories and listens intently and absorbs the tiniest details that sometimes slip by me, and I'm the one reading it aloud. I find myself so caught up in the stories too that I want to pick up a book and read a few chapters ahead on my own, but I never do.
As anyone with kids knows, bringing a new baby home is a huge adjustment time for everyone, especially the older siblings. Julian has actually been pretty cool about all of it, but I know there's been some anxiety building up to Audrey's birth, and once we brought her home it was a slight shock to him how much attention she required. He's even had a little trouble at school lately, and I'm sure it's because of all the changes here. Things will get better though, and life will go back to normal...just with one more person in the mix. Wade's mom got Julian a big brother present because it's important to make him feel special too in all this, and she sent him a sweet Harry Potter costume. Here he is all decked out in it:
Of course, I can't leave out little Audrey in this update! She's now two and a half weeks old, and we are so in love with her. I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to love a second child as much as I love Julian, but I was so wrong.
We're so lucky, but it has nothing to do with being Irish.
