It's been a busy week, but there were quite a few highlights. Tuesday afternoon, my parents met the kids and me at our local festival. Jack really enjoyed the petting zoo, and they both thought all of the rides looked neat. Next year, we'll have to take them on a few. :) Wednesday, we started our St. Patrick's Day celebrations early with green smoothies :). I didn't give any to Ella because it had peanut butter, and she's not quite two yet. Jack thoroughly enjoyed his and requested more (after it was all gone! He said, "Darn, Momma!" Haha!). And Thursday morning, they had green cinnamon applesauce oatmeal! I helped the kids make handprint shamrocks (one we gave to my mom for her birthday), and we started our flower dying experiment.  I trimmed each stem at an angle and talked to Jack about how the stem would draw up the liquid (water and 20 drops of green food coloring -- I added twenty more on Friday when I noticed the coloring was very faint...

1.  This week, we're learning about Saint Patrick's Day (the man, the traditions, the symbols, and the legends). So far, we've painted a shamrock using the end of a thick straw.   We've read ALL of the books we checked out from the library yesterday afternoon at least twice so far, haha.  We've found a patch of clover and made a clover collage.  I have some other fun crafts to do with him this week (lacing green Cheerios, handprint shamrocks, and one or two other things that might be a surprise for my mom whose birthday happens to be on St. Patrick's Day :) 2.  About a month ago, the small bottles of Tide detergent (think like 18 loads worth) were on sale. I grabbed one because my giant bottle was only about a fourth full. Then, this past grocery shopping day, I had a coupon for a bottle, so I grabbed another small one. Once emptied into the larger one, I realized I now had two containers the perfect size for toddler hands!  I cleaned them out and wrote eac...