St. Patrick's Day Tradition

Each year we leave a trap for a leprechan that visits our house. We leave him pennies and he trades us for gold coins (chocolate coins). Each year the trap gets a little more morbid - I guess that's what happens when you have a lot of boys! This year our trap involved fishing string, a box, a pencil, and glue to hold two pennies together with the fishing line in between. That way, when he pulls on the pennies, he pulls the pencil down, trapping him under the box. I guess I forgot to mention the knifes that are sticking in the box, in hopes they stab this little guy (did I already mention it's getting morbid). The last few years he has been pretty tricky. He always seems to avoid our traps, takes our pennies, and leaves us gold coins. Here's our trap for tonight:



After he comes tonight, we'll post our pictures of our gold!! I don't think I've told the leprechan story yet, but it's definately worth a read.

Last year, we spent quite a while setting up the trap for the Leprechan. They dressed up a box with all kids of polly pocket furniture (to make it nice and cozy), but then added every sharp knife we had into the box. It was a 'sharp' living space (sorry couldn't resist!). Anyway, the leprechan got knicked by a few of the knives trying to get all of his pennies, leaving raspberry scented blood behind. He was a little irritated, so he looked all over the living room for any extra pennies, or cash lying around. Jaxon had inadvertently left his wallet on the piano. Yes, the leprechan helped himself to his money. It was about $8 - but if you ask Jaxon today, it was over $50 (as if he'd really have that much money!!). The money was gone forever, producing a very nice memory, and perhaps a little hatred. Jaxon is determined to catch the leprechan to get back his money. We did warn the kids to hide any money that they had, just in case the leprechan started snooping around. They certainly didn't want to lose any more.

Just a quick picture of Cannon - he's growing so fast.