So we had a Leprechaun come visit our condo overnight! That sneaky little guy, did a lot of silly things. And we were warned and asked to build a trap and bring it to school yesterday. Too bad his trap was at school because we could have used it here ;)
That tricky Leprechaun put stickers on the boys' foreheads, and took pictures of them! Good thing too, because it seems those stickers didn't last through the night. The only reason we knew he did it was because we saw my camera he left out and we took a peak at what was on the memory card. Here is what he did.
Who sleeps like that?? lol
There were stickers on the TV and some of the door knobs.
He turned our toilet water green!
And wrote taunting messages and pictures on our mirrors.
And that sneaky guy also magically turned the boys' milk green in the morning. I started pouring the milk from the jug and it turned green in the cup! They got a kick out of it. Aiden started questioning me and asking if I did all of this, and I told him no way. Would Mommy really put stickers on the TV and door knobs? I don't allow stickers anywhere but on paper or people. He agreed, and then got a worried look on his face and said, "Let's just pretend you did this Mommy". I think he was a little nervous thinking about a strange little man running around his house. Funny he didn't get nervous when Santa came to visit. He quickly got over his unease and was so eager to tell all his friends and teachers about what happened at our house.
Here is the trap Aiden built with Micah. He was just so excited to shop for the supplies and just couldn't wait to build it. He had to wait a few days until Micah was available to help and the suspense was just killing the boy!
We got to bring it back home today...the Leprechaun visited his classroom too, but unfortunately none of the traps caught him.
Aiden, and his love of monster trucks, really needed to have one in his trap. So we attached the "pot of gold" to the truck, and placed the pot on top of the string. When the Monster Truck saw the Leprechaun approach he was to drive off with the gold, releasing the string which brought down the cup to catch the Leprechaun (watch the video at the end).
Ye not going to catch me gold!
If only it were real...
But the Leprechaun did leave gold coins in all the traps at school...so he was allusive, but generous. Unfortunately, not real though :(Here's the video of how the trap works. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
3 comments:
Hooray!!! more posts please! I loved this. i can't believe Devin sleeps like that! Funny. We didn't know about leprechauns doing these sort of things. Ally informed me about it and wondered why they didn't come to our house. I think maybe it is a Midwest thing? I don't know, but I have never heard of doing all this funny stuff until this year. Ally said she couldn't sleep the whole night because she was worried about the leprechauns coming. I felt bad that they skipped our house. lol.
Oh and Micah and Aiden made a way way cool trap. I am seriously impressed!
I honestly didn't know about leprechauns visiting either until we came out here-or building traps. But the guy at the checkout counter remembered making one when he was little, so maybe it's a west coast thing. And I heard there are all kinds of tricky leprechauns, where some really trash the house or car etc. I'm glad our leprechaun was somewhat kind and didn't mess things up too much. However, you never know which one will come next year! Now if only they would do something helpful, like fix our shoes or clean our home... ;)
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