Oden Adventures

With a Patrick and now an Oliver Patrick in the house, this is always one of our favorite holidays!  Mostly we just stayed home and made/wore green things, but it was still a fun day.

Green pancakes!  (Not posting the disastrous attempts at creating shamrock-shaped ones...)

 Pinch proofed!

About 11:00am I thought, we need to get out and a bunch of stores had cute St. Patrick's Day cookies when we've been out & about the past week: Let's go get some!  Well, WHO KNEW that one must procure their festive goodies well before noon on the day of?!!  We went to THREE STORES and came home empty-handed.  Fortunately, a little later in the day, there was a knock at the door and the leprechauns (aka Granma Oden via the mail lady) had left some special packages there for the kids!

We had our annual festive fare for dinner, my saint Patrick's favorite: corned beef (w/ cabbage & potatoes)...and instead of the sought-after cookies, we had some leftover vanilla ice cream sprinkled with green m&ms )picked out of the large bag purchased for the sole purpose of motivating Vianne to potty train) for dessert.