Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Happy Birthday & Happy St. Paddy’s Day

We started our Saint Patrick’s celebrations early and went to the Dublin parade on Saturday.  Here’s our neighbor, Ken, making the rounds as Oscar the Otter (he works at the city water department).  He did a great job, and  his secret was safe until I posted this blog : )  Sorry Ken!  And no that’s not Mary, his wife, holding his hand.  He had to have a “handler” because he couldn’t see out of that head very well.

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Today our St. Paddy’s boy, Cheerio, turned 5.  So for his birthday walk, I took the boys up to the Lafayette reservoir and we walked the 3 mile trail.  It was a gorgeous day and Nicholas was rewarded with the big playground located at the end of the trail.  Poor Cheerio though was wiped out afterwards : )  Happy Birthday Cheerio!!!

 

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Mary gave me a great recipe for Irish soda bread so I made that along with some hearty soup and some shamrock cookies.  Nicholas insisted on pink frosting for his (don’t know where he gets his love of pink).

 

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We bought Nicholas his own basketball hoop this past weekend and we have loved playing a little b-ball every night after dinner.  And yes that’s Mike with his mouth full of Irish bread…he likes to play and eat at the same time.

 

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK’S DAY…I’m off to pinch Mike : )

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