Every day is St. Patrick's Day

Or at least that's what Drake thinks.
Every morning when we sit down for breakfast, he informs me that today is St. Patrick's Day.
St. Patty's Day was pretty good to Drake. He wore his green sweater vest. We cut out green paper shamrocks and he helped hang them up around the playroom to surprise Bart. Lucy had to get shots, but Drake didn't. Mommy and Skylar had to go to the dentist but he didn't. He got to play with Nana. He even wore his green sweater vest to bed (over his pajamas) and I was hard-pressed to convince him to let me wash it the next day.









I think he looks a bit like a leprechaun.

The night before St. Patty's, Bart's class set traps to catch a leprechaun. Their assignment the week before was to create some sort of leprechaun trap and bring it to school the day before St. Patrick's Day. Bart wanted to make a movie theater to trap his leprechaun and use real popcorn to lure him/her in. Now, you might think that there would be no possible way Star Wars could ever factor into this St. Patrick's Day project in any way. Guess again.

Bart and Skylar spent probably an hour leafing through old magazines until they found some pictures of Star Wars characters. Bart decided that his Leprechaun Cinema would be showing a Star Wars movie. He and Skylar glued the magazine cuttings onto the "movie screen" in his leprechaun trap, and that's how Bart was able to incorporate his favorite thing in the world into a school project about leprechauns.

It turns out none of the traps were able to catch the leprechaun. However, Bart's came pretty close. The leprechaun ate the popcorn out of the inside of the trap and left a series of little green footprints on the roof of the Leprechaun Cinema.