Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Being half Irish (Grady is about half too since Eric is also Irish), I definitely like to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. So far Grady and I are having a fun day. He's wearing his "Mom's Lucky Charm" shirt. We made a handprint shamrock from my new favorite kid's craft/activity blog, and we also made Shamrock Smoothies. The recipe came from his National Geographic Little Kid magazine he gets from Nana. I have to say, it is a great recipe! It has a whole CUP of spinach in it, and Grady drank more than half of the batch. He loved it because it also has banana, kiwi, yogurt, and frozen green grapes. I also found out he loves frozen green grapes on their own, so there's a new snack idea! I plan on making these every week, I think. I need the spinach for iron and what toddler couldn't use more green veggies? It's perfect!

This afternoon we are headed to Grady's make-up gymnastics class. Then I am going to make Shepherd's Pie tonight for dinner. I am actually making it with beef (which I very rarely eat) so there is some more iron for me! I think it should be yummy.

So we leave for FL in 3 days - lots to do - I haven't even started to pack! EEEK!

Here are a few pictures of Grady enjoying our St. Patty's Day festivities :)

Making handprint shamrocks







finished product - he is always so proud of his creations





Making the Shamrock Smoothies - he measured out the frozen grapes



looking so cute



He freaking LOVES yogurt





Look how green! This is before we blended.



He couldn't WAIT to try it. We had it with lunch too.



Hope all of you (Irish or not) have a fun day!