Leprechauns

The beauty of having a teen aged sister is that they do things like show up on the morning of St. Patrick's Day with green comb-in hair paint. The other benefit is that your Mom will be so thrilled that you are bonding over the love of green hair, that she will not hesitate to agree to it.

Emily's best super model pose.
So after we got Emily all in her green gear & hair Jacob announced that he wanted green hair too. I told him he had swimming lessons, and couldn't because it would wash off in the pool BUT after swimming I would put some in his and Jane's hair.

Then we set about the morning routine.

I heard them laughing together upstairs. I should have gone running to check on them, but instead finished up the breakfast dishes and glanced at the clock to realize that we were perfectly on time to leave for said swimming lesson.

Laughter in this house does not mean happy children - it means trouble. I searched them out to tell them it was time to leave.

First I saw this -

Then this -

and this -

this -

And finally this -

I had been smart enough to put the green hair paint up very high when I was finished with it. Jacob is not the child to be deterred by lack of a coloring medium - he simply substituted bright pink toothpaste. Needless to say, we were late to swimming (but miraculously, did make the last 1/2 of the lesson.)

And even though they SO didn't deserve it, I did paint their hair green to match Emily's later that day.