Not so lucky...

Again, the boys tried to catch themselves a Leprechaun, and again they were not successful. Despite another excellent attempt, those tricky Leprechaun's outsmarted the boys again. However, he did loose a some of his gold.

Nicholas sat down on Wednesday night with a pencil, his thinking cap, and a piece of paper to plan out this years trap. He came up with a pretty good plan! The "tish you paper" covered up the wooden steps and the olive can. And of course there is a wooden pot of gold (which later was revised into a plastic container with dark grey cardstock wrapped around it and stuffed with gold tissue paper).



The plan went into effect Saturday evening.



And in case you can't make out the background...it's a rainbow with a whole bunch of Leprechaun's going towards the "gold". That was to throw the real Leprechaun off of the trick.
And while the boys completed their trap, Elizabeth slept....for a full 13 hours. What? You don't think that looks comfy? LOL-of course we moved her to her bed where she slept the night away!

Lost Teeth & Training Wheels

The two oldest Remacle boys had a very exciting few days. Ok, so maybe Sean had a very exciting weekend & Nicholas had an exciting Monday. We've been working on Sean to loose those training wheels for sometime now. Ray finally decided he'd had those wheels long enough and used some bribary to get that kid moving. It worked. Apparently, the threat of lost video games until the training wheels comes off is good motivation for a video game junkie. Thus, Sean worked a little bit on Saturday with some success and then got discouraged and gave up. Sunday was a whole other story. As soon as he got home from a friends birthday party, he looked at Ray and said "I want to learn to ride my bike." With that, he was off! (With the exciting reward of Harry Potter on the Wii with Daddy later that afternoon). Now we have a bike riding fool that goes non-stop.





Then, Elizabeth decided to get in on the action.



Well, the evening ended and what do you know? Not only did Sean loose the training wheels, he lost his second tooth.



Then, on Monday morning Nicholas comes running into my classroom with this huge smile and laughing eyes; holding a wet paper towel to his mouth. I was greeted with "Mom, I lost my tooth!" and a small white tooth laying in the palm of his hand. Apparently, his tooth was looser than we all thought and the accidental bump from a third grader popped it out. Needless to say, the Tooth Fairy definately knows her way to our house, is probably going broke, and the Tooth Fairy teddy bear pillow (that was mine and Tracie's from childhood) is getting a workout protecting those teeth.



If you look really close at the top left side, you will see a small hole where a tooth once lived.

It was definately an exciting few days in our house with lots of lost items...however, at least these lost items were supposed to eventually become lost.

March Freebies!

So March brought some great buys! My favorite shopping trip was when I was able to purchase 4 half cases of Pepsi, 1 bag of Doritos, the Glade Scented Oil Warmer, 4 cans of pineapple chunks, and 2 boxes of Eggo waffles for $9.00! I saved 81% of my bill...to date, that has been my best ever bargin shopping trip. How did I do that you ask? Well, I had a $10.00 off coupon from a previous shopping trip, and a $5.00 off of new frozen food products from a previous shopping trip. Then I just checked out the deals. Eggo waffles were on sale 2/$5.00 (FREE!), the Pepsi was buy 2 get 2 free plus a bag of Doritos free, the Glade Scented Oil Warmer was on sale for $1.19 and my coupon was for $1.50 off (thus the $0.31 moneymaker), and the pineapple was on sale 4/$5.00. Ray was even impressed with this shopping trip! So, here's a pic of this months freebie finds!



2 bags of Lifesaver Jellybeans 2.25 oz $1.00
Glade Scented Oil Warmer (base only) $1.19 (made $0.31)
Birthday card for Nicholas $3.00 (cardstore.com)
4 boxes Eggo Wafflers $10.00
2 Revlon Colorstay Mineral Lipglaze $8.00 (copius.com)
Carefree pantyliners $0.99
Victoria Secret Panties $10.50 (thanks to my AWESOME sister-in-law who picked these up & surprised me with them when I said she should keep the freebie coupon!)
2 Reams of pastel papers from Staples $17.58 (thanks to the freebie rebate forms!)
2 free Amazon MP3 downloads $2.00

March has been my biggest freebie month so far. I was able to get $54.26 worth of items for free & this doesn't even include the number of free Pixel of Ink books that I downloaded for my Kindle. Plus, I even made $0.31! I'm super excited about this months fun finds & can't wait to see what next month brings. So far I'm scoping out Glade room fresheners & glasses cleaner with cloth....We shall see if I'm able to acquire these items in my April freebie hunt!