Weekend Goodness- Baby Shower and Irish Dancing Edition

Friday:

I know it's not the weekend, and it was actually during the school day, but it was too cute/fun not to share! 

We had a mini "Irish Fest" on Friday for some of my 4K kids and some of the daycare kids from the daycare next to my school. Although Rosie hasn't Irish danced in a really long time, she came to dance for the kids since I couldn't do a whole lot of that :) 

The kids loved it! Even the really little ones watched quietly and nicely :)
Rosie did a jig, reel, and hornpipe (and then jig again because it was requested by the little ones) by herself. I joined her for a quick treble reel. 

I did "St. Patrick's Day" by myself.
Man, was it hard work! Whew!
Rosie said all the moms and teachers watching were worried that I was going to go into labor :) 

After all the really little kids left, Rosie and I taught the 4K kids a jig.
They were adorable! 

 The best part of Friday: My niece and nephew were born! Evelyn and Jack :) They live about 6 hours away, so I won't get to meet them for a while :( But the pictures I have seen are adorable. I am SO excited they were born and that they are healthy! Happy birthday, little babies :)



Saturday:
My  mom came over in the morning and helped me organize the nursery. I'll post pictures of it soon! Saturday afternoon was filled with more baby things- Dan's side of the family had a baby shower for us. The theme was "Welcome to the World, Little One"

Dan was fishing all weekend with friends, so I left all the baby shower gifts at his moms because it would be too hard for me to bring them all home. I had nothing to organize that afternoon but felt like I needed to do something. I decided a good 'something' would be to look at baby clothes and get a cinnabon. It went well- I found 2 cute little newborn-sized outfits and a women in front of me in line at cinnabon turned around and said "Oh you just look adorable! Your belly is so cute!" :)

Sunday:
My mom and I went to a baby consignment store. It was okay- there wasn't a very good selection of things. I did a million loads of laundry when I got home and then waited for Dan to get home from fishing. Once he did, we picked up the shower gifts from his mom's and I organized them. It was good/busy/tiring weekend!


Only 2 more weeks until spring break! I am so ready for it!

Weekend Goodness: St. Paddy's Day Edition

Look at that big basketball belly :) 

The weather was SO nice on Friday! 

So Dan and I went for a walk and got some frozen yogurt. Mmmm!

This Saturday was the St. Paddy's day parade.
I love parades!
The weather was perfect, I was with people I love, and we managed to get a great spot! 

My mom was in the parade with Wee Seamus :) 

And my dad was in the parade with the Milwaukee Hurling Club
(I didn't get any good during-parade-pics of him though)

Dan and I made reuben rolls post-parade. 

They were a delish afternoon snack

I also got some strawberry rhubarb pie (not homemade this time) in honor of Pi day!
I thought it was cool that it was 3.1415 this year :) 

 Somebody (Meagan) strategically placed little vikings around our house that we have been finding randomly :) 

Dan and I took Maggie and Nella for their first nice, long walk of the season.
They were wiped out afterwards! It was great :) 

Happy almost St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Paddy's Day!

This is how I looked when I met my classes in the hallway to pick them up:

Their reactions ranged from silently staring at my hair, to asking if it was my birthday, to being freaked out. One little guy (who is an english language learner/ spanish speaker) kept saying "wooaah! real?" with a frightened look on his face. Once he got past my major change in hairstyles, he noticed my "crown". For the rest of the day, he would say things like, "Ms. McElwee- Crown. You princess!"  

I invited the kindergarten classes to my room to watch me dance for my morning class. I don't think 4 classes of little ones have ever been quieter. I might need to wear my Irish dance stuff to school every day :) The afternoon class got to watch my mini Irish dance lesson with their 4th grade book buddies. The 4th grade teacher told me that all of her boys tried to do the jig when they got back to their classroom. It was really fun to watch a bunch of kids learn about something they have never seen before.  It was also fun breaking out all of my dance gear again :) 

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

Happy 30th anniversary, mom and dad! 

Weekend Goodness- St. Pat's Edition

I know this is blurry-he is such a wiggly puppy!
 He's 6 months old and still growing! 

Corned Beef and Cabbage: round one.  

The sunsets at my parents' house really are the best. 

My parents' 30th anniversary is on the 17th. We had as many people as we could write them a poem and then put those poems in a book with photos from their 30 years together. They loved it! 

I got to see my brother for a little while this weekend! Between college and random trips, he's a hard guy to see :)

3 of the 4 sisters on parade day! 

Possibly a leprechaun

Scotch Eggs for breakfast mmmmm

My spring break is over- back to school for St. Paddy's Day tomorrow!