Dash and I decided with St. Patrick's Day coming up, 

that we would try to catch a Leprechaun!

I loved watching him use his imagination, and items around the house, to create the perfect Leprechaun trap! 

The rainbow, green decorations, and gold pieces were the bait.

The paper over the box was flimsy so when that Leprechaun climbed up the ladder and stepped onto the paper, he'd slip into the box and be trapped!

But, those little Leprechauns are sneaky!

He got away!

But, he left Dash a note explaining how we managed to not get caught AND he was so impressed with Dash's creative trap that he hid eight pieces of (chocolate) gold around the house.  The only clue was that they were hidden around his favorite color.

Dash loved searching all the green items in our house until he found them!

I think we started another holiday tradition. 

 I wonder if next year I'll have to constantly answer the question,  

"Are Leprechauns real?" 

 as I did this year?  

I think the idea of one sneaking into our house at night freaked Dash out but each time I reminded him that it was pretend and we were just being silly, 

he got totally into it!

 Me lad had a good ole' time with this St. Patty's tradition!