baby kate celebrates the luck of the irish

Every year my grandma hosts an elaborate Saint Patrick's Day party.  The meal is complete with corned beef and cabbage, carrots and potatoes, and this year a fruity rainbow that led to a pot of golden peanut butter cups.

I am not a huge fan of corned beef but I am definitely on board when it comes to cabbage and potatoes.  Apparently, Katelyn is too.

Her favorite dish of the night was lime green jello salad with juicy pears.  Katelyn loves pears.  She had never tasted jello but fell in love with it.  She is LDS so it must be part of her religious DNA, right?

After dinner, we all sat around in the living room talking when out of the corner of my eye, I saw two mallard ducks swimming by.  Katelyn's latest obsessions are Justin Timberlake and birds.  Her next favorite thing are fish.  Ducks are like fish and birds combined so we all ran out with a loaf of bread to feed them.

The mallards never did get very close to us but these ugly ducklings swam right up for a carbohydrate feast and Katelyn was delighted.  She kept trying to squirm out of our arms to join them for a swim.

She was so desperate to get down that we walked over to the grass to let her crawl around.  Freedom!

At least until she started eating leaves. :)