Lucky 2 Dollars

My mom sent each of the kids cards for St Patrick's Day.

Inside the cards were a sheet of stickers.

And a $2 bill.

They could not believe their luck!

Yes, somehow even the baby understood how special it was.

She had a sweet brother that gently showed her how to open her card,

Take out her stickers,

And her lucky bill.

Here I was, all prepped to tell him 

"Please let Macie have it, you have yours and she has hers,"

But I needn't have had the thought.

He carefully handed it to her,

And even let her hold his for a time.

(A short time.)

Then he sat there and showed her all of the words in his card.

And all of the words in hers.

Meanwhile Charlie was saying

"Take a picture of me mom!"

"Please take a picture of me!"

"Mom!"

So I took a picture of him.

Ephram started playing peek-a-boo two dollar style.

And then Charlie,

"Look!  It really is lucky!  See how it stays on top of just one finger?"

Ephram,

"Ah!  Oh!  Ya-ya (Ephram)!"

And so there were some amazing two dollar bill balancing feats.

And here I thought we were just opening a few cards.

But we had more than an hour of "lucky" fun.

The next day,

While I was vacuuming upstairs,

Ephram wanted to do some art.

So I took out some paper,

And some crayons,

And gave him his card so that he could use his stickers.

When I came back he was so incredibly proud to show me this.

He used all of those stickers to stick that two dollar bill right to the page.

I guess, when you're three, a lucky two dollar bill

Makes for a great piece of art.