A monster is on the lose in our house. I'm not sure if his name is AJ or Jeff.
The sneaky creature was unleashed Wednesday night. AJ, upset that St. Patrick's Day had passed without a single leprechaun sighting, took matters into his own hands. He'd gotten a tiny leprechaun hat at school that day, and decided to use it as bait to catch the real thing.
Jeff saw this and couldn't pass up the opportunity to mess with AJ. He took the hat and closed the trap.
The next morning, AJ was excited to see his trap worked... until he opened it and found it empty. That sneaky leprechaun! With Jeff's encouragement, AJ set the trap again Friday night. This time, using to more elaborate plan and new bait. It included a note taped to the dining room floor.
Allow me to decipher: If you want my gold, you have to go to the living room.
There, just outside the trap, AJ placed out some "gold" from his Playmobil pirates. Inside, he taped a sampling of Lucky Charms marshmallows. The trap, by the way, consists of a Playmobil carrying case, propped open with his Chuck E. Cheese air rocket handle.
By morning, the hat was back in the trap, along with a new note:
I seem to recognize that writing, but so far AJ doesn't. Perhaps because he's already focusing on his next move.
"Mom, do we have a box? A small one? And some string?"
A new trap now awaits that tricky little green guy. I can't wait to see what happens next.
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