Fools

We like April Fool's Day. This morning a few little tricks were conceived. Kennedi decided to wrap her hand to look like she had hurt it. She was excited to trick the kids at school. She said everybody fell for it. :) Ellie got little stickers on her ears to look like her ears were pierced.


Brayden came up with the grand idea of recording his piano practicing with his MP3 player and played it back on some speakers. I was upstairs and really did think it was him practicing. :)

We got home after school and I was complaining that it felt cold in the house. Later I went to turn the temperature up and noticed someone had lowered the heat! Brayden!!! He thinks he is so funny.

Then Mother Nature decided to fool us and start hailing, thundering and snowing. Ummm, no, I don't think so!

My favorite part of April Fool's Day is our family dinner. It is a tradition that was started when I was a kid.(Thanks Mom!) Every year everyone in the family gets to pick one thing for dinner. They secretly tell me what their choice is and I do the rest. The kids absolutely love it and it is fun to see what kind of meal we come up with. To make it more exciting, we eat with weird utensils. We eat off cutting boards, lids, or pans. We drink out of jars, measuring cups, etc. We eat with spatulas, ice cream scoopers, tongs and whatever else we can find. Then to top it off we wear funny hats.

This years menu was:
Taft- Chicken and pineapple skewers (too bad we couldn't grill the chicken on the BBQ grill!)
Me- Deviled eggs
Brayden- Chocolate cake
Kennedi- Peach Cobbler
Carter- Bagel Bites
Ellie- veggies and cherry limeade (okay, so I picked for her because she just couldn't wrap her brain around the idea and I thought we needed something healthy on the side)

Happy April Fool's Day!