April Fool's

Thursday, April 1

Today was a raging success. I mean, it was our first April Fool's Celebration ever, so the bar was pretty low. In fact, the girlies didn't even know April Fool's was a thing til they saw me wearing one of Dallas' polo shirts backward. I thought of wearing one of my shirts backward, but it wouldn't be obvious enough, so I opted for wearing Dallas' clothes backward. They were also ultra surprised to open their closet and find MY CLOTHES hanging in there. They giggled and then quickly ran over to my closet and voila, there were their clothes. 

I hadn't really done much at that point and still wasn't sure how much I would do, but when I saw how much they liked it, I figured I should do more. Especially when they started opening all their drawers and checking all the rooms to see what else had been switched around. So when they weren't paying attention, I switched around our sock drawers. And then I quickly made their beds, but backwards. That's April Fools-y, right? Then, I whipped out a marker and wrote some notes on the toilet paper. I only did one note at first, but then the other girls got excited and wanted to see what other notes were on the toilet paper - so once again, I distracted them while I wrote some more notes. Phew. That was a close one. 

Off to breakfast! On the way downstairs the girlies were talking about checking to see what was switched around on the main floor. Doo doo doo. I definitely had NOT switched anything around down there. I got them coloring and switched up a few drawers. And then brought them over for breakfast. We had some leftover banana muffins so I grabbed three and stuck a candle in each one. Then we lit the candle and sang, "Happy April Fool's To You". That was a hit. But of course, our girlies are suckers for banana muffins with or without a candle. Then I told them we could have some cereal. I know - this is classic April Fool's joke, but it works great. I pulled out the Cinnamon Toast Crunch and poured it and out came Rice Krispies! Magical. Honestly, our girlies love Rice Krispies as well so not really a big deal, but still fun.

The girlies started talking about checking the basement and I was like, "Aww man, I haven't done anything down there." I let them know that April Fool's can happen all throughout the day - that way I didn't feel like I had to get it all done right away. I figured I wouldn't worry about the basement - it was too much. I did have some plans for lunch though. Again, nothing crazy, but the girls would eat it up. Literally. Haha. I crack myself up. 

Lunch was "ostrich eggs" with "pumpkin pie" and then we had some noodles... just cause. It was simple but fun and my appetite for doing fun things for April Fool's has definitely been whet.

At that point I kind of forgot about April Fool's. I had been planning on talking in Pig Latin or rhyme for some part of the day but that didn't happen. I wasn't really sure what to do for dinner and was almost too late to do anything when Dallas assured me we could just make a "miniature" dinner and the girlies would love that. They did. Phew. Another close one.