April Fool's

For April Fool's day Addy was determined to play a trick on each person in the family. She spent a lot of time thinking about each person's trick. Even though she wanted to do a trick, she had a little bit of a struggle about how to do it. If it involved be untruthful, she kept telling me, "but that is lying and we don't lie!" I told her it was ok one this one day to tell a little white lie as long as you can follow it up with telling them "April Fools!" She wasn't sure, but decided it might be necessary. 

For Cameron's trick she decided to tell him that there was a real live monkey at the birthday party she went to at a gymnastic's studio. She said the monkey was on the monkey bars and he was doing tricks. At first Cameron immediately said, "you're joking, this is an April Fool's joke!" But Addy stuck with it and did a great job convincing Cameron and had very elaborate stories about the monkey. The best part was when we got home they told Brian and he also wasn't sure what to make of it and later asked me "was their really a monkey at this party?" But Addy had a different joke in mind for Brian. She really wanted to do something to his food. She was going to put a bunch of pepper in a sandwich, but then decided to put sugar on his potatoes for dinner. I did it and tried to make it look like salt, but maybe put a bit too much on. He didn't notice though! He ate all of the potatoes and then Addy told him about the joke and yelled April Fools. 

The best joke she played was probably on me. This morning I came downstairs and there was a cup of coffee in my mug on the counter with a note that said, "A cup of coffee for Mommy, compliments of Addy, enjoy." I had programmed the coffee maker the night before, and I was so happy to see a cup was already waiting for me. I picked it up, took and sip and then immediately spit it out! It was old, cold coffee! Addy had gotten Brian to make coffee the night before so he could leave it out for me. She got me good that little April Fool's joker!