Wednesday, April 1, 2009

The April Fool

So the kids were all excited about April Fool's Day. Last night they were scheming about doing "funny" things to their teachers and here at home. Two of the girls followed through on their plans. Becky spotted herself with a washable red marker, so she looked like she had a pronounced case of the pox. (Can you say overdone?) She hammed it up and her teacher took it in stride, telling her to get away so she wouldn't get sick too.

Alicia had a more subtle approach. She asked for an envelope and gave her teacher a "note" that had a blank sheet inside. ha ha, ha, ha ... ha.... Yeah, I don't get it either. But she was happy to have been a part of this special day.

I didn't do much at all. Just a little blue food dye in the water pitcher, which Katie loved. I told them it was diet Kool-Aid when they thought it was real Kool-Aid.

Becky, in all her 10-yr.-old wisdom, decided to fool herself. Drawing from Troy's punking of Dad last year (which was not too successful), she dumped Kool-Aid powder on her OWN towel and then got it all over herself after her shower. Needless to say, she was red, and she showered again. She was still red. And then I gave her 10 minutes to clean the bathroom and take everything tainted to the laundry room. AHEM. Ah well, what can you do? Just keep laughing.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny, funny girls.

Marcy in TX said...

cute, thank goodness our girls are thru with these type of jokes... :)

Wendy said...

I can handle those kinds of jokes. Usually I just pretend April Fools never happens. My students have learned not to try pranks because I just get grumpy. But cute pranks are just right!

Mrs. White's library world said...

Your girls are hilarious and red.