April Fools!

Each year on April 1st, Matt and I always try to play a joke on our kiddos, like any good parent should. This year I had come up with a joke a few months in advance and tried my hardest not to forget it. There are the run of the mill jokes that everyone uses on occasion and jokes that will make people pee their pants due to being frightened half to death, and there are also the funny harmless jokes. I usually like the jokes that are harmless but funny, I am keeping in mind that someday these jokes will be done to me. I am not big on the scare factor thing unless someone is hiding around a corner, something simple. I have never been a scary, mask wearing jokester type. This year we got the girls so excited. They were going to get to eat their dessert first!! Since taking pictures is pretty much a normal everyday occurrence, they never questioned why I was taking pictures of them! They started to dig in...and nothing happened. They licked their forks and said the frosting was yummy. It took two or three tries to get a piece of cake on their forks before they finally realized something might be wrong. Apryl says to me very politely, "I think your cake is a little hard mommy." I just encouraged her to try again, "are you trying to insult me??". After a few stabs at the cake they were laughing and just wondering what the heck they were attempting to eat. Alexys was so close when she said it was paper towels. I turned the cake upside down to show them that it was a roll of toilet paper. They were both good sports and laughed about it. This prank then made Apryl eager to pull it on Addysen. Poor Addy did not understand at all what was wrong with her cake. She even asked me this morning for another piece! I kept telling her that it was only toilet paper, and she would just repeat, "toilet paper?". Now to think of a new joke for next year!