April made a fool out of me...

April Fools day is one of my very favorite holidays. I have loved it as long as I can remember. Every year I play pranks on people, and love it! I plan out in advance to have several pranks to play on each person in the house. I have old traditions, and several new ones to try. But today it seemed that the fool was me.
I should have known it was going to be a day when at 2:30am I was awakened from a dead sleep (Really, I had just gone to bed an hour earlier-thank you very much ETHAN-, and was dead to the world) by Ethan Screaming "IT'S SNOWING!!!"
"What the ...?! WHO CARES if it is snowing at 2:30 in the morning? It has been snowing every single morning this week!" (I get grouchy when my heart is beating out of my chest)
Apparently Ethan cares because he got up several times each hour for the rest of the night to be sure it was still snowing.
Anyway finally about 5:00 I got his settled down and drifted off to sleep myself only to be woken up at 6:00 by my sweet heart, sure that because he has to be up that early everyone else must be too. He let me in on the news, because Obama is the first Black President they decided that each state had to name a city after him, and guess which one Utah chose? You guessed it, I now live in Barak City. "April Fools" He had me going for about a second, but the poor guy can't tell a joke to save his life. He giggles. It's a curse on days like today. It was a good effort though. He usually doesn't even bother. I think he did it to flirt with me, what a turn on. OOOO, what a stud, YU-MEEE!
Okay, back on track...
I had a few tricks up my sleeve for today.
I dyed the toilet water. Adia won't go. Seriously, I think she has been holding it all day.

Last night I sewed the legs of their pants closed so that when they went to put them on they couldn't. I expected it to be hilarious, but instead they just ran around in their underpants all morning until Ethan nearly missed the bus.

I dyed the milk green, and when I poured it into their cereal bowls I said "Uh Oh, it looks like the milk went bad. Oh well, we don't have any fresh milk, so just eat it and hope you don't get sick."

Here's what I got:

And no one ate anything. Later I found Adia eating a cracker she found under the bed...

For lunch I made Ethan a sandwich with bugs in it. (Raisins) He threw it in the trash and convinced his teacher to let him eat school lunch.

I tried the same thing on Adia, but she told me that she wanted something else because she couldn't find anymore crackers under the bed, and she was hungry!

When Ethan got home I had rubber-banded the handle of the sprayer on our kitchen sink so when he turned on the water it would spray him, and then I asked him to get me a glass of water. But he's too short, and it shot right over his head. He didn't even notice what was happening, so he didn't turn it off right away. I ended up having to turn it off myself. I got drenched, and then I had to clean up my flooded kitchen.

I tried a few other things that pretty much ended up the same way. In fact the only thing the kids really enjoyed was the dirt cups we do every year for dessert. (we usually do gumdrop flowers, but in the spirit of Ethan's No-sugar diet we decided to make a fruit version of it. I'm positive it canceled out all of the sugar in the pudding, the crumbled up Oreo cookies, and the gummy worms, right:)

Finally at bed time Adia got the hang of it. She put her night dress on upside down and yelled "April Fools!" That's my girl...