Thursday, April 10, 2008

April Fools. . . on me!

So my darling daughter thought that it would be funny to play a few practical jokes on some of our neighbors. (By the way, I have NO idea where she became aware that it is funny to do things to other people that live on our street. I have NEVER heard of such a thing!)

So she found a baby shower invitation and filled it out for some made up person and delivered it to Pam. She thought it was a delightfully funny joke. Then she gets this idea to cover herself in large, red dots as if she has some measles-like disease. Then she would run over to Cathy's house to expose all of her children to this disease, as seen here:





I thought it was a pretty standard April Fools Joke. Heck, I think I did something similar when I was that age. At any rate, all was well until the next morning when we were running late for school and realized that Addie was a spotted mess. So we rush through the shower, only to find out that the marker she picked out was not budging. It was a non-washable marker. So after convincing her that it would wear off (and trying to remove it with everything under the sink- including bleach and the magic eraser. . . I know, but she was fine) she was off to school.

The best part of my day was yet to come. Why you ask? Because at 10:30 my phone rang. It was Addison. Spring School pictures and whole class pictures were that day, unbeknown to me. Yup, I am NOT lying. What a GREAT day to take a picture. And yes, I will be buying the whole package, since it will come in handy later in her life, perhaps when she's dating. I will post the picture as soon as I get it.

4 comments:

pamela said...

you know what i have to admit here...for a second i thought maybe the shower invitaion was real and it was for me....

and post the picture as soon as you get it.

jodi said...

I think this story needs to be sent into Readers Digest.

Anonymous said...

That is hilarious! I guess the joke was on Addison. You'll have to post that picture when you get it back. So funny!

cathy said...

like mother like daughter....how come you never have red dots on your face after your practical jokes?!?!?!?