April Fools

My mom and dad came down the day before my surgery to help with the kids. My mom was here with me from Monday to Sunday, and I really cannot tell you how wonderful that was. There is nothing like having your mom around when you are sick or incapacitated. She took Sareny to and from school each day, made lunches, did laundry and dishes, entertained the other two kids, made dinner, took the kids to the park and countless other things. I was able to nap, rest, and recover without worrying about anything.

Friday morning we realized it was April Fool's day, so we hurriedly made some fun plans to trick the kids. I made a pitcher of koolaid but poured jello jigglers into cups, inserted straws, and let them set up for several hours.

My mom made these adorable "vegetable" cupcakes. She told the kids she had noticed they weren't eating

enough vegetables, so she had come up with a fun way for them to eat them.

These are really orange starbursts cut into fourths and green jelly beans cut in half. We wanted to use green runts, but substituted the jelly beans when runts were unavailable. For dinner we made sweet fire chicken. Nothing tricky here, just trying to make a little 4 year old boy happy who, when we asked him what he wanted for breakfast, went into the pantry, brought out the sweet fire sauce, and begged for that for breakfast. Funny kid.

Isaac really tried to drink some Koolaid.

Eventually, he figured it out.

Sareny claimed she had been completely unfooled by everything and had spotted it all right off.

Possibly mom snapping your picture at dinner might have been a dead giveaway...