Emma and I were playing store. She was the clerk and I was the customer. She would give me a stamp on my hand. John came up for a stamp, received one and left. Emma turned to me and said, "John is a sensitive man!"
John told me today that he wanted to play store. I asked him what kind of store he wanted to have. He told me, "LDS Tools. We are going to have tools to do work." LDS Tools is an application for mobile phones that is essentially a ward directory.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Friends
We took Emma to ballet yesterday and John and I waited in the waiting room. There was another mom with a little girl who was probably 2 years old. She didn't talk much. John and this girl would kind a play next to each other and eye each others food and toys. Finally John walks up to her and says, "I think you are looking for me because I am the only one who isn't dancing!" She looked at him and went back to what she was doing. It was obvious to John that he was the ideal playmate and here he was in all of his glory!
April Fool's Day
Today was my big Holiday of the year (so far). I have been planning and scheming for weeks now. Mostly because I know that Emma would love to have tricks played on her.
It started last night when Emma and I swapped out Aaron's shoe laces on his workout shoes with some camouflage ones. I thought he would put his shoes on during lunch time for the first time to go play basketball. This morning I was laying in bed and hear Aaron start laughing in the foyer. So I came out and took a picture.
Also last night I put mustaches on the kids. Emma giggled when she saw it and then really wanted to take it off. I made her keep it on because I knew that it would help John to not be upset if he saw one on Emma. Sure enough John was not thrilled when he saw his. He obliged me and smiled for the camera but make no mistake, he let me know he didn't like it and wanted it off.
Emma decided to play a trick on me so she made a sign for me that said April Fool's Day was over. I thought it was pretty creative!
Also last night I put a pair of undies on gorilla. That crossed a line with John and he took them off right away. He also let me know that was not ok. So by about the first 5 minutes into the morning, John was pretty cheesed off. I was a little worried because those were pretty benign.
Next I lined up some of their stuffed animals like they were waiting to use the bathroom. That lightened the mood a little. They giggled at that and then we went downstairs for breakfast. I had frozen their cereal in milk the night before. They were very confused and kept wacking the cereal with their spoon. Emma giggled and John was mad. So I got them their real breakfast.
We got ready to leave for our Easter egg hunt and I had the kids put on their shoes. I had stuffed toilet paper in their shoes. This is where John started to lighten up about the whole tricks thing. He would alternate between laughing and telling me he didn't like it. But in the end, he thought it was funny. Emma liked it from the beginning. She was a good sport about all of the tricks.
At the Easter egg hunt I didn't do any tricks. People from the ward came with their kids and everyone brought 12 eggs per kid and we did the hunt and the kids played on the playground. It went over very well. I told the kids that we would eat candy after we had lunch. John listened and even told another mom that she should eat her candy after she had her lunch. It was pretty funny. He actually stuck to it. Emma was another story. She ran off with a friend and ate some. After lunch, I let them eat quite a bit of candy (for me - for any other mom, no biggie). Later that day Emma came to me and said she didn't feel well and that she ate too much candy. She asked me why I let her eat so much candy. I explained that if I had stopped her she would have been mad at me and she wouldn't have learned this lesson. (Note: she didn't really learn it as evidenced later in the story.) I think she wasn't convinced.
We came home from the egg hunt and I offered the kids an Oreo cookie. They were beyond excited and shocked that I bought cookies!! They were giddy! I had replaced the filling of 2 Oreos with a mixture of toothpaste and cornstarch. It looked amazing if I do say so myself. John got to the cream filling first, made a contorted face and asked for water. Emma finally got to the cream filling and immediately asked for water. I think she would have kept eating if I hadn't stopped her and told her it was a joke. I don't think her mind could reconcile the fact that this was supposed to be a delicious cookie and it wasn't. So I gave them a real cookie and they hesitantly ate it. They might be suspicious of Oreos for a while.
When I took Emma up for quiet time she walked in her room and asked me what I had done to her room. Mission accomplished - I had made her paranoid!
For dinner I told the kids that we were having cake and they came running. They start to eat the cake which was really cheese, spinach, and ham inside of pizza crust balls baked in a bundt pan (so it was like pizza monkey bread). They started eating it and make no comments on "hey, this isn't cake." Instead they just look a little confused and keep eating. I had to be the one to say, "So this isn't cake! April Fool's!" Once John saw the ham he refused to eat the pizza. Emma ate it fine but didn't comment much. Her stomach was still too upset to eat dessert which was spiralized apples and carmel sauce that was made to look like pasta and sauce. She was however fully recovered a few minutes later to ask for some candy from her Halloween bag.
I ran across and idea for Aaron to do at work. I bought M&M's, Reeses pieces, and Skittles and he mixed them all together in a bowl and put it out on a table at work. He over heard a couple of ladies discussing it. One made the comment, "Who would do that??" He also took them to mutual tonight.
Overall, Aaron asked the kids what their favorite day was, and John said, "Eater-April Fools Day!" My guess is that if Christmas was yesterday, that answer would have been different. By the end of the day, he thought the pranks were funny. Emma liked her breakfast the best and was a great sport about all of the pranks.
It started last night when Emma and I swapped out Aaron's shoe laces on his workout shoes with some camouflage ones. I thought he would put his shoes on during lunch time for the first time to go play basketball. This morning I was laying in bed and hear Aaron start laughing in the foyer. So I came out and took a picture.
Also last night I put mustaches on the kids. Emma giggled when she saw it and then really wanted to take it off. I made her keep it on because I knew that it would help John to not be upset if he saw one on Emma. Sure enough John was not thrilled when he saw his. He obliged me and smiled for the camera but make no mistake, he let me know he didn't like it and wanted it off.
Emma decided to play a trick on me so she made a sign for me that said April Fool's Day was over. I thought it was pretty creative!
Also last night I put a pair of undies on gorilla. That crossed a line with John and he took them off right away. He also let me know that was not ok. So by about the first 5 minutes into the morning, John was pretty cheesed off. I was a little worried because those were pretty benign.
Next I lined up some of their stuffed animals like they were waiting to use the bathroom. That lightened the mood a little. They giggled at that and then we went downstairs for breakfast. I had frozen their cereal in milk the night before. They were very confused and kept wacking the cereal with their spoon. Emma giggled and John was mad. So I got them their real breakfast.
We got ready to leave for our Easter egg hunt and I had the kids put on their shoes. I had stuffed toilet paper in their shoes. This is where John started to lighten up about the whole tricks thing. He would alternate between laughing and telling me he didn't like it. But in the end, he thought it was funny. Emma liked it from the beginning. She was a good sport about all of the tricks.
At the Easter egg hunt I didn't do any tricks. People from the ward came with their kids and everyone brought 12 eggs per kid and we did the hunt and the kids played on the playground. It went over very well. I told the kids that we would eat candy after we had lunch. John listened and even told another mom that she should eat her candy after she had her lunch. It was pretty funny. He actually stuck to it. Emma was another story. She ran off with a friend and ate some. After lunch, I let them eat quite a bit of candy (for me - for any other mom, no biggie). Later that day Emma came to me and said she didn't feel well and that she ate too much candy. She asked me why I let her eat so much candy. I explained that if I had stopped her she would have been mad at me and she wouldn't have learned this lesson. (Note: she didn't really learn it as evidenced later in the story.) I think she wasn't convinced.
We came home from the egg hunt and I offered the kids an Oreo cookie. They were beyond excited and shocked that I bought cookies!! They were giddy! I had replaced the filling of 2 Oreos with a mixture of toothpaste and cornstarch. It looked amazing if I do say so myself. John got to the cream filling first, made a contorted face and asked for water. Emma finally got to the cream filling and immediately asked for water. I think she would have kept eating if I hadn't stopped her and told her it was a joke. I don't think her mind could reconcile the fact that this was supposed to be a delicious cookie and it wasn't. So I gave them a real cookie and they hesitantly ate it. They might be suspicious of Oreos for a while.
When I took Emma up for quiet time she walked in her room and asked me what I had done to her room. Mission accomplished - I had made her paranoid!
For dinner I told the kids that we were having cake and they came running. They start to eat the cake which was really cheese, spinach, and ham inside of pizza crust balls baked in a bundt pan (so it was like pizza monkey bread). They started eating it and make no comments on "hey, this isn't cake." Instead they just look a little confused and keep eating. I had to be the one to say, "So this isn't cake! April Fool's!" Once John saw the ham he refused to eat the pizza. Emma ate it fine but didn't comment much. Her stomach was still too upset to eat dessert which was spiralized apples and carmel sauce that was made to look like pasta and sauce. She was however fully recovered a few minutes later to ask for some candy from her Halloween bag.
I ran across and idea for Aaron to do at work. I bought M&M's, Reeses pieces, and Skittles and he mixed them all together in a bowl and put it out on a table at work. He over heard a couple of ladies discussing it. One made the comment, "Who would do that??" He also took them to mutual tonight.
Overall, Aaron asked the kids what their favorite day was, and John said, "Eater-April Fools Day!" My guess is that if Christmas was yesterday, that answer would have been different. By the end of the day, he thought the pranks were funny. Emma liked her breakfast the best and was a great sport about all of the pranks.
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