April Fools Day!

Do you prank your kids? Today reasserts our very obvious family trait...we are not morning people, don't mess with us before noon. HA as f that would stop me from  a least a couple little pranks. We started the day off with cereal as we do most mornings...except today it was frozen. My first victim thought it was horrible...until he got to turn around and repeat it for his little brother, then it was hilarious...to us at least.

So of course I told them I would make them their favorite foods for lunch ;) a jelly donut for the big green monkey and waffles for the little blue monkey.  Again they were not happy with the catch that came with it but laughed afterwards when comparing stories.

Jelly Donut

In this lunch :

• Jelly Donut - Jelly sandwich, rolled bread, filled with jelly, dusted with sugar
• HA - Trader Joe's Schoolhouse cookies
• Wormy apple - gummy worm in apple
• Carrots with 1st pick and ranch dip

Waffles for lunch

In this lunch :

• Waffles - Peanut butter and jelly inside
• Wormy apple - gummy worm in an apple
• Carrots with smiley face ring

 Didn't get a chance to prank dinner, so saving those ideas for next year. I hope you all had some fun today, without hurting anyone's feelings of course. Last year I only pranked breakfast and he was less than thrilled...it still makes me laugh.

April Fools Day 2013

April Fool's Day

Well it's April Fool's day, and while I loved it as a kid I haven't had a chance to play pranks in years due to a lack of willing participants. I was hoping my 6 year old would be ready this year...but no...at least not at 6am. The plan was simple, breakfast I gave him a fork instead of a spoon to eat his cereal, but in his groggy haze of forced awakening he was....not amused, nah that's too nice, he was angry. He stomped off back to bed and dug in under his blankets.

"MOM! You gave me a fork!"
"Ha ha April Fool's!"
"Ugh I hate April Fool's! I am not celebrating"...stomp stomp stomp
  He did come back out and finish breakfast with a spoon.

Needless to say my next prank is being put away until next year. I wanted to bento last night's dinner...which he wouldn't even try, and show it to him as his lunch today. Then after the drama sure to ensue I'd show him the real one....but one tantrum is enough for any morning so I kept that to myself. ;)

I hope all of you had more fun today! He did warm up and attempt to tell jokes at school but his stand-up routine isn't very polished yet.

Doctor Who Premier - The Bells of St. John

We had a great time watching it yesterday as a family so I made a quick version this morning. 

In this lunch :

• Wifi cloud of alphabet pretzels
• The Doctor uploading (Blue streaming data) with red fez and bowtie peanut butter and jelly
• Cucumber slices with Wifi cut out of the middles
• Grapes

Walking Dead Season Finale - Zombie Braaains 

(Mommy lunch - Kids do NOT watch this show)

In this lunch :

• Brain matter - Leftover spaghetti squash mixed with a little red food coloring, I should have gone darker but wanted to taste the squash.
• Walker - Provolone cheese
• Clementine orange
• Leftover broccoli steamed with provolone scraps from the food art

Such a fun weekend for Geek TV. Got to welcome back Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, and say good-bye to The Walking Dead until next season. How did you spend Easter? :) Oh right Easter! Yes we did that too! I'll post that separately though, stay tuned! I promise it was totally G-rated.