April Fools

I began today by teaching the boys about April Fools Day. My mom was famous for waking us up really early with some outrageous claim of snow fall or a hot air balloon landing in our back yard.  It was often too early to think logically and by the time we were peering out the back door, we knew we'd been had.  Wes and Nate are little enough still that they will believe just about anything and quickly fell for my stories.  Soon enough they caught on to the fun of this day and started making up stories of their own.  All day Wes was yelling things like, "Watch out Mommy, there's a dinosaur/monster/giant baby, behind you!" and would exclaim, "April Fools!" when I acted scared.  Nate followed right along and would exclaim just what he had heard his brother yell moments before.  My favorite of the day was, "Look out Mommy, there's an army of dancing koala bears coming!".  I didn't know if I should be scared or get up and dance along.