April Fool's!

Yesterday was April 1st – April Fool’s Day. Eliot really got into it. All the way home he would tell me things (“there’s a dinosaur headed straight toward us!”) followed almost immediately by a very sing-songey “APRIL FOOL’S!” After several of these, I told him that he needed to work on his story a little bit. You know, add a little more meat to it.

So later that evening we were eating dinner. Eliot said, “Hey Daddy, you know what? A real live ALIEN came to my school today!” “Really?” said Daddy. “Yes, and he had one eye and a square belly and two antennas on his head. And he was purple and green, and orange hair and a big, huge mouth. And he went from classroom to classroom eating all of the snacks. I was holding my fork like this! Then all of a sudden the alien snatched it from me. Nobody got to eat their oranges from the Babybirds to the Wildflowers.” After Brian had made sufficient “wow’s” and “no way’s” then Eliot sang out “APRIL FOOL’S!” Now that’s what I call meat!