April Fools is FUN!!

At our house, April Fools Day is right up there with birthdays and Christmas. My kids LOVE IT! Lucy and Elliott let Mike know that they wanted to be good and pranked on April Fools Day, so we tried to oblige. We used some saran wrap to give the kids some pranks, some balloons stuck in doors to startle Dad, Mike rubberbanded the faucet nozzle to spray me and lucy, and we made some April Fools Day treats--my favorite part. Usually, we make candy sushi, but this year, it just seemed like too much work, so we made fake burgers and fries instead:

They're Nilla Wafer buns, brownie burgers, dyed coconut lettuce, sesame seeds corn syrup-glued on, and frosting condiments. The fries are sliced pound cake broiled in the oven. I downloaded the trays and fry bags from the internet and put them together. They turned out pretty cute, and the kids had fun putting them together with the Wilson cousins.

And now, onto a brief Archie update. He is a crawling fool lately, and he is busy! His favorite thing to do is to roll anything--cup, ball, lid--on the ground and chase them around. He also just learned to pull himself up on things, but he hasn't learned to let himself down, so we get a lot of calls for help.

Which brings me to his next milestone...his first word!!! Sort of. His first sign language word: "more". He signs while saying, "Muh Muh", so it kind of is his first word too. Here is a picture of him signing it.

He can also sign "help", "finished" and "drink". HE'S A GENIUS!! Until he starts his next hobby...crawling into the tightest spaces he can find and getting stuck there. Being the great mom that I am, I snapped few pictures of him doing this before I rescued him. Here he is between the two chairs:

And here he his jammed between the red couch and ottoman. Heather has dubbed him the extreme crawler becuase he not only does this, he also looks for obstacles to crawl over and deliberately makes his way toward them. Couch pillows are his favorite.

Elliott started TBALL practice! I am over the moon happy about this because I am a softball girl at heart! I love teaching him about how to catch a grounder and choke up on the bat, and all the other baseball catch-phrases I can think of. He has an AMAZING arm and is already learning all the rules and fielding positions. I don't know which of us is happier, maybe we'll see in the coming weeks.