A fun-filled April Fool's Day

I've gotten into April Fool's quite a bit in the past, but this year I only did one little prank. I opened 2 bags of cookies, poured out the cookies, and put Goldfish inside. Then I sealed them up with double-stick tape. (Idea from FamilyFun.) It actually took some convincing to get the kids to eat something before we left to take Cat to school (usually we don't since she gets breakfast at school and we always seem to be pressed for time). Jack didn't seem to notice or maybe didn't care that he was eating Goldfish instead of cookies. Cat was amused but not at all annoyed or upset.

April Fool's Day was also her school's Wacky Tacky Hair Day. So she slept with her hair in 4 braids the night before and had some nice poofy pigtails for school that day. Can you tell that she was excited?

And April Fool's was ALSO her school's Field Day.
Here, Cat is sitting with her class. Can you pick her out?

Cat with her teacher:

Cat with her BFF:

All ready for the next event!

Almost Cat's turn for the Potato Race. (No, not Potato Sack Race.)
In this event, each person had to use a hockey stick to roll a potato down the field, around a cone, and back to the starting line. It took a while, especially considering the fact that I'm pretty sure most of these children have never even seen a hockey stick, let alone used one.
But they had fun!

After school, Cat went outside to play. She thought it would be fun to cover herself in mud. Oh, and she covered her brother in mud, too. (Jack didn't think it was so fun.) Below is a picture of Cat's muddiness.... but she was having so much fun getting dirty that she got even muddier after I took this picture.

Thank goodness Ben got home early so that he could address the muddy children while I made dinner. Cat was dirty enough at that point that he decided she should remove her clothes outside and hose herself off before getting in the bath. Yeah. It was bad. But she really had a blast getting dirty. Is there a word for a girl who loves all things girly, and also enjoys pouring mud on herself? Hmm.... well-rounded?

That night we had a family movie night and watched a new movie together. Cat had been begging us for cotton candy for a few weeks, so we splurged and spent $5 on 3 little tubs of cotton candy at the grocery store - we only ate 2 of them - but it set the tone for a fun night of hanging out together.

Cat dubbed it "the best day ever."