April Fools

Over dinner last night, the topic of discussion was April Fools jokes. Several were discussed, most of them off the charts somewhere in the stratosphere of way to messy and/or just plain obnoxious. An example of a "joke" considered was filling a balloon full of syrup and putting it under my pillow so when I went to bed, "pop" would go the balloon and we would be covered in stickiness. Another was putting whipped cream in mom's hand while she slept and then tickling her nose. Again, way to messy.

Carina will sometime get up early in the morning and will come into our bed. Usually when she does, she will squeeze between us and make herself at home. I usually sleep with earplugs so I can't hear her but can feel the bed moving all about as she nuzzles in. Today at about 6:30, I feel the bed wiggling about and can feel someone in the middle of bed and I just assumed it was Carina.

After a few minutes of wiggling, I finally opened my eyes and was about to tell her to sit still when who do I find standing over me? Noah. Not only is he standing over me but Gavin is at the foot of the bed prodding Noah on to "do it". So I do a double-take on Noah to see what "it" is. I can see something funky in Noah's hands but can't quite make out the odd shaped brown thing. I sit up a bit and squint in an attempt to figure out it out and ask, "What are you doing?" Laughing, Noah says, "I was going to pull out your ear plugs and replace them with bacon." Yep, he and Gavin got up and pulled some cooked bacon from the fridge and were going to pack that into my ears. What the???? Pack bacon in my ears? Like I wouldn't wake up? And bacon... why bacon? Funny boys!

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