April Fool's Day Song & Dance

Annika Skywalker and B. Boyd E. exchanged insults over the phone while the candles burned.


Then, if he hadn't hung up by that point, we deafened him with the birthday song (candles still barely burning).



Enter the pirate! Last summer, McGamma gave us a pinata to hide away, and the week of the birthday Mopsy gave us several bags of clearance candy to stuff inside it. When I showed him to Annika that morning, she was speechless. She just couldn't believe that "the first pinata she'd ever seen" was HERS and that it was a PIRATE.

His plastic hanger broke after a few hearty swings, and so we looped the rope around his neck, at which point everyone began to chant, "Hang the pirate! Hang! Hang! Hang!" which sounds less comical and more bloodthirsty than it was in reality.



Every last cousin took a turn wildly swinging, even the boys, and my biggest brother, Uncle Andster, helped finish him off.