Happy Funny Hat Day Again (Gabrielle)
Several months ago we celebrated Funny Hat Day as a rebellion against gray days and bad moods. We liked it so much that yesterday we decided to do it again.
I made banana blueberry mulberry muffins and served them upside down. Arianna made cinnamon mini-muffins which exploded all over the muffin pan so she called them mushroom muffins and we served them upside down. We ate off of funny dishes from the kitchen (I got to use the butter dish) and drank chocolate milk from pitchers and jars. While we ate we played “I’m Going on a Picnic” wherein you collectively pack for the strangest picnic imaginable by taking turns naming a thing you pack that starts with the next letter of the alphabet. I’m not sure where we were planning to set up for this picnic, but I can tell you we would need a gigantic basket to hold it all.
After we ate we reenacted Jack and the Beanstalk. Samuel was Jack, Isaac was the Giant, Arianna was everything else (including the beanstalk) and Noah and Justice were in the way. I was the narrator and the director. And I was the voice of the giant. Our performance got interrupted by two phone calls and someone coming to the door so it was a tad disjointed. The acting wasn’t as nuanced as I might have liked, but the sets were beautiful and the directing superb. We all took our bows and bid farewell to yet another Funny Hat Day.