I went to pick Madi up from school on Friday and as we were walking to the car she said we should play a trick on Dad and tell him she got an F on her spelling test. I told her that I had already informed her Dad that she had gotten a 100%, I saw it when I was helping in her classroom that morning.
I then said, "But we could play a trick on him and tell him that you got in big trouble at school"
So we devised a plan and a story and we decided to do it. As we were driving home she said to me, "Mom he knows when I fake cry, how can I really cry?" I told her don't worry about it I would come up with something.
As we pulled into our apartment parking lot I told her this, "Madi there is something that I need to tell you. When we were letting Chula (our dog) out to go the bathroom today she ran into the street and got hit by a car, and well she didn't make it, she died."
Madi started to cry really hard into my side and so I decided to roll with it (I told her not to worry about trying to fake cry for her dad, right)
p.s. Chula didn't die
As we walked into the house I started to yell at Madi, as planned, and told her to go to her room. I yelled all the usual mom's mad phrases like, "I can't believe you", "We raised you to be better than that", "You need to learn to control yourself". I walked in the living room and Peyton said, "What happend?"
I said, "Well your daughter decided to throw a chair at someone again, (I say again because she did raise a chair to throw at someone in Kindergarten because the boy was making fun of her name, she didn't really throw it, but she did get in trouble, obviously!!) you are going to have to take care of it this time I am so fed up!"
So he calmly got up and walked into the bedroom where she was under the covers, still crying, who knows if it was over Chula (our "dead dog") or if she was fake crying for the skit.
He pulled the covers from off her head and told her to get down from off the top bunk and come to the bottom. So she did.
The first thing he said was quite fake crying. I thought we were busted, but no he kept going. "What happened?"
"Well this girl in my class were fighting over being friends with Ava, and she called me a diaper head and so I picked up a chair and threw it at her"
By the way she came up with the story on the spot, I was pretty proud, minus the diaper head.
He then proceeded, "So you threw a chair at your friend because she called you a diaper head, this doesn't make any sense. How do you figure that you can throw a chair at someone for calling you a name?"
I then pulled out her folder and pretended to read the "pink slip" inside, stating that she had received one day in school suspension for her actions. We then explained to her there would be no recess, no fun, no playing, just sitting and doing homework.
At this point Peytons vein started to show, it always shows on his forehead when he gets really mad. You could just see on his face how pissed off he was for his daughter receiving in-school suspension.
He then said, " Why are you smiling, this isn't funny, you are in so much trouble"
Madi I don't think could hold it in any longer. I had already had to turn away and giggle twice, she was so convincing!!
She started laughing and saying tricked ya, tricked ya!! Which of course I started to laugh!
He looked over at me with confusion and saw that we were really joking and that the "pink slip" was really an order form for Cliff's tickets.
He said we were horrible and that that was a horrible joke, and then we all started to laugh and roll around on the floor, tackling eachother.
While on the floor I told Madi that Chula didn't die and that it was just what I could think of to get her to cry.
"You what, you told her that Chula died, just to get her to cry? You are a horrible person!" -Peyton
What can I say I am a horrible person sometimes, but boy was it worth it!!
