How to get a snowday

Thomas came home yesterday with this plan to get a snow day:

1) Put ice cubes in the toilet.  To be safe, he felt this meant to be ice cubes in EVERY toilet and then mentioned that no one was allowed to flush the toilet until the ice had melted.

2) Sleep with a spoon under your pillow.  Again, this required full family participation and he disbursed plastics spoons.  And yes, we did all have them under our pillows last night.

3) Sleep with jammies on backwards.  Since he was wearing the zippered footed jammies, this was particularly challenging, but he did it anyway!  He has decided that since it didn't work last night, this is where the plan is flawed.  He feels that full family participation is required here as well, and that isn't going to happen.  He was explaining to Catherine that she needed to do this and she said she didn't want to because it's uncomfortable.  He agreed, but mentioned it's a small price to pay in order to get a snow day.  He's cracking us up!