Mom, I need you!!

The Saturday before Mother's Day. Poor Cannon had the flu all Friday night and all day Saturday. All he wanted was for me to hold him. If I put him down, he would say. "Mom, I need you." At one point I asked if I could make a bed for him while I made dinner. He agreed, but fell asleep again. Mother Day seemed to have greater meaning after cleaning up throw up for 24 hours before!!

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I hope that every Mom had a wonderful mother's day!! I know that I did.

I can't get enough love from my boys!!

The relationship between a mother and her sons is an awesome !

What mother wouldn't be proud of these smiles?!?!

Real funny P-Rock!

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This was Corey's idea of cleaning up after the Mother's Day dinner that I made after the Mother's Day breakfast that I made. The Mother's Day episode of abc's "The Middle" was too funny. Frankie, the mom, says at the end of the episode as she's enjoying her favorite piece of pie at her favorite restaurant alone the Monday after Mother's Day: "Mother's Day is for them (her family). The day after Mother's Day is for me. It's kinda like Father's Day for Mothers."

~ I think I need to create my own tradition of having a

"Father's Day for Mothers"!! ~

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Does anyone else have in-laws that make you laugh? My father-in-law told Corey that he would take our dead water heater to the recycling center because he was already headed there to take his aluminum cans (that have been prewashed and perfectly smashed). This is what he brought back to Corey.

Yes - the dimes are taped to the post-it note.

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The PTA at Peyton's school wanted the kids to participate in a "treasure hunt". They had to bring an empty ink cartridge, 10 box tops, 2 Campbells soup labels and 2 receipts from Macey's. If you brought everything to school, you were entered into a drawing for one of two Webkinz. Peyton kept talking about the Webkinz and as a mother I kept telling him not to be disappointed when he didn't win. Well, he came home the next day with a.....

......New Webkinz! Lucky Kid! :)

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Grandma and Grandpa Cheney came for a visit. We love having them here and we are always sad when it's time for them to go home. We had a great time hanging out and taking a picnic to Wellsville Dam.

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Peyton had a field trip to Willow Park Zoo. They taught them about different types of animals. Peyton got to touch a bearded dragon lizard (at least I think that's what they said). This was the only picture I took because the rest of the field trip was outside looking at the animals under umbrellas in the rain.

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Peyton started baseball practices. Corey took him the first night and said he cried once when the pitching machine threw a ball right into his cold hands. After the second practice, Peyton came home and said the practice was better because he cried less.

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Cannon has done it - he's potty trained. He earned his Diego flashlight. Note to self - get more batteries!

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I pulled out my CD's for a YW activity that we were having. Peyton was flipping through them and asked if the I had the CD's when I was young. When I told him I did, he said, "Man, these must be really old."

~ Out of the mouth of babes! ~

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When Cannon woke up the other day, I went in his room to get him and he asked me why I put the baby in his bed. When I asked him what baby, he asked again why I had read the baby a story and then put the baby in his bed. He looked around his bed and looked confused that the baby wasn't there. I love it when kids have been dreaming!

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Peyton informed me the other day that when he was little, he would lick doorhandles. To a mother that is a germ-a-phobe, there are only a handful of other things that he could have told me that he licked that would have been grosser! (namely shopping cart handles and toilets.)