A Little Bit of Everything

First of all, Happy Mother's Day! I hope everybody out there got what they wanted for their special day. I, personally, had a pretty great day! The boys made a genuine effort to get along and behave, and even made an attempt at cleaning. Shannon drew me another wonderful card while Riley made me a card with my scrapbook supplies, pictures, and lots of glue. Corey picked up the living room with a lot of help from Shannon while Riley cleaned up the dishes and got Corey dressed for the day. Riley even presented me with a great coupon book he'd made, promising such things as cleaning his room without being asked, behaving so I could take a bubble bath, and changing a diaper for me. (Corey is still not pooing on the potty, so this works!)

Ken made my day extra special by getting me an 80 GB IPod, (I've been wanting one ever since I bought my Dad an IPod Shuffle for Christmas.) I would have been happy with the Shuffle or the Nano, but Ken thought this one was the best deal for the price, and I'd have to agree. I love the dang thing, I've already loaded 512 songs onto it and 1248 pictures! Tomorrow I'll be running to the library to grab a bunch more CD's to transfer. I want to load the heck out of it, even if I could never possibly listen to the 20,000 songs it can potentially hold!

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Oh, yeah, I dyed my hair back to brown the other day, and had it chopped back into some pretty serious layers. It's similar to the original style I had when I first whacked off all of my hair three years ago. I like it and my girlfriend Heather noticed the change right away. Ken, however, took over 24 hours to notice it, and that was after I brought it to his attention. "Looks the same to me," he said. Maybe it does? You be the judge:

Current: Hair shorter, brown, layered, IPod. Old: Blonde, one length, no IPod.

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Today we dug into our spaghetti and meatball dinner and then Shannon reminded us to say grace. We stopped, did our 'Father, Son, Holy Spirit,' said grace, and 'Father, Son, Holy Spirit' to finish the prayer. After we'd resumed eating, Shannon asked if I could sing On Top of Spaghetti for him since it's one of his favorite songs. I said, "Okay, let's sing it... On top of Spa...." I looked over at Corey as I began and he was wanting to sing along but he had to finish making the sign of the cross for this 'prayer' too.

It was really cute, but even more impressive than the fact that we had a new dinner time prayer was the fact that Corey made the sign of the cross correctly, touching forehead, heart, right and left in order. Until now it's been forehead, chest, forehead, left, left, right or something along those lines. My baby is growing up!

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Finally, I have some pictures from the boys messing around yesterday. Shannon and Corey were getting along great in the backyard as I was finishing up with mowing the lawn. Shannon would straddle the slide and Corey would slide through underneath his legs. It was great seeing them having fun together, and I only cringed a little whenever they collided and both went flying down the slide instead.