The Unthinkable!

I can't believe/understand why ABC is not putting Dancing with the Stars online this year. I am so dissapointed that I am not able to watch during the 5:00 am feeding, like I did with Cade, but I did find all of the dances on YouTube! Despite the poor video quality I have now watched the the last few dances, and I have to say Cloris Leachman is my favorite. That lady is crazy....the type of person you are glad is NOT part of the family! I just crack up the whole time she is on camera.
Anyways, now that the important stuff is out of the way, I will update on the latest and greatest at the Grogan household. Chad went hunting for a few days (like SIX) last week, and left me and the boys. His mom came up as backup, which was a HUGE help, but we all missed him a lot. At least he and his dad brought back a bull (a boy elk, for those of you like me who would have no clue what that means). They were archery hunting and I guess Spence made an incredible shot. All I know is that the head that they brought home really stunk, and scared our neighbors a little bit.

Also, in new developments, Luke has decided that he hates sleeping. This just means that none of us sleep, which has been fun for the last few days. The blissful month of just laying him anywhere to sleep is definately over, so we are spending a couple days trying to train him to use his crib. This means a lot of crying, and I have been really surprised how much easier it is to bear with a crying baby this time around. Maybe it is just because while he is crying I am chasing Cade around instead of just listening to the horrible noise, but whatever it is hopefully it translates to sleeping soon!

The Countdown Begins!

As many of you know, I am a huge dork. That being said, I just cannot explain how excited I am for the new season of Dancing with the Stars! We don't have TV, so I have to wait until Tuesday to watch online, and I feel extra crippled because I have no idea who any of the "stars" are on this season, except for the NSync guy...which isn't saying alot. This is one of my many guilty pleasures, and it will probably dominate most of my conversation and blogging, so be warned!

Cloth Diapers and all manner of hippie fun...

With two kids in diapers the reality check was coming, and it hit this week at Costco while I was buying diapers. For the two kiddos, we would be spending over $100 PER MONTH on disposables! I had done the math before, but as I was looking at my budget envelopes (yes, we are trying to be good Dave Ramsey-ites) the $100 started to look different. Like clothes, or Christmas presents, or a nice date night...

SOOOO, we took the plunge and got some cloth diapers. I did hours of online research last night, and found a ton of information, and shockingly, cloth diapers these days don't necessarily have huge safety pins! I found one company, G-Diapers, that makes a cloth/disposable combo. They have a cloth diaper and a flushable or biodegradable liner. The liners are REDICULOUSLY expensive, (but probably great) but I found a bunch of moms that were using the g diaper 'pants' with a cloth liner instead. Then I found a company that makes a liner that looks almost like a dryer sheet that sits on top of the cloth liner. This little guy is flushable, so you just lift the poopy mess right out of the diaper and flush it away. I know this is all rather confusing, liner on top of liner, but in short this means I will NOT be scrubbing out poopy diapers in the toilet.

I know, I know, the birkenstocks are next, but hopefully if our guinea pig Cade likes the diapers, we can save a whole lotta money and maybe even gain a really nice date night!

just photos...no time to write!

Cade and Alyssa, on their first date. He picked her up.

Luke=big boy

Cade giving Luke kisses

Cade is a big helper, giving Luke his binky

Screaming Babies

Today marks my second day of going it alone, since Chad went back to work yesterday. It has been really exciting trying to do this on my own, a lot of screaming and crying, from both me and the boys. :). Seriously though, we had some spills and bruises and a ton of tantrums and screaming bloody murder. If we have any repeats of yesterday's preformance I think my neighbors may call children's services. I also had a thought around the middle of the day--I think that the fact that women only have one set of arms and hands should completely disprove evolution--I mean, after a supposed millions of years of evolution, don't you think we would have grown another set just to help cope with multiple children?
Anyways, today is going much better, less screaming so far, so I actually got a chance to take some pretty good pictures.


Cade, plugging his ears

Luke sleeping, like usual, and Cade getting unusually close to the baby

Luke, 2.5 weeks, 9.2 lbs, and sleeping!

Cade, showing me for the MILLIONTH time where Luke's nose is.

Labor Day in Lakeview

Given the fact that I have been feeling really well, we ventured down to Lakeview for the big Labor Day fair and rodeo. Chad was supposed to have had a class reunion too, but evidently nobody wanted to plan that event, so a whopping 8 people showed up at the Knights of Columbus pancake feed to reunite. It was actually pretty fun to see a few of Chad's old friends and show our boys off.
Cade had himself a great ol time at Gramma and Grandpa's house. He rode on the tractor, he played with the dogs, went "hunting" with the boys, got some much needed attention and even rode all of the carnival rides by himself! He was hysterical and I had no idea that a carnival could be so much fun.
Chad was hoping that we would have some elk pictures to post, but no luck this trip.

Cade and Grandpa on the "tractor"

Cade at the Carnival, driving the big rigs. Notice he has both steering wheels...

Uncle Shawn and Luke