Sorry We're Boring!

• Up at nearly 3am due to Ellie wanting a bottle, then wanting to play, then wanting to snuggle and have another bottle. Ugh, that is the last time I sacrifice a nap. OK, I'm sure it won't be, but boy do I hate being up in the middle of the night. I'm not a good sleeper to begin with. Tomorrow will be a nap day for sure.
• Thinking about cancelling cable. It's too darn expensive and we really should be spending our time more productively. I think what we'd really like to do is return/exchange some of our more expensive pieces (the internet with FIOS is pretty pricey, not to mention we're currently paying for one set top box we don't even use and two others that could easily be scaled back). But since it's with FIOS, we're locked into a contract, so we'd have to pay a $179 cancellation fee to do any of that, which makes us just want to cancel the whole thing. We cancelled our Netflix subscription, too, but I suppose we could always start that up again and then we'd be saving money and still have stuff to watch. The only huge bummer would be no more So You Think You Can Dance. That's one of my favorites and so far I haven't found anywhere to watch it online.
• Ellie's been doing a lot of pulling up to standing lately, and is crawling everywhere. She's finally got the crawling motion down instead of her little inchworm move, and she's getting faster.
• Doing great with finger foods, too, I've been cutting up and sharing our foods as often as I can and so far, she seems to love it. She really likes corn.
• Cloth diapering is going OK. I like that trial programs exist, but this particular one doesn't provide enough of the diapers I really like...the diapers I don't like so much I never want to use, so to keep her in the 3 diapers that I do like takes a lot of extra washing. And I'm still a bit worried about the initial investment. I think we're probably going to hold off for now and revisit when we have another baby. If we have two in diapers at the same time, it may make financial sense to get one-size cloth diapers that I can use on both. But we'll see.
• Tommy got a promotion! Still waiting to hear on salary info, but we've been waiting on this promotion for about 6 months now, so we're very pleased...congrats, buddy! I'm proud of you.
• Too hot here, haven't even been to the pool. It's hitting mid-100's with the heat index lately. Yuck. Can definitely feel a difference in the temp of the house with the new windows, hopefully we'll get the attic fan fixed sometime this summer and really see a reduction in our energy consumption and the heat of the 2nd floor.
• Planning to clean out our hideously messy laundry room and sell some things. Anyone interested in a used fridge? What about some golf clubs? Or a TV?