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I tried to be sneaky and slip into the Girl's Trip: NYC Style post that I'm pregnant. Some of you caught it and sent your congrats my way, and some of you probably didn't read through that extremely long post to discover that, yes, I'm with child. I've been asked for details from some, so I'll post them here:

I'm due May 6th, 2009 . . . that makes me 13 weeks into this pregnancy.

Jim and I will find out what we're having in another month or so (I hope it's a baby!!!). We'll keep you posted.

Here's the baby's first picture taken at appointment numeral uno. I was almost eight weeks preggers then. For those of you who don't know, the baby is the thing inside the black circle that looks like a peanut.
I'm feeling ok. I get tired a lot, and I feel like I'm starving all the time, even after I JUST ate a rather large meal. If I don't eat every few hours I start feeling sick, so then I eat and all is well again. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and feel like I haven't eaten in weeks. On these nights I try to fall back asleep, but most of the time I find my way to the kitchen and pour myself a bowl of cereal.

Jim and I are excited, Jim more so than me. I'm worried about going from one baby to two. How will I divide my time between them? Will I love the second as much as I love Tralee? How will it be with two in diapers? Am I really ready for those 2am feedings again? etc, etc. When I start thinking like this I get a little overwhelmed, so most days I call upon my dear friend Denial to help keep me comfortable. Denial tells me if you don't really think about it, then it can't really happen, right? I know the day will come when I'll be forced to discover the answers to those looming questions. But, until these concerns are thrown in my face, I'll just stay comfortable with Denial and midnight cereal splurges.

Fairy Princess

Last night a fairy princess emerged right before our very eyes! She must have flown here to pay us a visit straight from the second star to the right. We can't be sure that's where she came from, as she never did tell us.

We're pretty sure she put a spell on us, as the entire evening we were full of giggles just watching her buzz around.

Oh how we wanted to capture her and put her in a jar so we could gaze upon her always. But she was too fast to catch, and when we were lucky enough to take hold of her as she flew by, she wiggled right out of clasp. Fairies sure are sneaky little beings.

One time Jim managed to catch her, but she made it perfectly clear to him that all she wanted to do was fly away.One thing we discovered about fairies is they like candy! Since this fairy was bringing us so much delight, and we wanted her around for awhile, we thought we better keep her happy with bits of candy here and there. And boy, did she ever stay happy as long as there was a sucker in each cherubic little hand.At one point we stopped feeding the fairy sugar -- we didn't want to make her sick and have to "clap! clap! clap!" to make her all better. When Jim told the fairy, "no more candy" she took off chasing after him and I was worried she might put a tricky fairy spell on him. Jim hid from her, but since she's a scrappy little thing it didn't take long for her to buzz right up to his hiding place. I was worried that this fairy would throw a fit about us not supplying her with more sweets, but she surprised me yet again when all she required from Jim was a hug and a kiss. I didn't know fairies could be so sentimental!As the sun was setting this little fairy let us know she was ready to fly home and go to bed. She must have been full of fairy dust and happy thoughts, because it didn't take much for her to fly away.We will miss this little fairy terribly as she was a lot of fun to have around. Maybe she'll come again sometime.

I'll have the candy ready.

Kudos to Me

As I've mentioned before I'm a far cry away from being the model stay-at-home-mom. I see other women canning, sewing, baking, gardening, quilting, making their own cleaning products, staying up-dated on food storage, all the while ushering three or four kids off to school, car-pooling them to soccer practice, scheduling play dates, and cooking a meal with a cute little home-made card attached to it for their neighbor who just had a baby. These women are amazing! I don't fit it with them -- at all! I don't think I ever will.

I'm a good mom (some days I'm sure I could be better). Most days I take good care of my daughter. She's well fed, groomed, and played with throughout the day. We read, color, blow bubbles, seek out activities to do together, etc. My focus is on her. That being said, anything I accomplish besides taking care of Tralee is a huge achievement. For instance, I'm proud of myself when I take a shower and get ready before noon, cook a REAL (all food groups included) meal from scratch, or muster up the energy to go work out at the Y. If I do all things mentioned above AND try out a NEW project--well then--let's just say it's a GREAT day for me, and I give myself major kudos!

Today is a kudos day! After going for a walk, running errands, playing with stamps and ink with Tralee (brave, I know), I packed Tralee up, and we went to a local farmers market. While there I purchased some locally grown apples, came home, and for the VERY first time in my life, I dehydrated apples!!! For you women who are the type-A's I mentioned in paragraph one, this might not be something too spectacular. In fact, it might not even be something deemed note-worthy for you. I, however, am extremely pleased with myself and the aroma of cinnamon and apples that fills up my house! After returning home from my Primary presidency meeting tonight I prematurely sampled some of my efforts and lets just say it was deliciouses! I might add "dehydrate something today" more frequently on my try-to-do-something-domestic "to do" list.

The next "to do" I want to try is canning. Never done it, it looks WAY too intimidating!

It's 10:00 now and I'm exhausted from my productive day. Type-A Mom is probably staying up a few more hours to work on her kid's homemade Halloween costume -- good for her. I, on the other hand, am taking my book up to bed and reading myself to slumberland.

Good night.

Happy Birthday Jimmy

Today is my big brother's birthday. Most people call him Jim now-a-days but he'll always be Jimmy to me.

Happy birthday Jimmy, we wish you all the best!



I love this picture of Jimmy and me. We look nothing alike. Jimmy was blessed with my mother's dark olive skin, shiny dark hair, and deep brown eyes. I was the blondie of the family. Light skin, light hair, BUT I did inherit the dark eyes! That's usually the only way people can tell we're related.

Anyway, I hope you have a happy day big bro!

Daddy's Hat

Tralee found this hat and put it on. She looked so cute I grabbed the camera and took this picture. I love it.

Pumpkin Picking Party

Last year Jim and I took Tralee pumpkin picking at a little pumpkin farm. We had a lot of fun, and thought the only way to make the experience more fun was to get more Jacobs's involved. So, we called the other Jacobs family that lives in Boise and invited them to bring their kids along for a pumpkin picking party. We were right, it was a blast! There's not really too much more to say than that, so I'll just post the pictures from our little outing. Enjoy.

Below Jovie and Tralee are checking out the sheep. The sheep REALLY liked Jovie.

Jovie and Tralee on the hay ride out to the pumpkin patch.

Tralee lookin' cute surrounded by pumpkins

Check out my sweet picasa skills.

I'm not sure why Tralee was yelling at the pumpkins, but she didn't really care for them too much.

Here's a nice photo of Jovie, Jared, Jim, and Tralee Jacobs

Jim was searching for the perfect pumpkin, and this is the one he found. It's a huge weird looking sucker! That's probably why Jim was drawn to it.

Tralee pointing to the pigs. After a while she actually touched one's ear instead of running away when it approached.

We all found our perfect pumpkins, then came back to our place and hung out for a bit. It was a good day.

Procrastinating

I really need to clean, but I don't want to. I told myself yesterday that today was the day I would clean. I put in one load of laundry, and then decided there must be something VERY important to read on-line. I checked my e-mail, facebook, and blog several times thinking that I must have missed some important message. No such message has emerged. Sigh.

I've also played blocks, and colored with Tralee this morning. Surly those are worthwhile activities. What's that saying, "the dust can wait." So, Tralee is not being neglected. In fact, I think I'm going to take Tralee and Corky for a walk right now. THEN, as soon as I get back I'll start cleaning for sure, unless that is, someone has an important e-mail or message to post before I get back from our walk. I'll check when I'm back from our walk, and if no news has been posted, then FOR SURE I'll clean. I mean it.