Our Baby is Here!

Julia Henrietta Jacobs came at 2:46 am on last Saturday morning, February 13, after a fast and furious labor and birth! She was born at home, of course.

Here are a few photos taken after we all slept for a few hours





And here is Julia at 10 days old

Anna's Third Birthday

Happy Birthday to Anna!

Happy Birthday, Sophia

Here is a birthday post for Sophia, a day late. She had a party and it was a lot of fun, but I was too busy and then too tired to blog about it. Here are a few photos:

The party guests did shrinky-dinks (fun!)


And we had strawberry cupcakes


Yum!


Here's the big 8 year old!

Happy Birthday Anna

Two years ago:

One year ago:

This year:

:)

Four at Last

Ellie is now four years old. Her birthday (today) was quite an affair. We progressed from happy surprise as she woke up this morning ("You mean I'm four right now?") to telling everyone what to do because she was the birthday girl ("Sophie you can't wear that today because it's my birthday") and on to shrieking meltdown whenever anything happened that wasn't to her liking ("She cutted in front of me, I was walking there!") and using the threat of no cake to try and manipulate ("That's it, Sophie isn't getting any of my cake.")
By this evening she was a complete mess. All of my attempts to get her to take a nap had failed. Her birthday dress was filthy, her hair was falling out of her crooked birthday pony tails, and she was oscillating between a melt down state and a whiny repetition of "When do I get to eat the cake? When are we opening my presents?"

We had a nice dinner in spite of it all (just the 6 of us) and ate some of the cake (with sprinkles and blueberries, according to Ellie's specifications) and opened presents and everyone was happy for a few minutes. When Anna saw the cake she said "Yeah! Coo-kie!"

the cake:


the three littles:


Ellie with her new shirt, necklace, and doll:


We took a short walk after dinner and when we got home Ellie was so exhausted that she collapsed onto the floor in her anguish, yelling "I'm not going to bed! I'm not tired! You go to bed! I'm not going to bed!"

Five minutes after this tirade I found her asleep on the floor. Maybe she'll be a bit calmer tomorrow. (sigh) Four is supposed to be easier than three, isn't it?

Friday (all day)

Happy Birthday Sophia! (our big 7-year-old girl)


Sophia's Birthday Shrinky Dinks


Twin Pinkys (from The Cute Book)


The Birthday Girl


Birthday Cupcake Picture

Happy Birthday to our friend Chris, too, who sometimes reads this blog and doubtless remembers Sophia's birth since she was there. :)

Happy Birthday, Anna-boo!

Yesterday our littlest JacobsCircus performer had her first birthday. We survived it, although just barely. Our original plan was to have a party at Grandma's house with family and a few friends, so Margaret and I spent the day making cakes and food and ignoring the mess the little girls were making all over the house. This backfired pretty badly when most of the family canceled at the last minute and we had to call everyone and invite them over here, instead. :)

Tony stepped up and did a quick clean-up, though, and Margaret and I served up the food, and our guests came over and we had a really nice evening. We have lots of food leftover, though!

Here's Anna with her birthday cupcake, flavor: pink.


Sophie and Zephyr enjoyed them as well.


Anna followed first birthday tradition and got nice and messy!

Happy Birthday Month!

Anna will be a big one-year-old next week, and Sophia will be turning seven the week after that, so we're getting ready to enjoy some birthday fun and try to get our minds off of sad things and too much snowy coldness. We got 6 inches yesterday but it was too cold to go out and play in it, so we're feeling a bit cooped up.

We heard a rumor that tomorrow is International Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day, but I can't substantiate it. We plan to eat ice cream for breakfast tomorrow just in case. :)

Margaret obtained this book with her Christmas gift card, so we're spending our time making very cute things that we will photograph and post here asap.

Eleanor is three!

Eleanor's birthday was Monday, but due to the yucky cold we're all passing around I didn't get this up until today. Happy Birthday, Ellie, we love you so much!