The Long Awaited Update

Ok, time for Round 2. I'm going to try this again. I really want to blog. I really do. I'm just so anal that it takes me 10 years to write 1 post and add pictures and make sure they are in the exact right place, etc, etc. I don't even know where to start at this point, so I'll just start with your basic "Family Update".

Troy is halfway through Residency! By this time next year, we should know where we will be stationed in the Air Force starting July 2012 for 4 years. He enjoys working and I think he's finally realizing that he knows more than he thought he did (good for the patients, right?) :) We miss him a lot during the busy months, but luckily we get a break from them until sometime after June.

Lydia is in Preschool at a nearby Rec Center and LOVES it! She knew quite a bit of the material already (letters, how to write her name, etc), but also learned things like days of the week and months, etc. We did it mostly for the social setting of school and preparing for multiple days a week away from home. She has a hard time with change (like her mom) and needs a lot of prep time for big things in her life, so Preschool was such a great invention for us. It has transitioned her smoothly and I'm so glad I won't have to worry about her when she starts Kindergarten in August. I can't believe she's that close to going to school. She just turned 5 in January. I have a 5 year old. Weird.

Jonah is 2 1/2 now and potty training (oh the joys). He's doing really well at home, but somewhere else where there are lots of distractions is another story. (Sigh) We'll get there someday. He's SUCH a boy. It's so weird to have a boy after having a girl (and vice versa, I'm sure). Everything is good guys & bad guys. He pretends to shoot everything in sight. He has battles with his "Army Mans" (he insists they aren't "Army MEN"), Star Wars guys, dinosaurs, cars, and anything else that could (or couldn't) possibly fight. Complete with all the boy sound effects that girls just can't pull off, no matter how hard we try. I have no clue where he picked it all up considering he's at home with his mom & sister all day.

Lydia & Jonah get along so well and fight so well, too. I can't believe they've been playing downstairs alone happily for 45 min without me having to break up a fight yet. (I probably just cursed myself...) Mostly Lydia gets mad when Jonah doesn't do exactly what she wants him to, (she's anal, again, like her mom) and Jonah gets mad when Lydia doesn't let him do what he wants because, you know, he's 2. But one of my favorites is when they play one of their favorite pretend games called, "You started it!" Yes, it's exactly what you're thinking. They each have a dinosaur or something and they start fighting them while they take turns saying, "You started it!" "No, you started it!" and then they proceed to send them to time out and tell them things like "Fighting is bad," "Pulling hair is bad," "Biting is bad," "Hitting is bad," etc. Well, at least I know that they know, right?

As for me, well, I can't really think of anything new. My sister-in-law cut my hair over Thanksgiving...the shortest I've ever had it. I donated it to Locks of Love. Made me feel good. Hopefully they can actually use it. Other than that, I just hang out with the kids, and do the normal "Mom" stuff.

(PS...I know this is not the best pic. It was right after it was cut and

I don't really have any other updated pics of me looking "cute".)

Our biggest news right now is that we're having a baby boy this summer! He's due July 5, but my doc is all about getting the baby out after 37 weeks, so we're expecting the last 1/3 of June sometime. Unfortunately, we already used the 1 boy name we could agree on, so this one might just have to remain, "Baby Hancock". Poor little guy. Lydia really wanted a sister, but she's ok with another brother. Jonah's just excited to have a baby, so he didn't really care what it was. We're glad he'll have a brother close to his age. Poor Lydia. She'll just have to stay buddies with her mom. :) Also unfortunately, I didn't get a break in sickness this time around either. I'm 20 weeks today and still throwing up. Just not as much as before, so it's S.L.O.W.L.Y. getting better. Not only do I feel sorry for myself, but for my family who's had to suffer through a useless mommy/wife these past few months. Again, that's getting better, too, but I still haven't managed to get the whole house clean at once (but then, I already struggled with that when I wasn't pregnant...) or make an actual dinner more than once a week or 2 (food is so disgusting...). Yesterday, Lydia & Jonah felt him kick for the first time! They were so excited! We're so glad they are happy about a new addition to our family.

I can't think of much else right now and I have to add in a few pictures, so I think I'll end it for now. Keep your fingers crossed that I can actually keep up with this!