Veronica started preschool this year. I know...preschool...I still can't believe it myself. These past three years have went by so quickly, and I know when we start gaging the time by school years, it will go even more quickly. My precious baby girl is growing up! She had a great first day, but her "rough start" gave our admissions director a story that she said she will be telling for years!
Shh! Don't tell Dan, but I love this picture! Dan got to enjoy a few days at home with the kids while I was at school preparing for opening day. They had a great time, though I did question him on the amount of time he spent teaching our daughter about Star Wars and Transformers! He even had them dressed the parts.
Warren and I were on our way home today and he started crying in the car. This is nothing unusual. He does this on almost all car trips. I tried giving him his paci, but from the front driver's seat, this is about all I can do for him in those moments. So after a couple of unsuccessful attempts of trying to give him his paci and he refusing it, I had just resigned myself to "letting him cry it out" since we were headed home. Well I had the music on shuffle and turned it up a few notches when Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith" came on the iPod (I promise I was not trying to drown out the crying!). After a few seconds into the song, Warren instantly stopped crying and became very alert. He never whimpered even a peep the rest of the way home as we enjoyed Billy Joel's Greatest Hit album.
Coincidence? I think not as I recall the second night in the hospital after his birth. Warren was a having a tough night because he was still hurting from his little "procedure" earlier in the day and the Tylenol had worn off. Dan had gone home for the evening and it was just me and Warren. Around 11 PM, Warren woke up crying and the nurse gave him some more pain reliever, but it was going to take a while to kick in. I tried everything that evening to soothe him, but nothing was working...that was until Billy Joel came on. Warren started looking around the room with his little weak newborn eyes trying to figure out where that sound was coming from. I quickly turned the shuffle off and put the Billy Joel album on (continuous repeat). He never made another peep that entire evening.
I'm not sure if it is the voice or the beat, but either way our son is soothed by Billy Joel's music. How could I have forgotten this? It was one of the first things I learned about this sweet little boy as we bonded in the hospital maternal ward (the very "first" thing was how much he loves to eat!).
Warren went for his 4 month check up and vaccinations appointment today. All was well and he was ahead of schedule on everything from motor skills to his physical size. Doc was particularly impressed with his social skills.
Here is the lowdown on his size:
Height: 26 and 1/2 inches (90th percentile)
Weight: 17 lb and 1 oz (90th percentile)
Head circum: 42.5 cm (50th percentile)
For comparison, Veronica at four months was 25 and 1/2 inches long, 18 lbs 1oz in weight, and 42.5 cm head circumference. While we were in the office measuring super-baby, we also got Veronica's current measurements. She is 38 inches tall and weighs 39 lbs. Next appointment is not until September, which will be Warren's six month appointment and Veronica's three year appointment! I can't believe my baby girl will be three years old in just eight weeks!
And happy fourth month of life to Warren! Warren is four months old today. He is continuing to grow and learn new things everyday! In the past few weeks, he has learned to roll from back to belly (he mastered belly to back at 2 weeks) and he has found his feet, which he desperately wants to get into his mouth to chew on.
Veronica is looking forward to a Fourth of July parade and fireworks, but I wonder if the weather is going to cooperate today. We are heading downtown Lexington this morning for the festivities if/when the rain lets up and then to Frankfort this evening to celebrate Dan's birthday, along with his father's and brother-in-law's birthdays.
Also, my first "baby" Ellie Mae is nine years old today!
Update from June 4th post:
I posted a couple weeks ago about the Gumdrop pacifier trade-in special and wondered if they would send us a blue one or not. Well, a brand new BLUE gumdrop pacifier arrived just a week after I sent off the old soothie. Warren loves it and we love the new color. Too bad we didn't know about the different colors when Veronica loved and used this paci--we definitely would have ordered the pink one for her! A big thanks to Hawaii Medical for our new BLUE gumdrop pacifier!
Warren is almost 16 weeks old and weighs over 16 lbs now, but I just realized that one year ago this week he was only a few cells big. I'm in awe of how much he has changed in so short amount of time and it's moments like this that I stop and thank the Lord for two wonderful, healthy children. Babies truly are a miracle!
Her: You shouldn't fill me full of cookies.
Him: It's called self-control; I only ate one.
Her: You ate two!
Him: No, I only ate one.
(pause)
Her: I guess I did eat five.
Veronica loves her little brother. Every morning she waits patiently outside his door, listening for the first sounds from her little brother's bed that tell her that he is awake. With the biggest smile on her face, she runs to find me announcing "Mommy, he's awake! Warren's awake!" and takes me by the hand tugging me to his room. She usually breaks from me once we enter his room, races to his bed, and has almost scaled the side by herself before I scoop her up and place her next to Warren. Then brother and sister spend the next few minutes playing before Mommy takes them both to the kitchen to get their breakfast ready.
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Dan Hancock met Lori (Coffey) Hancock when they were sixteen. They got married in 2001. In 2005, they had their first child, a daughter, Veronica, and in 2008 they welcomed to the world a son, Warren.
