Ethan's Age

Aidan's Age

Ethan's 2nd Birthday and Aidan's 2nd week

Ethan looking cute in the hot tub

Ethan loves his Daddy!

Ethan at Swim Lessons, he is progressing along. He loves to jump in the water!

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Blowing out his candles

So happy, he loves his cookies (what he calls a cupcake)!

Daddy and his Boys

Putting Ethan to work all ready

I need to teach him how to properly vacuum with lines in the carpet...next year!

Our little tiger Aidan

Our two boys, how cute are they?

So Ethan is two years old, I can't believe how quickly that happened. I feel like we are living it all over again with Aidan. Things are going well around here, as far as the baby the second time around is so much easier. It is Ethan that we are always chasing after, he seems to be adjusting to the new addition fine. He doesn't really give to much attention to Aidan, he is so independent that he is far to busy to pay attention!

Here are the boys stats from the doctors visit last week:

Ethan: 34 1/2 inches tall 60% percentile

25 1/2 pounds 20% percentile

Aidan: 20 3/4 inchess long 80% percentile

7 pounds 7 1/2 ounces 15% percentile

I guess the boys will be tall and thin, what a shocker!!! All is well with Larrs and I, Larrs is off for one more week! He has been working really hard around the house getting little projects done, I really appreciate all his hard work. He has been doing things all over the house and trying to keep Ethan out of my hair! Ethan is sure going to miss his daddy next week when he goes back to work. I am feeling great, the first week was hard but things get easier each day! Well, I will definately be putting pictures on more frequently!

Welcome Aidan

Aidan Edward Johnson
Born January 7, 2009
7:49 am
7 pounds 10 ounces
20 1/2 inches long

Aidan was born last Wednesday, a healthy and happy boy. Everything thing with the C-Section went fine, it wasn't as bad as I anticipated. The worst part about the whole procedure was the fact that it took four tries to get the IV started. My doctor's were great, they made me feel very safe through the whole surgery. Aidan is so sweet just like his brother! He is sleeping alot during the day, which is a nice change. Ethan is adjusting well to having a little brother. He loves to find the baby and give him his binkie and blankie. It is so cute! I know that in time he will help out and love to play with his baby brother. I am at home until April, so I will be enjoying some one on one time with Aidan a couple of days during the week when Ethan is at daycare. I am so lucky to have the help of Larrs for 3 weeks and the help of my mom for 1 week after that. It is a big help for me until I recooperate. I will post more pictures later in the week!

Ethan Update

Ethan at the petting zoo - San Diego Zoo

How cute is he????

Ethan and Daddy in the bugs. I had to take a picture of this because my grandpa called the town that my great-grandparents lived Bug Town because he had never seen so many bugs.

Ethan's Elmer Fudd hat

Ethan's Visit to see Santa...What a happy boy!

Playing underneath the Christmas tree

Family Photos, I love this picture...

Daddy and his look-a-like Ethan

Mom and Dad looking at their boy

Mommy with her pride and joy

Ethan's new room and furniture

Big Boy Bed

Diaster strikes...

Big Mess

Well, sorry I have not updated in a long time. I have been extremely busy with finishing up the last of things at work for my maternity leave and with having little to no energy when I get home from work. I have not been feeling all that great with the final weeks of preganancy in full force. Aidan is sittitng very low in my pelvis area and is causing lots of pressure. He is scheduled to be born C-Section on January 7th, so we will keep you updated on the goings on of the new little boy.

On to the good stuff, Ethan and us have been keeping very busy. In early November we went down to San Diego for a wedding. While there we took him to the San Diego Zoo and to Seaport Village. He loved to see all the animals, enough though he called them all "doggies". Well he did call the monkies "mommies". Wonderful! Ethan is a very curious boy and is not afraid to try anything.

For Thanksgiving we went up to Big Bear for the holiday, we drove up Tuesday night and stayed through Sunday. It was a real relaxing weekend, it was great to take it easy with so many adults to watch after Ethan. Ethan loved playing outside with Daddy, and wanted to help Daddy rake the leaves and shovel. He is such a boy, he wants to be in the action of what the boys are doing. He loves boy toys!

I also took Ethan 2 weekends ago to visit Santa, I was fully prepared that he would not like him. Ethan saw Santa and Santa waved at him, Ethan looked so petrafied but did manage to wave back at him cautiously. It was so funny! When it was our turn he didn't want to go on Santa's lap, but we put him down there anyway. He kicked off his shoes becuase he was so upset, but didn't really cry all that much. So it wasn't too bad, next year should be interesting with the the two boys.

Also, another big change we made here was transitioning Ethan from a crib to the toddler bed to a twin bed in a matter of 3 weeks. The night we got home from Thanksgiving he spent his first night in the toddler bed, he only got out of his bed 4 times! This was a shock to us because we had to put a tent over his crib to keep him in there. I thought for sure he would be up many times and would be taking things out of his drawers and destroying his room. He stayed in the toddler bed for about 3 weeks and then we put him in the twin bed and in the new bedroom. He did great!!! I am so happy that we did all this before Aidan arrives, he loves his new bed and room.

He loves his room so much yesterday, he did not want to go down for a nap, he took every book off his bookshelf and proceeded to take all the wipes out of the container and empty his diaper drawer. If that was not enough he took his pants and the diaper he was wearing off. I thought I should go in the room because he was having way to much fun, the first thing he said when I opened the door was "Poopie". That was too funny! So mommy cleaned the mess up and put him down again.

Thank you for looking at our update, I promise that I will not forgot about the blog again. I will hopefully post our Christmas pictures, but you probably will not see a post until Adian is born in early January.

Halloween

Happy Little Pumpkin

I am innocent really...

Nice Family Picture, Not really

Ethan, Larrs, Sam, and Ben (Ethan's cousins)

Ethan and Daddy going up to a house

My Little Superman

Here are some pictures of Ethan on Halloween. Larrs was able to take off a couple of hours and go trick or treating with Ethan. He did pretty good, he obviously doesn't like to sit still for pictures. I tried to get a picture of him sitting in front of his pumpkins at our house but I was unsuccessful. We went to Aunt Lynn's house, Granny's, Mary's, and my parents to go trick or treating. Ethan's favorite candies are M & M's and Tootsie R0lls, I need to get rid of the candy so it is out of sight out of mind.

Pismo Beach

Grandpa and Ethan looking at birds from the pier

Ethan and Daddy walking hand in hand

Ethan the red-nosed boy...

Playing on the fire truck

Two weekends ago we went camping with Larrs' parents and Larrs' partners family to Pismo beach. We had a great time, on Saturday they had a fair on the pier for the kids. Ethan had a great time walking and watching the birds and also the surfers. A fire truck and police car were there too, he loved climbing into them and playing with all the gadgets. He is becoming quite a ham, he loves to do things for attention!