My Little Valentines

Love this face...

Sitting up like a big boy

My Two Valentines

He looks innocent, not!!!

Ethan loves playing in the dirt

Chubby cheeks, I think all his weigh is in his cheeks...

Sweet face

Strike a pose

Well, everyone here in the Johnson household is great! We are adjusting to life with two kids. It is kinda crazy at times, but we are learning to take things day by day. Ethan is now officially a terrible two, he is throwing tantrums and being very defiant. He is giving us a run for our money. Despite this, he is keeping us on our toes. He loves his new brother and wants to be helpful with giving him a blanket or a pacifier. I know it will get harder before it gets easier. Ethan loves to play outside with his daddy and is learning many new words. He is amazing us each day! He is truly a joy to watch grow! On to Aidan, he is sleeping in his crib now!!! He sleeps about 6-8 hours straight at night, I am so lucky to have sleepers. Maybe in a couple more weeks I can have a good nights rest. At his 1 month checkup he weighed in at 8 pounds 12 ounces (25% percentile) and was 21 1/4 inches long (50% percentile). He is growing like a weed! He is looking more and more like Ethan everyday, I definitely think that the Johnson gene is in both of my boys. We are busy preparing for our party here this weekend and can't wait for family and friends to celebrate with us! I will post pictures on Sunday of the party!

Larrs & Amy

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.