Benjamin Ryan Johnson

Baby Announcement

Benjamin Ryan Johnson was born today at 3:57 pm weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.

Benjamin

Ben with Mommy

Ben with Daddy

Andrew kissing his new baby brother

Pregnancy Update

I had my 37 week appointment today. I am 2 cm dilated, 50% effaced, and the baby is in posterior (or "sunny-side up") position. I've been given some exercises to do several times a day to try and get the baby to move positions - otherwise I'll be in for some pretty painful back labor. Yikes!

Chuck & Chuck

It's been quite a while since I've updated, mostly because I've been put on modified bed rest for the last five or six weeks and nothing exciting has been happening. I've spent most of my time watching crappy movies, reading crappy books, and watching crappy television. Can you tell I was a little bored? Now that I'm able to be up and about again, I'm so hugely pregnant I'm too miserable to do anything. But that's enough complaining...

This morning I asked Andrew to throw away a napkin in the kitchen (we were in my bedroom at the time). He went out to the living room and came running back in, informing me he couldn't throw it in the garbage because there were two pigs in the kitchen that were trying to "get him." Scott asked what the pig's name was, and Andrew told us it was Chuck. I asked what the other pig's name was, and apparently it was named Chuck as well. We let him know that Chuck & Chuck were friendly pigs and they wouldn't harm him, but it still took a five minute pep talk to get him to go into the kitchen by himself and throw away the darned napkin - with him running as fast as he possibly could both ways.