snips & snails & puppy dog tails

Who doesn't just love a new little baby?

It has been a wonderful week. Little Mac is a sweet little baby and we are so lucky to have him in our home. Kamden loves him so much. He is always peeking over the bassinet and saying, "Mac, bed. Baby, bed." Yesterday, while nursing McKay, Kamden said, "Lap, baby, bed." He wanted to sit on my lap so that meant that the baby needed to go in his bed. Well, it was kind of important that McKay stay on my lap so we doubled up. For now my lap can hold them both.

My mom thinks that Mac has grown already in the week he's been here. I can't believe how fast they change. Kamden looks monstrous compared to 2 weeks ago when he was my little baby. He's so helpful too. Pulling diapers out and handing me McKay's binky seems to be his little specialty.

With a little help from my mom, Jeff, and a good camera, we took some really fun pictures last Saturday.This one is definitely my fav.Nothing like a daddy and his boy.

Yeah, Jeff's sporting a size 14.

McKay has Jeff's feet, or I should say, his toes.

They are the exact same!

I'm sure you noticed but I changed the title of our blog from --Keepin' Up With the Johnson's-- to --Three Men & a Little Lady--. That way you'll know who it is if you have a blog list.

Chop Chop

I went and got my hair cut this morning. I cut about 11 inches and it feels so nice.

There is so much humidity in the air here that it won't hold any curl (except natural which for me is even worse) and it's so hard to do anything with it. I haven't had my hair this short in a long time. I'm so excited to try new stuff with it.

BEFORE

AFTER

McKay David Johnson

My boys. Leaving the hospital.
First Family Picture

Getting ready to go home

Wink

GG, Kam, McKay

Check out all that hair

Teensy Tinsy

Brothers

He really is perfect

First Bath

Proud Daddy

Oh I was so happy to have my little boy here

Still waiting...where's my baby?

Jeff was a little getting frustrated too

Monday night we went to the Grasshoppers game here in Greensboro with some friends. We left a little early cause I was getting really uncomfortable. I kept having contactions but they weren't too intense and they were pretty far apart. We went home and I was pretty sure that the baby was going to be coming soon. I finished getting all my stuff together for the hospital and then tried going to bed. I laid there for what seemed like forever, listening to Jeff's gentle breathing. For some reason, he sounded even more relaxed and comfortable than usual. :)

I kept thinking, "If this next one is any sooner, I'll wake him up." Finally after telling myself that about 4 times, I woke Jeff up. I said, "Let's call Shena." He said, " Right now? Are you sure?" Then I told him, "Well, let's wait and see what this next one is like." Why do we talk ourselves out of these things? So, after the next intense one, I said, "Let's go. Oh, actually I think my water just broke." Well, it hadn't, I thought that it may have. So, Jeff took Kamden over the Shena & Cheeto's (thanks again) and we headed to the hospital.

When we got to the hospital it was about 12:45 am and I was at 3cm. They do things way different here. I'm sure that it could just be the hospital and not that it's a different part of the country but there was a lot more waiting here. They put us in a room to answer questions and then we walked back out into the waiting area, then into triage to see how far along I was. In Orem, we walked in and said I thought I was in labor and they took me directly to the birthing suite. Anyway, when they decided I really was in labor, they admitted me. I'm sure I was a little irritable, ya know, being in labor and all. :)

They took me over to the laboring suite and around 2:45 the anethesiologist came in for the epideral. He was so great and explained everything step by step. My right leg went numb almost instantly and I could still feel contractions on my left side, which I was okay with. At the end of it all, my epideral worked a little too well. When I went into the recovery room, they had to take me on a stretcher because I still couldn't move my legs. For the rest of the day and into the night, I couldn't stand on my right leg. Jeff and the nurse tried to help me twice and both times I almost fell to the ground. Good thing Jeff was there to catch me. The anethesiologist came and checked out my leg. He said that it wasn't too common for it to last that long but that it should be better within 24 hours. The next morning my leg was working again. Yeah!

Back to the delivery. Now is when I started getting frustrated. I kept telling them that I went really fast with my first. With Kamden, my water broke in the hospital room just before my epideral. Once your water breaks you go pretty quick because you have stronger contractions. Well, because of the time of night, the nurse decided after I had my epideral that I should "rest". Who can or who really wants to rest? I just wanted to have myself a baby! I asked her a few times if she needed to check me. I could see on the monitor that I was having consitant contractions and I could feel pressure too. She said, "Oh no, I don't need to check you. If your water breaks I will." She FINALLY came back into the room around 7:00, shift change. She also told me that the on-call Dr. had been waiting for her to call when I was ready. The next Dr. would come in between 8:00 & 8:30 to break my water. I was done "waiting". The new nurse came in at 7:00 and I asked if she was going to check me. She told me that she could but there was nothing she could do until the Dr. came in to break my water. I just wanted to know where I was. The Dr.(one I hadn't ever met) came in at 8:45. I was at 9cm. He broke my water and went to deliver another baby. The nurse checked me and said that the babies head was "right there". When the Dr. came in they said they could see his head. I pushed about 1 1/2 times and McKay was born at 9:35am. Thinking back on it now, it really did go smoothly and rather quickly compared to some. I was just being impatient and wanted him to get here. :)

He is perfect. He weighed 7 lbs. and was 20 1/4 inches. He has so much hair too. Jeff thinks he looks just like Kamden and I think he looks like me. :)

I am so thankful that he is here and that things went so well. I was so nervous about moving mid-pregnancy, changing doctors, delivering a baby in an unframiliar place, and being so far from family. My mom arrived later that night. Jeff and Kamden went to Raleigh to pick her up from the airport. Kam was so happy to see him GG. He chatted her ear off the whole way to the hospital. I was happy to see her too.

We've been adjusting really well. Kamden LOVES McKay. Just enough to give him soft kisses but other than that, he doesn't really care that someone new has arrived. Kamden likes carrying the binki around and showing it to us. He's going to be such a good big brother.

Similarites between my boys:

Raining on the way to the hospital

Both 5 days early

Both 7 lbs

Kamden 20 inches/McKay 20 1/4 inches

What's on my camera right now?

Yeah, life hasn't been too eventful lately. But...here ya go anyway.

For Memorial Day, we went to the Natural Science Center.

Kam loves the place. Jeff has a facination with turltles. He was really sad that we gave ours away when we moved. Rachel and her kids are taking good care of our little Hippo.

Of course, THE DINO!

We went with some friends to a drive-in movie. We watched Night at the Museum 2.

(Kam is showing you his Sally car.)

Now, I really hate stray cats. I don't know why exactly, I think it has something to do with yuckiness and not knowing where they have been. However, Kam loves this one. Our neighbors have named it, feed it and take care of it so I guess it's not too 'stray'.

Kam could watch her all day. (Just as long as he doesn't touch it)

Oh and yes, my son carries this bag all over. He keeps his cars in it.

It's not femmy, it's practical.

Taking care of his dino.

He's been trying to feed his T-Rex his smaller lizard.
For his 2nd birthday, my Grandma Barthlome gave Kam a card with a dino on it.
I found it the other day and he carried it around all day and then slept with it for the next few nights.
I'm not kidding, it's an obsession.

PUSH!

Not me silly, Kamden.

So I've been trying to give Kamden some "potty-prep". He's been telling me when he's poopy for a while now so I've been trying to get him to tell me BEFORE he goes. Tonight, after dinner, I was getting him ready for his bath and he said, "Poop." I told him if he needed to go, to run and sit on the toilet.

Cutest thing. (Only cause it's a 2 year old doing it.) He ran into the bathroom holding the back of his bum. So funny. We took off his diaper, I put him on the toilet, and told him to poop.

Now, I'm going to give details so if you don't want them, just quit reading and look at the pics.

He sat there for minute and he let out a little toot. (giggle giggle) I said, "Good, keep going." Over the next minute or so, he tooted about 10 times. I was laughing so hard and had called Jeff in by about #5. We were all laughing, Kamden included. Then, we heard it...SPLASH! Yeah Kamo!

Now, I know, I know. People say that boys take a long time to potty train and that they are usually around 3 but yeah for Kamden. Hopefully this is the begining of a beautiful thing. (By beautiful I mean that we won't have 2 in diapers for very long.)

Both of these pics were just taken. They both have a shadow around my left side so they aren't completely accurate.

I look bigger in the 2nd one cause my shirt is gray & so is the shadow. Oh well.

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