Week 27: Big News

This has been a rather quiet week for the Johnson Family - which is a lovely thing, really!  It is especially fortunate for Kent, who is coming down with a really bad cold.  A quiet week means that he can take it easy and rest, including sleeping in on Sabbath morning.  But no, Kent woke up on Sabbath morning at 5:30AM, decided that he felt just fine and went out for his normal bike ride.  Of course, after he got home, we all rushed around getting ready for church and then, while we were sitting in the sanctuary listening to the sermon, he started feeling even worse than before.  Poor fellow.  He spent the rest of the day in bed while I got to have Erik all to myself.  We played with toys, read stories, went for a walk and took lots of pictures & videos.

Cutie Pie

Erik loves his burp clothes!

I forgot to post this last week but some exciting news was revealed last week at the Saturday night party.  We got together with our friends, the Cochran’s, the Deininger’s and the Zbaraschuk’s for the kids’ Christmas gift exchange.  The BIG NEWS is that two of the families there will each be growing by one member later this summer!!!  Amy is due with her third baby in early August and Heather is due with her second in mid-July.  Two new babies within a month of each other - and their birthdays will book-end Erik’s!  I was super excited to hear the news.  Both families made their announcements in unique ways.  Amy had Zachary put together a puzzle that showed the Z-family sitting in chairs of step-down sizes, with the smallest chair empty. The puzzle said that by August 2012, all the chairs would be full.  I had seen the picture before and as soon as I recognized the chairs, I started screaming and jumping up & down and running around in circles.  Actually, Amy said I was really calm, but in my mind, I was running around, jumping up & down and screaming!!  Before anyone else had read the script on the picture, I yanked Kent into the room so that he would be there when the puzzle was solved.  He likes to tease Karis about having a 3rd baby and without looking at the picture, jokingly asked Karis if this was how they were announcing their third!  Karis just smirked and said maybe.  Kent then looked back at the picture and had to pick his jaw up from off the floor.  He couldn’t believe it!!  

After that, we all settled in to look at a slideshow of William & Heather’s trip to New Zealand that they had taken over Christmas.  We were all enjoying the pictures of the beautiful scenery and the fun train ride adventure they took, when up popped pictures of William & Kieran (their 3-year old) sitting with their heads on their hands looking at something we couldn’t see.  Then all of a sudden an ultrasound picture was flashed onto the screen!!  The screaming & shouting that took place then was doubly loud from before.  Again, this may be more in my head than what actually happened, but I’m pretty sure that there were at least a few very loud gasps and exclamations of “What?? Wait - go back!!!”

Needless to say, I am super excited for Amy & Heather both.  Erik won’t be the baby in our group for much longer.  Now, if just one of the pregnant ladies could have a girl and break the trend of all boys (for those of you who may not know, between our 4 families there are 6 boys)!