The Johnson Family Grows

Do you remember how in this post, I mentioned that Chris and I would be adding to our family very soon?  (It's at the very bottom.  Very small.)  Well, it's happening!  :-)


I've wanted a baby since I was a baby.  They're so wonderful.  Tiny, little miracles.  How on earth can something so small be so wonderful?!  Well, hormones have a lot to do with it.  Also, the weird invisible connection mothers have to their children.  Honestly, babies look like weird little aliens... Wonderful, fantastic, amazing, stinky little aliens!  And then they grow into children.

I respect children so much because of their constant honesty.  You always know they're being honest when they tell you how great you look wearing your leather bomber jacket, skinny jeans, or ankle boots... because they have no problem telling you how awful you look when you're wearing dress clothes with sneakers, pajamas as day wear, fleece, and/or fanny pack, and sporting butt cleavage, visible pantylines, and/or mullets***.  Kids really do say the darndest things!

Unfortunately, Chris and I are not quite ready to have any little Jr.'s running around quite yet.  False.  CHRIS is not ready yet.  ;-)  But it's a decision we've made together to wait for the time being.  However, Chris is never home, and I get so lonely.  We took in Chris's sister's dog to help deal with this, but we had to give her back because Caylee missed her baby.  Now I'm back to square one.

After a lot of research and calculations, we've decided to bring in a love of our own!  One week from today, I will be bringing home a beautiful baby Shihpoo.  That's a mix between a Shih Tzu and a Poodle.  (My brother and sis-in-law have a Shih Tzu that I absolutely love, but they're hard to train.  With a poodle's brian, Shihpoos are much easier to house train.)  

Our little Emmi.  We love her.

I'm going on a road trip with a friend to pick up our little baby.  Chris has to work and attend school, so he won't be able to join me.  :-(  I'm so very, very excited!  This little girl will LITERALLY be my child.  I will take her on errands with me. I will let her snuggle with me in bed.  I will be bathing and feeding her.  I will clean up her poo until she understand the "toilet" concept, and I will love her uncontrollably.  I already love her. 

I look at the pictures I have of her every single day.  I want to spoil her and snuggle her and play.  I know I won't enjoy taking her to the bathroom every fifteen minutes, but her bladder will grow strong she will learn quickly.  She.  Will.  Learn.

*** The fashion tips in today's edition of The Johnson's Junk is dedicated to Miss Marylou by special request, but you may take it as your own.  I googled those tidbits.  Clearly, I'm not much of a fashionista.  I wore every single one of those awful items today at the same time.  This picture is of me yesterday, in fact.  Good luck.