Drum Roll, Please...

We have an announcement...




(Are you ready for it?)





(Make sure you are sitting down)





(Don't pass out now)





(OK, here is our big news)

WE'RE UPDATING OUR BLOG!

(cool, huh?)

(oh, and we had a baby)

That's right, we now have five kids! Introducing Benjamin Jay Johnson, (or as Ethan calls him, "Ben-men"). The following is an actual conversation we have with almost everyone whenever we are out with just Benjamin:

Stranger: "Oh, how cute! Is this your first?"

Us: "Actually, he's our fifth."

Stranger (looking like they've just seen an alien): "Whoa!"

At that point they stop talking to us because they are obviously not used to talking to crazy people. So, they just kind of go away.

But we are so excited to have Benjamin in our family! We love him (and we even had him on purpose!). Sherrie is recovering nicely from her fifth C-section, and the older kids adore him.

Benjamin Jay Johnson
April 24th, 2009
9:59 am
8 lbs 7.5 oz
19 inches short

And he's way cute!

So you know how people are always asking, "Is that a boy or a girl?" Well, we came up with an innovative way of making sure everyone knew our baby was a boy. We dyed his entire body blue!

Actually, Benjamin was pretty jaundiced when he came home from the hospital. A week after he was born his bilirubin (which is a cool word) levels had gotten pretty high and he had lost about 13% of his birth weight, so the doctor insisted that we check him into the hospital. They took our then very yellow baby (which is one of those colors that could be for a boy or a girl) and put him under blue lights (very masculine) and he came out pink (which is not masculine at all!).

He does look awesome with those sunglasses velcroed to his face, though!



So there you have it! We updated our blog, and it even had some no-kidding news in it!