Whitfield Edward Johnson "Field"

My best friend, Lisa and her wonderful husband Brad, welcomed their precious little boy Field into the world on Monday, June 14th.  Shortly after Fields arrival, they learned that Field has a congenital heart defect.  The doctor's term for it is double inlet left ventricle which means he has a three heart chamber rather than four.  As you can imagine, our hearts broke for this new family of three.  Field will undergo 3 surgeries...the first one taking place at 4 weeks of life, the second one will be at 6 months, and the last one will take place when he is 3 years old.  Field was able to come home from the NICU yesterday to his new home, which I'm sure he loved.  Sweet Field is blessed with such wonderful, godly parents but I ask that you keep them all in your prayers over the next months.  Please pray for encouragement, guidance and that God's hand is with the doctor's as they perform his first surgery. 

Below are a few pictures of sweet little Field and the Johnson family!  How precious is he!!

It's All Good...

AT THE KELLYS!!  We had our dr appointment yesterday and got a great report on little spice's growth.  To bring some up to speed, at my appt 2 weeks ago, my doctor was a little concerned because my stomach was not growing and I was not the size of someone at 31 weeks.  So he scheduled a sonogram for our next appt so we could chart the growth progress from our last sono in April.  As you can imagine being a first time parent, this sent me into panic mode and I left the appt in tears thinking LS was not growing!  Well, we are happy to report that LS is measuring right on target and is exactly where he/she needs to be.  My stomach is still smaller than normal but I can deal with that (my weight is still adding up - just going to other places rather than the belly).  Our niece and nephew were over at our house the other night and Kiersten kindly put her hand on my thigh and said, "It's OK Amanda, all of this will go away soon."  Patrick and I just died laughing!!!  What do you say to that...  But in all seriousness, we really want to thank you for all the prayers, texts, e-mails, etc with your encouraging words and love!  We appreciate them more than you know! 

Other than that - Patrick is in heaven as Tater is staying with us for a few weeks while his parents, our niece and nephew are in Colorado on vacation.  Tater LOVES Patrick and goes crazy every time he walks in the door.  Here are a few pics of them playing last night. I took these with my phone so they are a little fuzzy.