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- Emily Maynard Johnson’s son is celebrating his third birthday
- The former Bachelorette star shared a few photos on Instagram from her son’s special day
- Maynard Johnson is a mom of seven
Emily Maynard Johnson’s son is officially a 3-year-old!
On Monday, Sept. 1, the former Bachelorette and her husband, Tyler Johnson, celebrated their son Jones on his third birthday and shared a few photos on Instagram. Maynard Johnson included a video in her post of her family singing to Jones as he posed in front of a car-themed birthday cake.
She also included a group photo with her other kids — Jennings, 10, Gibson, 8, Gatlin, 7, and Nola, 4. Her older daughter Ricki, 20, was not pictured.
“Warrior boy is 3 ⚔️💙💛 Love you so much Jones!!!” Maynard Johnson and her husband wrote in their joint caption.
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The proud mom welcomed Jones, who was born with Down syndrome and a rare congenital colon abnormality, in August 2022.
“I am so grateful,” Maynard Johnson told PEOPLE exclusively at the time. “But I’m still on my journey of processing everything. And I have to trust that it will all turn out alright.”
“I was in shock,” Maynard Johnson recalled of the moment when she was informed of the Down syndrome diagnosis. “It was not on my radar at all. And I refused to believe it. I just wanted to hold him and for everything to be okay.”
“He’s the easiest baby and he’s just been our biggest blessing,” she said. “I’m still learning about Down syndrome, but I’m trying to also just experience Jones as Jones and not as different than any of the other kids.”
Last week, Maynard Johnson’s older daughter, Ricki, shared that she’s expecting her first baby, which will make the former reality TV star a first-time grandmother.
Ricki announced the news on her Instagram Stories, sharing a screenshot of her phone’s lock screen, which showed a photo of her sonogram.
“‘Netflix told me I’m not allowed to talk about it’ – Huda,” Ricki wrote in text next to the photo, alluding to comments made by Love Island USA‘s Huda Mustafa at the season 7 reunion.
In her second slide, the soon-to-be mom showed a short clip of an ultrasound showing her baby girl moving in her belly. Ricki shared that her “heart is so full,” joking that her stomach is not.
“My heart is so full, yet my stomach is so empty because she hates all food. i’m convinced,” she wrote over the clip.
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