Emily Maynard Johnson’s son Jones.Photo:Emily Maynard Johnson/Instagram; John Fleenor via Getty

Emily Maynard Johnson son Jones

Emily Maynard Johnson/Instagram; John Fleenor via Getty

Emily Maynard Johnsoncan’t get enough of her adorable son.

On Thursday, the formerBachelorette, 37, shared a sweet photo of her 16-month-old son Jones, who smiled as he sat in a shopping cart.

Wearing a gray beanie and matching gray onesie, the toddler placed a hand on the cart and looked up with a big grin as his mom snapped his photo.

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Maynard Johnson is mom to six kids — Ricki, 18, Jennings, 8, Gibson, 6, Gatlin, 5, Nola Belle, 2½, and Jones - whom she shares with her husband Tyler Johnson, 33.

In October, the starhad a relatable mom moment as she got ready to celebrate the spookiest holidayof the year with her kids. In a photo shared toher Instagram, Maynard Johnson’s son Jones smiled as he wore a boxing costume, complete with his own name on the gloves and waistband.

“The only picture I took the entire day of Halloween,” the mom of six wrote in her caption. “How is everyone getting their family to dress the same AND smile for a cute family picture??”

In August, the proud momposted a sweet phototoher Instagramcelebrating her sonJones. In the photo, Maynard Johnson smiled as she carried her son, balancing her phone between her fingers.

Jones laughed at the camera as he posed in his mom’s arms, one hand touching her phone.

“I’m so happy I didn’t stop at five. I love you all the way to heaven Jones West. ❤️,” she captioned the photo.

The proud momwelcomed Jones, who was born with Down syndromeand 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.”

source: people.com