Cody Johnson is a father of three! The 38-year-old announces his wife, Brandi, gave birth to Jaycee Daniel Johnson on October 21, waiting until now to share the good news.
Johnson reportedly dropped the news while on an upcoming episode of Country Countdown USA. The news was confirmed by Johnson’s record label. Jaycee joins big sisters Clara and Cori, and chances are, Johnson’s two daughters will excel as big sisters.
“They keep calling it our baby,” Johnson says on SiriusXM‘s The Highway.. “’Well, when our baby gets here. When our baby we are …’ And I’m like, ‘This is not a we. Y’all are still kids.’ But then it hit me: I’ve [got] built-in babysitters. Clara’s ten, Cori’s eight. So this boy is screwed.”
Johnson adds that Jaycee will also have different circumstances than his two daughters, when they were born.
“[I’m] a lot better off now as far as career and financially, than I was when we had [my daughters]… He’s gonna get a horse a little quicker than my kids did,” Johnson tells People. “He’s going to get to do some things a little quicker than my daughters did.”
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How Cody Johnson Wants to Raise His Son
Johnson grew up in Texas, and plans to incorporate a lot of outdoor activities into Jaycee’s childhood, much like his Johnson’s own childhood, although the reasons might be different.
“He’s going to get to grow up differently than I did,” Johnson admits. “I grew up going catfishing a lot and hunting a lot, whether it was squirrels or rabbits or deer, whatever, duck, whatever it was, dove…but a lot of that was out of necessity. Not that we necessarily couldn’t afford certain things, but it just made life a lot easier. Whenever you go out and you catch 24 catfish and you clean them, and now you have meat in the freezer.
“We were told trophy hunting is for rich guys,” he continues. “So, when you went hunting, if it was a doe, you killed the doe, and that was all the meat was used. But for him, he’s going to get to grow up and not have to worry about that. So now he’s going to get to just go hunt for fun or fish because he likes it.”
A lot of how Johnson is raising his children is similar to his own childhood, but not all of it. The Texan acknowledges that much is different, thanks to raising his family on a large ranch.
“I didn’t grow up with horses and cows,”Johnson says. “That was a lifestyle choice. I rodeoed riding bulls, but riding bulls is a far cry from being a successful cattle rancher or a horse breeder like I am now. So, he’s going to get the opportunity to grow up being a cowboy and working, actually growing up working dad’s actual functioning ranch. And he’s going to learn so much more about how to breed horses and what time, and how to put bulls on cows at a certain time, and what breeds does what, and how to make sure that your coastal Bermuda grass grows on time so you can cut the hay on time, and all these different things that have nothing to do with the guitar.”