November is about to become the biggest month of Liz Johnston and Brice Bolden’s life together — and most of it has already happened. On Tuesday, November 3, their daughter Leighton turns 3. Five days later, on November 8, Liz and Brice celebrate their first wedding anniversary. And in the middle of it all sits an 8-week-old baby boy, Coleman, who turned two little people who once felt like roommates into a family of four.
It is a lot of milestones for one month. But for the couple fans first met on a 2019 prom date, the timing feels almost poetic: seven years after they started dating, they have a home, a marriage, and two children — and a brand-new season of 7 Little Johnstons about to show the world how they got here.
A November Full of Milestones
Start with the calendar, because it tells the story better than any trailer. Leighton Drew Bolden was born on November 3, 2023, weighing 5 pounds, 10 ounces. She was the Johnston family’s first grandchild, and she arrived just as her parents were rebuilding a relationship that had nearly ended. Now she turns 3 — old enough, her parents have said, to be stepping into her role as a big sister in earnest.
Then comes November 8, the first anniversary of Liz and Brice’s wedding in the field at the Johnston family home in Forsyth, Georgia. Around 80 friends and relatives attended, Leighton served as flower girl just five days after turning 2, and Liz later called it the best day of her life. It was also a bittersweet one: Trent’s mother, Nana, had died weeks earlier, having hoped to attend the wedding.
And then there is Coleman. Born September 8, 2026, by scheduled C-section, he is now approaching two months old — which means that by the time Season 18 premieres on November 17, Liz and Brice will be celebrating their anniversary as parents of a toddler and an infant, all while television audiences watch the pregnancy that led to him.
From Prom Date to “We’re a Team”
Liz and Brice’s story is the longest slow burn in the Johnston family. They met in their Georgia neighborhood and began dating in 2019, attended prom together, and then hit the wall that nearly ended them: living together started to feel, in Liz’s own words, more like roommates than a couple. She said she did not want a relationship that felt merely comfortable, and the pair split.
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“Marriage officially made them a family and a team,” Liz said after the wedding. A year later, that team has doubled in size.
Two Kids and Done: Why Coleman Completes the Family
When Liz and Brice announced their second pregnancy in March 2026, they were clear about one thing: this baby would likely be their last. Liz has said Brice only wants two children, and she told fans plainly, “this baby is going to be our last baby.” The announcement photo said the rest — Leighton pushing a toy stroller filled with big-sister goodies, a sonogram tucked inside, and a book titled “I Am a Big Sister.”
Coleman Brice Johnston Bolden arrived on September 8, 2026, named for his father and a paternal great-grandfather. “Our family is complete, with this happy handsome bundle of joy,” Liz wrote on Instagram. The couple told TLC they were “so looking forward to watching Leighton and Coleman grow up together” — siblings just under three years apart, growing up in the same Georgia home where their parents’ story began.
One question remains unanswered, and the couple has not rushed to answer it: whether Coleman, like his mother, has achondroplasia. Leighton is of average height, like her father. With each pregnancy, Liz and Brice have faced a 50 percent chance of a baby with dwarfism — a detail they have handled publicly with unusual grace, saying they would have been happy either way.
What Season 18 Will Show — and What It Can’t
Here is the strange, wonderful tension of the next few weeks: Season 18, premiering Tuesday, November 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on TLC, follows a pregnancy that real life has already resolved. The trailer shows Liz preparing for a scheduled C-section and voicing her fears on camera, Brice admitting he felt unprepared for the emergency decisions doctors might ask of him, and Amber talking about the risks of Liz’s second pregnancy. Fans already know how it ends — with a healthy baby boy home in Georgia — and that knowledge makes every trailer moment hit harder, not softer.
That gap between screen and real life is exactly why this next chapter matters. On television, Liz and Brice are still counting down to a birth. In real life, they are already living the part that comes after: the sleepless nights, the toddler learning to share her parents, the first anniversary of a marriage that survived a breakup, a wedding shadowed by grief, and a pregnancy that scared them both.
So here is the question for the group: which part of Liz and Brice’s next chapter are you most excited to watch — Leighton owning her big-sister era as she turns 3, the couple’s first anniversary as a family of four, or the Season 18 pregnancy storyline you already know ends in baby Coleman? Drop your pick — and tell us the Liz and Brice moment that made you a believer in the first place.
