How I plan on telling my family :) What about you?

JasonKristen

So I have told a few of my family members and some close friends already.  Now I was thinking about how to tell the rest of my family and I have decided to make baby shaped cut out cookies that say "Baby P Coming May 2011" and bring them to one of our family gatherings.  I am so excited and just wanted to share with everyone!  

Has anyone else thought of ways to tell their family?

jenerally?

I'm going to hire a clown to jump out at everyone during thanksgiving dinner.

when they are all passed out from fright, I'll let them know. It'll go better that way.

Gina418

That's cute! I wish I was creative like that, I just said "I'm pregnant"

mrsbookworm

Gina418:

That's cute! I wish I was creative like that, I just said "I'm pregnant"

This...

bdunbar

I might steal the clown idea

lincrane

This will be the first grandchild on my parent's side so we are going to get a grandparents frame and put the u/s pic in it. My mom is going to die!

My husband's parents already have 3 grandkids so we are going to have our newest niece wear a onsie that says something about a new cousin.

We can't wait! It is so hard not telling! Have fun making those cookies...you should post a pic of them

ckolak:-)

With DS we told at our housewarming party. I made a sign with our u/s pics and said "January 2008" on it, and I wore a shirt that said "Growing a Broncos Fan" on it.

This time DS got to wear the shirt, and it says "I said I wanted a baby DINOSAUR. Mom and Dad misunderstood." on the front and on the back it says "Big Brother 2011." It was very cute. 

babywing

I'm not sure yet. We already told my parents. I figured if something went wrong, they'd be the other people (besides DH) that I'd need to go to. Everyone else, not sure. My parents have a xmas party right after week 13, so might do it then, but not sure. I have a big bro shirt for DS so might do that for my brother.

amanda1128

We are giving a "Big Brother" shirt to our DS at his 1st birthday =]

mmks

We conceived on vacation in Jamaica, so when my mom came to visit us, I gave her a gift bag with my positive pregnancy test in it and told her that we brought her back a present from Jamaica! 

She was sooo surprised   Which is amazing b/c she is the best gift guesser EVER!

zenma

jenerally?:

I'm going to hire a clown to jump out at everyone during thanksgiving dinner.

when they are all passed out from fright, I'll let them know. It'll go better that way.

 

Omg I literally LOL'd from this. 

kelly321

We told my in-laws at my FIL's b-day party. We got him a card that said "Happy Birthday Grandpa." The funniest thing, though, was that he just totally skimmed over that and didn't even notice!!! And so DH had to say, "What we want to say with that is that we're pregnant."

DreamChaser246

ckolak:-):

With DS we told at our housewarming party. I made a sign with our u/s pics and said "January 2008" on it, and I wore a shirt that said "Growing a Broncos Fan" on it.

This time DS got to wear the shirt, and it says "I said I wanted a baby DINOSAUR. Mom and Dad misunderstood." on the front and on the back it says "Big Brother 2011." It was very cute. 

Way cute!

DreamChaser246

ckolak:-):

With DS we told at our housewarming party. I made a sign with our u/s pics and said "January 2008" on it, and I wore a shirt that said "Growing a Broncos Fan" on it.

This time DS got to wear the shirt, and it says "I said I wanted a baby DINOSAUR. Mom and Dad misunderstood." on the front and on the back it says "Big Brother 2011." It was very cute. 

Way cute!

wendylanay

With technology this day and age... we knew as soon as we told one - there would be a calling frenzy happening and without making the parents keep their own excitement "hush-hush" we decided to make a video and put it online the morning after.

We did still frame shots of us sitting together, holding up signs. My husband held up: "Finding...2 white t-shirts"  Then I held up: "$26" (and so on..) "Finding... 2 pairs of pants" / "$125" / then my husband wrote " Finding two people in this photo" and I scribbled on his paper where it read "Finding OUT there's 3 people in this photo!" and we both held up "priceless" and then kissed.

Everyone got to hear from us or through us that we were having a baby and share in our excitement. It was well worth the effort with family and friends living farther away. 

theresej24

For our first we found out just before Mother's Day, so we put a 4oz baby bottle in a little gift bag for each Grandmom as part of their mother's day presents.  My mom almost cried as soon as she saw it.  Hubby's mom took a little more convincing since we'd been married for almost 9 years already.  This time around it's twins so I immediately brought the 6week u/s over to my parents.  My dad caught that I was telling them that we're pregnant, but he didn't look closely enough at the u/s.  Then he stopped, "Wait, whose is this?"  It was so funny!  We phoned hubby's parents and she kept calling back to make sure it wasn't a joke. 

mandy0456

All of our parents are already grand parents and have names, i.e. Nanie and Pops. So, we have three sets of parents and each one was invited over for lunch (also my sisters kids b-day weekend so made it easier to get them together without them thinking anything). Each person was given a small paper sack with holes punched and ribbon and we told them it was a "little" gift for being such great family members and inside each bag was a little onesie that I had printed differently for each person. One said "I love my Nanie!", "My Auntie Becca Loves Me!", "My PawPaw Loves Me!, "I love my Mema!", etc. It took them a second to figure out what they were looking at but they all thought it was a great idea and had never seen that before! My husband knew what they were opening but he got one too that said "I love my Daddy!" he cried! It was great! Now, all family has a shirt they can have the baby wear that says he or she loves them.

expectingtrips

We hit 9 weeks on Father's day and right before my dad's birthday so we got a Grandpa Father's day card and put the u/s pictures inside (there were three separate pictures one for each baby) he totally missed the Grandpa on the card and then said oh another one when he saw the pictures. my mom who was looking over his shoulder was the first to notice the labeling of baby A and baby B. she looked at me and said "seriously" so I told her to keep looking until she noticed baby C. Needless to say the whole family was pretty surprised!!