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Ways to spill the beans to parents over X-Mas?

blopez75blopez75
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Hello fellow bumpies!  My husband and I aren't particularly creative people (we're enginerds) and keep trying to come up with a cute and clever way of telling our parents of our pregnancy during Christmas.  Would you like to share how you did it or any ideas?  Thanks ladies!
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Re: Ways to spill the beans to parents over X-Mas?

  • Temp200154562509288Temp200154562509288
    We aren't doing anything special just an u/s pic in a frame as a present for my parents, DH's parents won't be here so we will have DD wear her Big Sis shirt and we will skype with them on the computer.
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  • AlishaMayAlishaMay
    A friend of mine got her parents grandma and grandpa frames with a picture of the ultrasound picture in it.  They made them open it up during the family gift exchange, so everyone found out together.  I always thought that was super cute!
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  • MrsEmmMrsEmm

    I was thinking of giving my MIL a framed pic of each kid - including the u/s in the last frame.

    BUT my DH just wants to hand our highlighted Chinese Baby Charts that say "its a BOY!!!" (even though we have NO idea what it is yet and are only basing it on the oh-so-accurate Chinese cal.) ?:P?

    Or you could find a 'worlds best Grandpa/ma' gift to wrap & give them.

    a platter of cookies that spells out 'we're pregnant!!'?

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  • MrsEricHMrsEricH

    With their first child, my BIL and his wife took a picture of themselves from a Christmas themed "ugly sweater party" and framed it with that mastercard saying.  Something like:

    Sweaters: $6 each, Party supplies: $55.... etc. and then said, Knowing there's 3 of us in this picture:  Priceless.

    We have our first u/s on the 23rd so we were going to get copies of the picture and then give it to them in envelopes OR video-tape the u/s on our new HD camera (Kodak's version of the Flip- love it!) and then show them, but we found out that the first u/s is internal (not getting THAT on camera, thankyouverymuch) and we couldn't wait to tell them because I was so sick.

    We ended up telling them at Thanksgiving- my parents via a toast at dinner, and his parents we just said "Dana's pregnant" out of the blue... but we got it on video and his mom SCREAMED.  Pretty cool :)

     

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  • MrsAmyBMrsAmyB
    We are giving them pictures similar to the one in my signature.  We will have an u/s pic by then, so we may give that to them too. 
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  • samanthamac81samanthamac81
    My mom already knows, but for my father... We were thinking about buying him a nice bottle of scotch and attaching a card saying To: David, Congrats Grandpa!! Merry Christmas!! This will be his first grandchild so we figured not only does he like scotch but he may need it as well :-P
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  • minnasmommyminnasmommy member

    my husband gave a toast and said, "to a new grandchild" and my MIL said "yes, some day" and DH said, "no, today!" and I handed my wine glass to DH. it took her a second but then she got it! ;)

    It was very impromptu, but great! :)

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  • OrangeTikiOrangeTiki

    Giving my parents this ornament:

    https://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product|10001|10051|939317|215589;221069;221093|null|P1R4SO|stores

    and putting in the u/s pic. Not especially creative, but it gets the message across!

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  • AnnDiDonatoAnnDiDonato
    I did a holiday frame ornament with the verse "Candy canes, decorations, presents glore, next year they will be a baby to adore!" Then it had our names and our guess date on it.
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  • CoastieWife08CoastieWife08

    We're giving our parents calendars of DD.

    On the July page, she'll be wearing her big sister to-be shirt and we'll highlight the due date.

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  • blopez75blopez75
    imageCoastieWife08:

    We're giving our parents calendars of DD.

    On the July page, she'll be wearing her big sister to-be shirt and we'll highlight the due date.

    Adorable! 

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  • butterball123butterball123
    imageCoastieWife08:

    We're giving our parents calendars of DD.

    On the July page, she'll be wearing her big sister to-be shirt and we'll highlight the due date.

     

    I love this idea!!

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  • BrownEyedGirl82BrownEyedGirl82 member

    We're also spilling the beans over the holiday...

    Cafepress.com had some great things - for my parents we bought an "I love my grandpa and grandma" bib and wrapped it (it'll be the last present we share); for his side - we have a one year old nephew that we bought an adorable shirt for that has a big penguin holding a little penguins hand and it says "I'm the big cousin" - sooo cute!

    Nervous about it though...?

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  • mysticportermysticporter
    LMAO at "enginerd" (I'm one, too).

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