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Fun ways to announce that we are having twins
My husband and I just found out that we are having identical twins!!! We are still early and waiting to tell friends. But we want fun and creative ways to tell people. Any suggestions??
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Re: Fun ways to announce that we are having twins
We took a pic of our girls each holding a pair of booties that said "our family is growing again....by 4 feet".
If you don't already have kids, you could just take a pic of the booties with a similar message
Me: Mom, I'm having two.
Mom: Two what?
Me: BABIES!
Mom: Oh, Meredith, I need to sit down.
True story.
I couldn't wait to tell and sent DH and my mom a pic of the u/s. Called my mom and she didn't get the message yet so I said well you know how we were joking around about twins, ya it came true. She screamed loudly and I heard her say twins on the phone so her WHOLE office, which is where my DH works, knew within a minute. SHe then must have called the world because my phone was blowing up all day! But it was ok with me made me happy she was so excited. DH ont he other hand was ready to beat up everyone in my family who said I should have the twins int he family, the day before we found out!
I think coming up with something original and fun would be a blast and nice to have such a HUGE secret between you and SO. We waited and announced our sex of twins with xmas card and DD holding a sign saying twin girls!
We waited until Valentine's Day and then updated our facebook status saying:
Roses are Red
Violets are blue
The (last name)'s are knocked up...
and guess what--
THERE'S TWO!!!!!!!
Oh man, I love these ideas, I wish I had been so creative!
We were too busy being shocked/panicked.... My conversation with my Dad went something like this....
Me: we had an ultrasound today, and there's two babies...
Dad: No ***!!!
Me: Yes ***!!!!
Oh well....
I am just about to post this photo on FB to announce. My favorite food are crabs, so that is why we used those. Hopefully people will get it! And we are posting on April Fools Day (the day after we tell our families in person) so that should be fun.
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Jeep Doll = Jeepie Doll
April Siggy: April Shower with Gerard Butler mmmmmm
When I posted on FB I came up with this ridiculous poem....laugh away.
"Although we don't know whether to buy pink or blue, we do know we will need not just one but two! (Our last name) Twins expected arrival June 12, 2012."
Sadly it still took some people a little while to figure it out.
I sent a pic of our u/s to my mom and bff and let them ask why there were two
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For our fb friends mil/fil had bought us a shirt from cafepress that had 2 baby faces where one said Marco and the other polo. So I took a pic of me wearing the shirt holding an u/s in each hand.
"If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane" -- Jimmy Buffett
We announced at a family reunion by showing an ultrasound picture to everyone and it just happened to work out:
SIL: It looks like two babies! Hah hah! (totally joking)
Us: Well actually...there ARE two in there.
COMPLETE SILENCE and then screaming/crying/chaos
And then: "Who's the other daddy?" .....
We had an u/s pic that showed both of our babies and the tech has written "Surprise! Twins!". We just showed that to our families.
We had already told immediate family I was pregnant, but we didn't plan to tell anyone else until after my first appointment at 8w. That was when we saw the big surprise that we had two in there.
I think my FB status said something like "well we had a cute pregnancy announcement ready for you, and then we saw two surprises." So everyone found out about the twins on the same day, including us!
I put a Facebook pic up of me holding a onesie. Caption: Guess what?
I left that up for an hour or do, then followed it up with a pic of me holding two onesies, caption: there's a little more to the story!
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For family, we showed the ultrasound after telling them we were expecting and waited to see if anyone guessed there were two! A few people did!
For friends on Facebook I put "+2= 4 ;-)" and waited to see if anyone got is :-). (these are our first)
I put on my fb page "The [last name] family is growing by 4 feet! Estimated due date of the [last name] twins November 19, 2011."
The sad part was, a lot of people didn't "get" that I Was having twins...hm. Don't think I could have spelled it out any clearer.
With my mom and MH's mom, we just called them. My mom thought I Was lying and didn't believe me until she saw the u/s pics.