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How to Tell the Family

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What are some creative ideas for telling the family about baby that you either did, know of or are planning?  I kind of have something in mind for my parents: The other day my mom called and said she was going through my stuff and I needed to have a girl because there is so much cute stuff at her house. We had just talked about Budlight Limaritas, those and pregnancy don't go together so she jokingly told me, "you need to finish those off and get busy" Well apparently we didn't need to finish them off. Things happened faster than I imagined so now I think I'm going to take the rest to her and dad and tell them we didn't need to finish them off. However, for DH's parents I'm unsure. MIL's birthday is late July, but i have to tell her before then because we have a girls trip planned and my SILs will be suspicious if I'm not drinking. I think we will just give her an early birthday present and have the card be from the baby... Just wanted to hear thoughts suggestions and maybe ideas for telling our brothers and SILs.
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  • Aloyssa2003Aloyssa2003 member
    i decided to get a couple baby bottles and put some flowers in them, kind of like a vase.  First I'm gonna wrap the baby bottles up with newspaper or something and have a little note on the outside that says "open me!" On the inside, attached to the baby bottle vase there's gonna be a note saying, "WE'RE HAVING A BABY!"  :D  We're doing that with both my parents and DH's parents this weekend! I'm so excited :D
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  • FutureMrsTownsFutureMrsTowns member

    well, for us, I found out on Father's day, and DH and I happened to be in town with both our parents. (we left on tuesday). so, I ran to the store and got three shirts, one for DH that says "world's best dad, hands down" and one for each of our dads that said "World's best grandpa, hands down" and it had a space for the baby's hand prints, which I left the sticker on, so when the baby comes we can put hand prints on them then.

    funny thing is, it took both DH and my dad a few seconds to get what I meant (probably b/c I woke them up with the shirts), turns out DH had sent his dad a text ahead of time :-/ overall though... was fun... 

     

    ETA: this is our first AND the first grandchild for both sets of our parents

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  • ElBellesMomElBellesMom member
    When we had our first, both of our parents had grandkids already. For Mother's Day I got each of our Mom's a charm bracelet (like on Etsy) with a hammered disc of each of their grandkids names on them. Then I included a charm that said "Baby Last Name". That was it, I just let them open it and waiting for it to sink in- it was so fun!
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  • Kristen1186Kristen1186 member
    My DH's parents are coming to visit the first week of July. So when we were at the beach last week we wrote our names + baby February 2013 in the sand and took a picture. So I am going to find a grandparents frame and put the picture in there. Once they arrive we will give them the wrapped frame as a welcome gift! As for my parents they live out of state too, so I may mail the frame to them or wait til they visit in August. I just don't know if I can wait til august. 
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  • sara7238sara7238 member
    We got a really cute shirt for my dog that had "only child" crossed out and "Big Sister" written on the bottom. We told everyone on Mother's day, so we just brought our pup and put the shirt on and waited for people to figure it out. It was really fun to watch the family look at the shirt and then realize what it meant and get excited. Since my family lives pretty far away, we emailed pictures and then called them and had them check their email while we were on the phone with them. It was a really big hit, though a couple people thought we were getting a new puppy at first.
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  • shipsshoessealingwaxshipsshoessealingwax member
    Our immediate families already know, but for extended relatives I want to make copies of our U/S photo & send them in cards announcing the pregnancy.
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  • renc9828renc9828
    We live far away from our families. So on our Skype dates on Father's Day, we had a shirt on Max that said Best Big Brother! It was really cute to see their reactions. Everyone was very excited :)
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