I also come from a family who can't wait to find out what we are having!! So it's fun for us to share it with them by doing a fun reveal! I come from a big family also that has always gotten excited about a new addition no matter what number it was for the family
We ar celebrating my moms birthday and Father's Day on Sunday, she always gets cheesecake for her birthday and we will either be putting raspberries or blueberries on it depending on the sex
My in laws don't live in the same town so we are going to send flowers ...pink if it's a girl blue if it's a boy! They have no idea yet ! We have one more week to go !
I do like this idea of making it a little extra special for grandparents. I'm not one for a big party or anything like that. But when we found out we were having a girl with DD we spent too much time on the phone immediately after. Sending flowers with a note would give us a little time first before they start bombarding us while making them feel special.
Oh, I'll add this one too. My friends on FB just filmed a little video of them finding out. They had the sex on a piece of paper and had their daughter open it. They showed the paper on camera, cheered, and kissed and that was that. Very simple and cute.
I actually really like that idea. That way, the people who don't care can skip it, and the people who do care aren't forced to pretend to care more than they actually do for 3 hours at a party.
First grandchild on both sides and our parents are ecstatic. I'm having smiley cookies (a Pittsburgh thing) with either blue or pink faces shipped to my parents, and I think I'll make filled cupcakes or whoopie pies (with a neutral color around the outside so it's not immediately apparent) for DH's parents. We'll probably text everyone else.
I saw this one I thought was really cute where you take pink and blue balloons and poke holes on the color your baby is not then have everyone grab a balloon that they think the baby is and everyone blows them up together. The color that blows up is the gender of your baby!
We find out July 11th, our best friends are hosting a gender reveal party. Our close family and friends will be there to find out with us. We will have balloons filled with paint (blue or pink) and will pop them to see what our little turckey is. Im excited to finally know, im a FTM also!
@queenwog I don't think it makes it complicated, it makes fun. We have been trying for a baby for 5 years and by some miracle we finally got pregnant. So having 5 years of sadness I think it's ok to make a big deal out of every mile stone, and every happy moment.
We have 6 parents between the 2 of us and this is the first grandchild for each of them. We just told everyone to come over to our house for a cookout and pool party since we don't get all of them together on a regular basis. Then we surprised them by opening a box with pink balloons in it and told them they are having a granddaughter!
The purpose of the day was to get the immediate family together and telling them we're having a girl was just a little bonus, but this way it ensured nobody would bring presents and it wasn't made into a huge sex reveal party.
I heard two ideas today..... A piñata where everything in it is blue or pink, or go to spotlight (in Australia) and give them the slip of paper and ask them to blow up some helium balloons in the appropriate colour and then put the in a big box. Then you take the box home and open it at your reveal party. I'm just going to do the cake thing myself and take some bets for a bit of fun!
@CEB37 My husband and I will know the sex, but no one else will. I'm making the cake and dinner. We are going to cut the cake and the colored candy will spill out revealing the sex to everyone else. This is in NO WAY a shower (no gifts, no games, just dinner and cake) just a fun way for my family to find out. I have a big family and we are always looking for excuses to get together.
I don't understand the need for an excuse. I come from avid family as well. My dad is one of 9, my mom is one of 6, and my H and I have numerous siblings. We want to get together, we do. NBD.
I just think the only thing that might be even remotely interesting about a sex reveal is the parents reaction. I mean, I just can't imagine caring that much about what sex someone else's baby is that I need a big announcement. I'm excited for my friends and family when they find out, sure, but...it just seems a little overboard when you already know.
Has anyone seen the Brittany spears inspired pregnancy/sex announcement? If so what did you think? Am I the only one who thought it was really well thought out, and creative but so lame? Had to ask but didn't want to start a new thread.
FTM here and I was wondering if any of you ever decided to find out the sex of your baby but keep it a secret from everyone? My DH is really set on us finding out what we're having, but not telling another person and letting them wait until the baby is born to find out. He feels like it will be the one thing that "unites" us so to speak; a secret for only us to share in this exciting time of having our first child. I'm slightly torn only because I'm afraid I'll be the one to blow the secret, by accident of course. I'm just unsure of what to do. Our appointment is this coming Friday.
(I apologize to anyone if this was something already posted in a previous conversation. I tried searching the boards before writing this but didn't have any luck finding anything).
We are having a small gender reveal grill out with our immediate families. Our theme is tutus or bowties?.. We aren't going all out just keeping it small. For our reveal we are making confetti poppers with pink or blue confetti in them that everyone will pull at the same time. And my husband and I are finding out at our appointment so we will already know. Pretty sure my parents, in laws, and nieces and nephews are more excited to find out the sex than we are! I don't think there's anything wrong with being excited about it and having a small get together. We will take pictures during the confetti poppers and use that to send to other friends and family as our announcement.
FTM here and I was wondering if any of you ever decided to find out the sex of your baby but keep it a secret from everyone? My DH is really set on us finding out what we're having, but not telling another person and letting them wait until the baby is born to find out. He feels like it will be the one thing that "unites" us so to speak; a secret for only us to share in this exciting time of having our first child. I'm slightly torn only because I'm afraid I'll be the one to blow the secret, by accident of course. I'm just unsure of what to do. Our appointment is this coming Friday.
(I apologize to anyone if this was something already posted in a previous conversation. I tried searching the boards before writing this but didn't have any luck finding anything).
We didn't keep the sex a secret with our first 3 and won't with this one. I am not that good at keeping things like that a secret, I get to excited about knowing plus I love to shop so eventually someone would find out. BUT we have kept the name secret with all of them and that was a lot of fun
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