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How to tell my family!

I'm waiting until my after my doctors appt. Dh and I are wanting to wait until gives the ok! I'm wanting use my fur babys in the plan!

Any ideas?

Re: How to tell my family!

  • mrsskizmrsskiz member
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    You can make them t-shirts saying Im going to be a big brother/sister. Or find bottles size appropriate to the dogs and do a message in a bottle type thing. Or put bibs on them that say something. Do they fetch? Write your news on balls and have your parents come over and go outside to play and you both can take the first throw then make some excuse as to why your parents should throw it next and hope they see the message on the balls when the dogs bring them back.
  • Can you put I'm the big brother/sister tshirts on the fur babies? Or take a picture of them sitting next to a sign saying guess who is going to be grandparenst? Then put it in a frame & give it to the parents.
  • In the vein of taking a picture, I read someone's idea on one of these boards that was basically this:

    Have your DH take a pic of you and your parents, and instead of saying "Say cheese!" say "We're going to have a baby" and then take a picture of their reaction.  I thought that was cute.  Video may be better though to capture the whole reaction.  I don't think it always settles in very quickly.

  • those are all great ideas! I love them. We bought my mom and IL's bib's that say "I love my grandma/grandpa". We're giving the IL's theirs this weekend.
  • The thing that I wanted to do but didn't get the chance...

    Take a pic of you and your DH and frame it.  Give it to your parents with a card.  ***They need to see the picture before they read the card.

    Card reads:

    Picture Printing - $.30;  Frame - $5.24; 

    Finding out there are three people in the picture...Priceless!

    Doing it this way it may take them a minute to figure it out and you can soak up their reactions.

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  • I love all those ideas! Know which on are we going to use!
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