How We Announced It

I was starting to get sick and having symptoms, so I knew the kids would start getting suspicious.  T and I decided it was time to announce it.  On Monday night, we had a family home evening lesson about family, and then for the activity, I passed out brown sacks with a note, a pair of baby socks, a pink sucker and blue sucker (these were all hints if they did not understand the note). 

I passed out the bags to each of the kids, and I told the girls to not say a word as they read it, because this was K’s first time, we wanted him to read it out loud.  M read hers the fastest and said, “I know what this means, I’m not dumb.”  J read and whispered, “Are we having a baby?”  and I got after her, because I wanted K to read his before it was really talked about.  Silly girl never listens (he he).  C was laughing, but I think it was at J.  Then K read the following:

Sugar and spice and everything nice or snips and snails and puppy dog tails is coming to our family September 16, 2013.  Congratulations big brother!!!  (The girls of course said big sister).

We had to talk to him about this because he was not sure.  He first said “I’m going to be 8!”  We told him that was true, but was he a big brother?  He said “We are having a baby!!”  He was so excited he almost cried.  He hugged me, he hugged his dad said thank you, thank you.  I have never had a child act so excited, granted he is older than they were. 

He is so thoughtful and asks about the baby all the time.  It will be a long 7-8 months for him. 

Then because our kids cannot keep secrets.  They were facebooking and texting friends immediately, I hurried and sent out a mass text with the following picture to everyone.

             M                     J                     C                      K            ?

The only one we had to personally call was my daddy, because he does not receive texts.  I thought my phone was going to explode with all the texts and calls, etc. 

All the kids are excited.  They started picking out names, they want to buy clothes.  They cannot wait to find out what we are having.   If I did not have morning sickness, I may have waited longer to announce because this is going to take forever for them, but crazy as it seems, I am already showing, so I guess either way I would not have been able to keep it a secret long.