Telling the Parents

We told our parents a few weeks after we found out we were expecting. I couldn’t keep the secret and was bursting at the seams to tell everyone!

For my parents and sister (B), I emailed my mom asking if they would be up for making us all breakfast that Sunday so she could have all her kids over! But apparently I wasn’t as stealth as I though I was, because I guess it had crossed both her and B’s minds when I sent the email that maybe I was coming over to announce I was pregnant!

On the Saturday night before breakfast, we had our 2nd Annual US Thanksgiving Dinner with a group of our friends. My sister was there and over dessert we joked that I should announce I was pregnant at breakfast as a joke, since mom was expecting it. Little did B know I actually was!

Gord and I decided that since the baby was due on my dad’s Birthday, August 6, we would get him a birthday card from the baby saying “Happy Birthday Grandpa, I can’t wait to meet you on or near August 6, 2009”.

It actually took Gord and I quite a while to convince my parents that we really were pregnant and not just teasing them since B had been joking about it all week!

For Gord’s parents, we wrote up a Christmas list for his mom since she had been asking us for a list of things we wanted for Christmas for quite a while, but this list had all baby related items on it. When we got there on the night of Light up, I went into the computer room and printed off the list.

When I came out, I handed the list to Gord’s mom. She was so busy telling us that the list was too late and she had already got everything that she hardly noticed the items on the list even though she kept glancing down to read it. I’m pretty sure she looked at the list twice before she realized what was on it… then she looked up at us, looked down at the list and for the first time I think she was actually speechless!

Gord’s dad showed everyone who came to the light up that night the list as soon as they walked in the door!

P.S. This week was quite a wordy post but from now on I am planning on starting Wordless Wednesday! Starting next week, I will only post a picture or two on Wednesdays with out any captions, or explainations.