Announcement ideas?

[jemnj]

I don't think we have discussed this yet (sorry if I'm wrong) but how do you plan on telling family?  Any elaborate plans? 

I'm trying to think I've cute ways to tell our family but I haven't decided. I bought my DS a "I'm gonna be a big brother" shirt. I'm thinking of having him wear that and showing up to a family dinner like no big deal and see if anyone catches on.  I feel like if I do anything else they will know something is up. 

[mcncheese]

That's how we told our parents/siblings. I am going to throw the shirt over her Easter dress on Easter.... so it will be fairly obvious LOL

[onyx]

I've seen a few "egg-specting" announcements that I thought were cute. I don't want to announce until after our ultrasound on the 24th so as long as my ms and other symptoms don't give it away I will do some Easter announcement. Pinterest is a good idea generator.

[PonyGirl]

We told my ILs for my MIL's birthday. We got her a bracelet that says "I love Grandma" and a card made to grandma with a u/s picture in it signed, P, A, and Baby.

We told my mother by handing her the u/s picture and I wrote on it "Hi Mimi! I can't wait to meet you!" I had originally planned on giving her a baby charm for her Pandora bracelet but something happened with the order and it never went through so I had to improvise.

Both of my brothers live way out of state so I called them each and told them, it was their turn to come see all of us and I had them a deadline, about 9 months from now.

[jemnj]

onyx I like the egg-specting idea. I'll do some searching on Pinterest. I found cute ideas on there for announcing to friends on facebook. We all have converse sneakers so I want to take a picture with us wearing them next to another pair.

[rztrumpet]

We put DD is a big sister t-shirt, and filmed my mom's reaction (which did not disappoint).

we're going to take a picture with "September" tied around DH's neck, "October" tied on mine, "November" tied on my belly, and "December" on DD. And put that on Facebook.

[sweett11]

To tell dh and our parents, I put dd in a big sister shirt that I made. It's funny because it took dh 15 minutes and me telling him to look at her shirt for him to see it but the grandmas noticed right away. I've been pinteresting ideas to tell everyone else.

[colinsfebmommy]

Mar 11, 2015 14:13:17 GMT -5 onyx said:

I've seen a few "egg-specting" announcements that I thought were cute. I don't want to announce until after our ultrasound on the 24th so as long as my ms and other symptoms don't give it away I will do some Easter announcement. Pinterest is a good idea generator.

That is the route we are going. We are making little baskets for our parents and then my sister, each will have 4 plastic eggs. I am going to have my son color little easter pics and put one in each egg, but the yellow egg, will be our announcement. I will have him give them to them and say he drew you pics he wants you to open, that way they will open them right away lol

[USCgirl]

You ladies are giving me so many great ideas and I am getting egg-cited myself! I am torn on telling on Easter or maybe even after, since we like to err on the safe side and wait until 12+ weeks.

[sweett11]

Mar 11, 2015 14:55:56 GMT -5 USCgirl said:

You ladies are giving me so many great ideas and I am getting egg-cited myself! I am torn on telling on Easter or maybe even after, since we like to err on the safe side and wait until 12+ weeks.

My appointment is the day after Easter so we'll share after that.

[hismom12]

I had this shirt made for E to wear. I want to see how long it takes them to realize what his shirt says. My mom will probably recognize immediately.

[hismom12]

Sorry if that's huge on the website!

[lycih]

I have a "big sister" teeshirt to put DD in when we fly to see my ILs in a few weeks.
We probably won't do anything special otherwise, just tell people.

The FB announcement, since my EDD is actually 10/31, I've decided to do a three photo montage of Halloween 2013, Halloween 2014, and Halloween 2015 and do pics of DD in her costumes from '13 and '14 and a pic of her in her big sister shirt for the 2015 one. We'll probably "go public" around my birthday, and since Halloween is well-known to be my favorite holiday, we'll say something like "for my birthday, I'm getting a lifetime of halloween parties to plan!"

ETA: My birthday is towards the end of April, so I'll be ~13w then.  

[themrsjrd]

My husband decided on stamping some pennies with "grandma to be" etc and giving that out to the family. It wasn't my favorite idea, but he didn't like my more simple ideas like signing a mother's day card from the three of us so whatever lol. I'm sure the penny thing will be cute. If we could wait until my husband's birthday in June I'd want to do something big since it's easy to get the whole family together, but my husband is having a hard enough time not telling people now.

[PonyGirl]

Mar 11, 2015 16:09:23 GMT -5 themrsjrd said:

My husband decided on stamping some pennies with "grandma to be" etc and giving that out to the family. It wasn't my favorite idea, but he didn't like my more simple ideas like signing a mother's day card from the three of us so whatever lol. I'm sure the penny thing will be cute. If we could wait until my husband's birthday in June I'd want to do something big since it's easy to get the whole family together, but my husband is having a hard enough time not telling people now.

That exactly how mine is. He keeps wanting to tell everybody, shout it from the rooftops if I'd let him I think. But I keep telling him "just hang on, another month and we can."

[mynameiscarrie]

I don't really know how we're going to tell people really, but I know I want to Facetime my family and be like "I think yall should come for Thanksgiving again this year because my due date is November 17th so it's good timing" then see if they catch it. We won't tell family until after our first ultrasound though, and I don't know when that will be yet.

As far as the rest of the world, I want to do something cool but I hate everything I've seen because nothing is original anymore I'll probably end up hand-lettering something (it's a hobby of mine) for DH and I to hold and take a picture of or put it next to some baby shoes or something.

[karalee]

For the DH I had a fishing lure made that said "I can't wait to meet you Daddy"

For MIL we had a calendar made of pictures of DH fishing and on November we had " You're 'OFishally' going to be a Grandma"

For my mother I had a frame etched with "Grandma Est. November 2015"

For my sister I made a shadow box with a poem about being an aunt (She's 13)

[chimneygrl]

I think that I am going to take a picture of my son looking in the oven and say something like....Mommy says that there is a bun in the oven, but I don't see anything. (Pintreat has some of the best ideas.)

[karalee]

As for telling FB we'll probably do a photo with DH and I holding the fishing lure (See above) and attach the ultrasound to it. So, have us blurry in the background with the camera focused on the lure and ultrasound.

[soultrane]

I'm going to Disney next week and plan to take a Spaceship Earth belly pic as a preview of what I'll look like 9 months from now.

We didn't do anything super special for our immediate families - just called them after the positive test and surprised everyone because they had no idea we were TTC.

[teambrink]

I'm making my mom an Easter basket that will hopefully include an ultrasound pic in a frame. If I don't have a pic I will use some cute idea from Pinterest. I'm still trying to figure out what to do for his parents since they are in Ohio, but I've been looking on etsy and Pinterest for them. We won't see them until June so I will have to mail them something and have them open it while we FaceTime or something.

[mtnmomma13]

We did the big brother shirt for our families. We never did a big facebook announcement last time, so I doubt we'll do much this time. Niether of us are huge facebook-ers anyway, but it was kind of hilarious when we posted a pic of our son after he was born and so many people said "OMG I didn't know you were pregnant!"

[crazycatlady6]

I am a runner and I saw the idea on Pintrest to create a running bib with the racing number being our due date and other details on it.

[dazdareis]

I got DD a "This is what an Awesome sister looks like" shirt. She'll be wearing it for Easter dinner to announce to ILs and then I'll take a picture of her with it on and just post that on FB, and just have people figure it out if they do.

[sunfrogger88]

We are doing cutesy gifts because it's our first. This is what we have planned to give our parents this weekend. t

We are going to see my hubby's extended family over Easter and I'll be 9 weeks then and have had my first appointment so I have some time! After that we might just play it low key until Mother's Day.

[wormy42]

I went out and bought a bunch of cheap black frames at Walmart and a silver paint pen. I flipped the paper filler around to the blank side and wrote "coming soon! Nov '15". Then on the frames I wrote things like, " #1 grandpa/auntie/uncle and ❤ you grandma/GG". I figured it would just be a fun little thing for them to open and find out. We are jumping the gun, but we can't hold out... We're telling the family on Sunday. I'm so excited!!

[PonyGirl]

Mar 12, 2015 15:42:55 GMT -5 wormy42 said:

I went out and bought a bunch of cheap black frames at Walmart and a silver paint pen. I flipped the paper filler around to the blank side and wrote "coming soon! Nov '15". Then on the frames I wrote things like, " #1 grandpa/auntie/uncle and ❤ you grandma/GG". I figured it would just be a fun little thing for them to open and find out. We are jumping the gun, but we can't hold out... We're telling the family on Sunday. I'm so excited!!

We told our families at the first of this week, so I know what you mean!!

[wormy42]

PonyGirl I'm glad we aren't the only ones. We were dead set on announcing after the first u/s. But, our families would be very supportive if anything were to happen.

[PonyGirl]

Mar 12, 2015 16:49:07 GMT -5 wormy42 said:

PonyGirl I'm glad we aren't the only ones. We were dead set on announcing after the first u/s. But, our families would be very supportive if anything were to happen.

Our families are the same way. And honestly, as close as my mom and I are I couldn't imagine going through this without her, no matter what happens.

[kirotea]

I think we'll be telling family this weekend. My brother is home on leave (normally stationed in Guam) so I want to be able to tell him in person this time. I'll probably make a Big Brother shirt - we already have a family dinner planned so it's the perfect opportunity.