When expecting G - sharing the news

G's first wave of announcing:

At home (I think a Sunday) I took the pregnancy test and eagerly waited. It was POSITIVE! I then put it in my robe pocket and walked out in the living room and told Rick. I think he thought I was kidding, but I quickly handed over the evidence. Yeah, smiles and joy all around! The timing on this was kind of funny because the previous day at Starbucks I asked how he would like me to tell him when we get pregnant. He said - "Just tell me". So the next day I was able to. Rick and I were very lucky and got pregnant pretty quick - about 3 months of 'trying' ;)

With Guinny, we almost waited 12 full weeks to share our news with others. We thought how my brother shared their news previously was really cute and copied it. For my mom's birthday we gave her a 'Grandma' photo frame with a sonogram pic in it. Our message was not clear. Ha-ha both my mom and brother did not understand, they thought we were giving her an additional way of displaying pics of her and/or Sophia (my niece). However, moments later my sister-in-law looked at the gift and at us and said something like "Oh my!" then "YEAH, congratulations" all the while my mom and brother stared at the commotion. We then announced we were expecting and all were on the same page. All of this happened so quickly, but I thought it was amusing.

We told my dad over lunch, but he totally was expecting some kind of big news. I give him some credit he is pretty astute mostly, but also guesses a whole lot. So he thought something was going on when I shifted our lunch plans to include Rick. We met at a local family (Greek) restaurant. After we all arrived, we gave him a card with an egg on the cover. Inside it said something like "it's a single yolker". He smiled and gave us big hugs and congratulated us. He said a few co-workers will be asking if I'm expecting when he returns to work since he shared his guess before he left. Ha! too funny.

On Rick's side, I believe we told Boompa and Nana first while just hanging out and visiting at their house. Pretty sure Mike was there too. And boy he seemed the happiest for us. He teased... saying he was excited/relieved it was someone else's turn for kiddos beyond their sister :) 


We also had to share our news with our best friends, which were also trying. We went out to brunch at the Waffle Iron (or some such place that no longer is open). They seemed the most shocked of all, happy yet realizing it is really happening and many of our couple events would be changing to family functions soon enough.