Ok, I was so unsure of where to put this... I didn't know if it should go under Preg or General. Well, I placed it here and it should have went elsewhere, please feel free to move it. My feelings won't be hurt if I get a little  

Did any of you do anything different or fun to tell your family the sex of your baby? Or anything interesting on telling them you were preg?

I would love to be able to wait until I knew the sex to tell my family, but that might be a little hard. I also would like to have cake with the color blue or pink on the inside depneding on the sex of the baby.

For Jackson, our family wasn't too surprised since they all knew we were trying and doing all the infertility stuff. But, we bought each grandparent a little gift to tell them.

For Eva, nobody even knew we were trying, so they were all pretty much in shock. It was fun! I got Jackson a shirt that said "I'm a big brother!" and put it on him and drove him around to surprise the grandparents. It was funny though because they didn't notice his shirt at first and I had to point it out 

For the genders, we just told everyone. Nothing special.

Sean- I told my mom that I needed to talk to her. Then handed her the pregnancy test. Then just told everyone else. I told everyone earlier than I planned b/c we moved right after I found out. I didn't want to have to come up with an excuse for not lifting heavy stuff.

Maddy- Sean told everyone:
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With both, we just told everyone the sex.

Andrew was a big surprise. I bought some new Hallmark ornaments for my Christmas tree (new home, Noah's Ark (our nursery theme) and a kangaroo mom-to-be) and during a visit, showed them to my mom. The new home one made sense to her, since we'd just moved. She had an odd look on her face with the Noah's Ark ornament only because she didn't know the significance. The writing on the pregnant kangaroo was tiny, so at first she looked really confused. Then she saw the writing. Saying she was shocked is an extreme understatement.

With Steven's parents, we told his mom the same night as my mom. She was beyond ecstatic and we all decided to surprise his dad for Christmas. We wrapped up "I Love Grandma" and "I Love Grandpa" booties and my FIL opened them on Christmas Eve. FIL immediately looked to my then-SIL, who already had my nephew & niece. She said, "Don't look at me." So he turns to us, looking puzzled and I said, "You're going to be a grandpa again." He cried, he was so happy.

With Andrew's gender...we showed the u/s tape to everyone at my birthday party, which was the same day as my u/s...and was also my actual birthday.

With Annemarie, we had Andrew tell everyone, as he was talking fairly well. For her gender, my mom went with us to the u/s and then we told in-laws in person and they were so happy!

With Olivia, we found out the day before Andrew's 3rd birthday party. I bought money holder cards and tucked some $ into each of them. We then gave them to my mom & in-laws after Andrew's party, but while EVERYONE was still there. My MIL knew what it was before she even opened the envelope and started cheering. My mom started crying and then locked herself in my kids' bathroom...LOL My pregnancy & delivery with Annemarie were high risk and I'd been advised not to get pregnant again. So my mom's initial reaction was fear & worry about my health. Once she calmed down, she was so happy.

With Olivia's gender, my mom went with us again to the u/s and we told my in-laws.

Fun times!

For Eli no one knew we were trying, we got his parents and my parents together and met at the 99 restaurant, it had just barely opened so we were like, yeah come down and try it out with us Well, while we were waiting for our table we were sitting outside and I gave them each a little package to unwrap and they were bibs that said "I love my Grandma/Grandpa" and they all freaked out laughing and crying It was cool!

The second time when I was like 6 weeks I had gone to my mom's to either drop Eli off or pick him up and both my parents were there. I think I'd stayed after work and had dinner. Anyway, I tried to get Eli to say that there was a baby in mommy's belly He did try but they didn't fully understand him, so I had to repeat it, they were pretty shocked I think Eric told his parents over the phone. Everyone else I mostly just let other people spread the word.

Oh yeah the sex we just told everyone. My mom came with me for Eli's u/s actually. Otherwise we just phoned people and showed everyone who would look the pictures