I started yesterday with the little man. Before now I had told the little miss, but not the little man, as I figured she was more likely to forget, and even if she did say anything I could easily just say it was toddler babble. The little man is old enough though that people would take him seriously. So, until yesterday I had held off telling him.
I had him next to me on the couch, and I told him that mummy has a baby growing in her tummy. Straight away he was pulling at my clothes and trying to look at my tummy. I explained to him how the baby was very little now, but that it will grow and grow and that my tummy will grow and grow. He listened intently, and then looked at me carefully and asked "You're not joking?". I told him no, and he was very interested. I showed him some apps on my phone of pictures of babies at this stage of pregnancy (and other stages of pregnancy), and she he looked at that for ages. He has already asked me today if the baby is any bigger yet haha.
It's going to be really lovely being pregnant with the little man being the age he is. He understands so much and is so interested. I think we'll take him along to my scan, he'll like that I think. And having an independent midwife who will happily explain things to him along the way too... it will be really nice. So, now the kids know.
This morning, fairly early (after an early morning spew and some breakfast and a shower) we went to my mum and dad's house. We dropped off our presents, helped move some furniture around in preparation of tonight's Christmas celebrations, and of course, gave my parents their gift.
I told them we had one gift we wanted them to open before tonight, which they were curious about. But they opened it, and mum read out the poem while Dad followed along. Mum even got a bit teary and choked up! They were very happy for us, and it was such a relief to be able to be honest about how awful I've been feeling.
I then texted my brother and his fiancee with the news so they wouldn't be the last to find out.
Next, it was hubby's mum. She arrived at our house mid afternoon, and after she settled in we gave her her box. As hubby and I had suspected, she had suspected. She made some vague reference as to why she thought so, but we didn't really get it. Anyway, now she knows.
In amongst all this I have also been filling in some time make avatars for people on BB. I also had a quick play around with my pregnant avatar and came up with something I was happy with pretty quickly. I can't have it uploaded till I'm 10 weeks, but I'll put it here now anyway.
The only family left to tell is hubby's dad and partner. We won't be seeing them until Saturday I think, so in order to make sure they don't end up hearing before they're meant to, we are going to ring them Christmas Day with the news.
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