Jeremy and I wanted to keep it a secret until after all the doctors appointments, but we had to make some announcements. We first made the decision that we would tell our parents on the same day after the appointments and once we knew everything was ok and we were officially expecting. Well my dad had a business trip to Belgium and he was scheduled to leave on August 26th (the day of our first doctor's appointment). We made the decision that we wanted to tell my parents since my dad was leaving out of the country and in case something happened, I wanted my dad to know he was going to be a grandpa. Now it was deciding on how to tell them!
I wanted to be creative, especially since this was the first grand-baby!
We had just gotten back from Vegas celebrating my parents 33rd wedding anniversary with them. So I had picked up 2 baby bibs. One that said I love Grandma and the other that said I love Grandpa. I had them wrapped in a present. It was perfect because we were actually celebrating Jeremy's birthday with my parents so they didn't think anything of it that I had a present bag in the house with me.
After Jeremy opened up his presents, we told my parents that we had a late anniversary present for them. Sure enough, my mom already knew and so did my dad. They immediately started to cry. Which was the perfect reaction to the first grandchild! They opened up and saw the bibs and were ecstatic. So we officially told my parents on August 23rd... now they had to keep the secret!!
The next day we went back up to my parents because Jeremy helped my dad finish the drive way so this was a great opportunity for my mom and me to go shopping. We went to the Coach store and she bought me a planner so I can keep track of all the doctors appointments!!! So the baby's first gift!
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