For fairly obvious reasons, we held off telling Sophia and Noah the big news. We didn't want to them to spill the beans for us, when we weren't quite ready to share the secret yet. I was sure that Sophia would be so excited that she would waste no time telling everyone she knew. And didn't know. To anyone who would listen, really.
After Tim got back from his trip last week, he decided he was finally ready to let the other kids in on the secret. But a couple days went by, and we still hadn't said anything to them. Then on Saturday morning, Tim woke up deciding that today would be the day, I guess. I had been excited to tell the kids for some time, so I think if we would have thought it through together a little better, I would have thought of a creative way to tell the kids and made a whole event out of it. But that's the difference between mom's and dad's. Tim started to tell the kids before I was even totally realizing what was happening, I think. As we're getting breakfast together, all of a sudden, Noah has somehow magically appeared at my side and lifts my shirt up to look at my tummy. I hear Tim saying, "What's in there?"
Noah very sheepishly answered, "A baby!" I am pretty sure Sophia giggled.
We didn't talk about it a whole lot more that day, except that I told them that the baby would come sometime after Halloween, but before Thanksgiving. (So great to have milestones to mark it by to help them gauge time better.) I think it took several days before it began to sink in for them. It must be especially hard when there is nothing for them to see yet.
Once Sophia and Noah knew, we ever so slowly started letting the cat begin to make it's way out of the bag. But we were still fairly selective in who we told, and it was still just a handful of people we came in contact with most frequently.
Our best announcement was to our nearest and dearest friends here in Colorado. We would be seeing them at the end of the week for a monthly dinner date, so that day, I dressed Sweetest P in the same "Big Sister" Tshirt we bought for Sophs when we found out baby #2 was coming. Things were a little chaotic as we got to our friends house, so it took Erika a couple of minutes before she caught the message in the shirt. But it was well worth the wait, and our most fun announcement. It was also the most excitement and enthusiasm shared with us when telling of the arrival of our 4th.
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