Announcing to Everyone

So after digging out of the 2 feet of snow we got, we headed down to Maryland to tell everyone the good news.  Amy carefully wrapped all the picture frames and we had planned on giving them to everyone under the guise that they were "delayed" christmas presents.  Our first stop was with Amy's parents who we met for lunch at Olive Garden.  When they opened the gift they were of course excited by the news, but interestingly enough her mom said that she had suspected Amy was pregnant a few days earlier.  Must be one of those intuition things that women who have been pregnant before have (this comes into play later).  Her dad claimed he was too young to be a grandpa, but we had to tell him that he has to go by his physical age not mental age.  One thing to note is that her parents responded to the gift quickly after opening it.  Keep this in mind for later.  We then headed to my parents house for dinner.  Again, we gave them the present to open and the second my mom saw it she flipped out with excitement and ran over to hug us.  My dad on the other hand was a bit confused.  It seems that he had thought this was just another present and had prepared his "oooo nice picture frame" response for the occassion.  But mom's reaction was confusing him, what's to be so excited about a picture frame? Then he takes another look at the photo and you can see the realization of what it is dawn on him, kind of like watching someone fill up a glass with water.  I think in all it took him about 3 - 5 seconds to get the effect, but when he did he was quite excited too.

After that we then went out to Friendly's for ice cream to celebrate (pregnant lady's choice).  The next day we went out to announce to my Grandma and Aunt Mimi.  Their reaction time was similar to dad's, but once they knew what the pictures were they were both just thrilled.  We also took this time to tell them the story about Grandpop being the 2nd one to know (see earlier blog).  This was certainly a bitter sweet moment for both of them, but we could tell that they were both so glad to know that Grandpop responded to Amy when she told him.  Now the time came to tell rest of the family as we were heading off to the OC reunion.  There's about 40 people at this reunion so our plan was to get to Grammy fast, give her the present and then spill the beans to everyone else.  So we did just that when we got there.  Now it took us a bit to explain what the gift was to Grammy as the room was quite loud and my explanation probably didn't make much sense as I told her it was her "great-grandchild".  Of course, she already has six other great-grandchildren so then she asked "which one?" to which Amy responded "mine".  She then put two and two together and started shouting "I've got number seven!" to the whole room (the whole family was in one room eating dinner and watching the football game so some may have thought this comment referred to the score).  And then Amy actually got a standing ovation (which I have to be honest I haven't seen before in a hotel room)!  We had a great time the rest of the trip talking to other people about their experiences having children and it turns out that at least 2 other people (Amy's cousin Des and her Aunt Lynn) had suspected she was pregnant when they saw her for New Years (reference earlier pregnant lady intuition comment).  But for the most part everyone else was quite surprised by our news.  It was really tough to keep it quiet so long, but it was a great feeling to see the outpouring of love we received upon giving the news to our friends and family.

Pistachio getting his/her first gifts from family (Cousin Dez and baby cousin Stella)!! According to Dez, Stella was a bit upset that she didn't know whether she could get blue or pink clothes...so she went for yellow! Sorry Dez :)



These are the baby bump pictures for week 11.  In case you're wondering, I am pushing out on the bottom one to make Amy feel better (she is not).