How We Told

I never shared how we announced to the children that we were expecting a baby. 

They knew we were wanting to get pregnant.  They knew (at least the three oldest) what the trip to Chicago was about last May.

So they would ask from time to time if I was pregnant and I so often told them, "No, not this month."

Finally, I was.  And I didn't just want to call a family meeting and spill it out after that long of a wait.  I wanted to do something to make it even more exciting.

I wrote a scrambled word on 5 different pieces of paper. I then folded those up and attached them to clues which I hid throughout the house.  The clues were to the next piece of paper. 

Waiting for me to finish setting up...

This was the first clue to the storage closet under the stairs...

They had to wait to open the scrambled words until they found all of them and made it back downstairs.

I was going to show a picture of the words unscrambled but Blogger won't let me!

Anyway, the message was, "Mommy is having a baby" and the kids were very excited when they figured it out. Yea!! A baby!!!