Our trip to Michigan this weekend was fabulous (more on that later), but the best part might have been when we told Corey's cousin, Ellie, that she was no longer going to be the youngest in the family. We stole an idea from Larry & Barb (who told Great Grandpa and Great Grandma Sims that they were pregnant with Corey by playing a game at a family party) and played a little game with her. We wrote down the name of each family member at the family party on 11 different index cards, shuffled them, and then taped one to each person's back. We each had to run around asking other people yes or no questions about the name on our own backs (like "Do I live in Michigan?" or "Do I own a cat?") to try and figure out which family member was on our backs.Corey made a card for Ellie's back that said something like "Corey & Niki's new baby that will be born in March." He handed it to Aunt Lisa to tape on Ellie's back, and that's how Aunt Lisa found out we were pregnant. Then, we all played the game while keeping a close eye on Ellie to see what questions she asked. She stumped everyone by asking "Am I a boy or a girl?" Aunt Lisa replied "yes!" Ellie looked a little confused. She then asked Don, "Am I a girl?" Don said, "I don't know." She asked someone else if she was a boy and got the same response.
Once Ellie was COMPLETELY frustrated, we told her to take the card off her back to see what it said. Her jaw dropped open and she got all teary. She ran up to Corey and gave him a bear hug, then found me for a hug. We all laughed and Granny got the great shots above.
3 comments:
YEA, another blog in the family!! Welcome to the strangely addictive world of blogging.
My mom thinks that you two should start a whole website where moms and dads to-be could post blogs about their babies.
That's a good idea from your parents. The problem is that I don't know if Niki and I are going to be that into our baby. What if we have the baby, but then start every conversation with "Yeah, we had a baby. So, let me tell you what our big black dog did! He's such a good boy!"
Who knows?
Actually, you can create blogs at www.babyzone.com and set them to be publc or private. I looked at that one and a few blogs other women had done, but decided I liked the Blogspot module better!
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