12 weeks - Telling the In Laws!

Up until now, I've been driving a Magna (5 seater Sedan) , but with the impending addition of baby number 4, we've had to upsize to a 'people mover'. 

Now I'm not the kind of person who thinks that you need to wait till you're 12 weeks to share the happy news (Though i fully understand doing so!!) But i do love to keep it a secret for atleast awhile! (It makes me feel skinny!)

With Baby 1 and 3, we shared the news fairly early in the piece, and with baby 2, i managed to hide it from friends until 20weeks! (we told family between 11 -14wks). This time, we went with somewhere in between. I told a sister or 2 straight away (and a few others found out because having a big family means no-one can keep a secret!), but we held off telling my husbands family until we were felt we were ready.

This time came a little earlier than expected, when our car of choice (Mazda MPV) came up in a search severely under priced! We snapped up the bargain, but then had the small problem of the big white car sitting in our drive way! AND the inlaws were coming to visit less than a week later!

"We could park it down the road?"
"Say its someone elses and they're just parking it here at the moment?"
"Tell them i wrote off the Magna!!"

Yes, all good stories, but we thought we should come clean!
It was at about this time that we also realised our eldest daughter (who is only 3!) actually knew what the word 'pregnant' meant, and had actually understood all our hushed conversations!
"Mums going to have a baby!" She announced to her father one morning.

The cat was out of the bag!

So came the day, just short of 13 weeks, when My mother and father in law came to visit.

"Whose car is that?" They asked, to which i replied, they'd have to ask Elliott!
When she emerged from after her nap, she joyfully told them it was "OURS!"
" What about the green car?" I asked
" It doesnt have enough room" She replied
"Not enough room? Why not?"
"COS WE'RE HAVING A BABY!"

Yes that conversation took alot of practice, and a bit of coaxing to get it out of her, but it passed on the message sufficiently! The soon to be grandparents (again) were quite excited for us, and shared our same hopefullness that we might finally get our boy!

To cut a long story short, we attempted the same conversation the next day when we arrived at the InLaws house for family lunch, but My husbands sisters and brothers got a lot more gibberish than the day before.
Still, Elliott passed on the message!
And by the next night, It was posted on Facebook! (As you do!)