Creative ways of telling family sex of the baby? « Back to Group Discussions

[oregon2010]

We live across the country from our families.  We have a 3 yr old DD.  We find out what we are having in 2 weeks.  I want to share the news with our parents somehow, maybe through Skype?   I do not want to do the cake reveal or use balloons.  I am trying to think of something else.  Anyone heard of any other ideas?  I guess I could just do it the traditional way and just call them :) But it's our last baby and I just think it would be fun to involve DD somehow too.  Then maybe we would use same method for friends that live far away on FB. Let me know if you have any fun ideas! Thanks!

[LeighPF]

You could have the news put in a sealed envelope and then all find out together with DD opening it on Skype.

Big sister T-shirt, Little whatever shirt for you, or written on your belly (if you have a lovely belly you want to share at this point)

[Banana731]

Sending flowers? Pink or blue carnations? (do they even exist in blue? XD) send something small, like a teddy bear in the colors?

What about a picture of your hands holding booties in blue or pink?

[thecoffeebean]

Originally Posted by Banana731 

Sending flowers? Pink or blue carnations? (do they even exist in blue? XD) send something small, like a teddy bear in the colors?

What about a picture of your hands holding booties in blue or pink?

Great ideas here! Or, an easy idea would be for your DD to tell the family on Skype. My 3 year old likes to tell people big, important things, like her order at restaurants. :-)

[Edelweiss98]

We are doing gender cakes but since you don't want to do that, I would maybe have your 3 yr old say something about brother or sister. My daughter would love to share that news!

You could take a photo of your 3 yr old holding a sign that said little bro or little sister on the way and post that on FB....just an idea or holding pink/blue baby clothing.

[Banana731]

I know you said no cake thing, but I saw a video of the expectant parents cutting in to one of those cakes with the families on a Google+ chat. It was pretty cute how everyone got to get te surprise together. That's probably the sweetest thing about the cake (no pun intended), that you can include your family in on the surprise part that only you would get at the birth.

Maybe there is a visual way you could do that without cake? Get the sex in an envelope, bring it to a schmooey baby boutique (where I'm assuming they would do this kind of thing for you) and pick out an item that comes in boy/girl and pay for it. Then ask the store people to open the envelope and choose accordingly and wrap it all up in gender neutral paper while you wait in the car or have lunch. Then you can open it with everyone watching...something like that?

[HeatherB]

Interesting ideas! My family is local but wouldn't be at an u/s with us. This is the first time I'm considering finding out so I've never had to think about this!

[TiredX2]

Friends of ours did something cute when they found out (and had a toddler already).  They took a picture of all of their shoes lined up--- Dad shoes, mom shoes, toddler pink girl shoes and then a tiny little pair of boys shoes. 

[harmie0515]

Originally Posted by TiredX2 

Friends of ours did something cute when they found out (and had a toddler already).  They took a picture of all of their shoes lined up--- Dad shoes, mom shoes, toddler pink girl shoes and then a tiny little pair of boys shoes. 

That's how I announced our pregnancy on facebook.  I figured I'd go and update the spot for the baby with pink or blue booties when we find out.  

http://www.mothering.com/community/t/1376112/weekly-chat-thread-for-march-8th-14th#post_17292340

Not sure how we'll tell the kids/grandparents.  I like the ideas here!