OK, so last night I finally told Travis that we needed to tell them, basically before someone slipped up and said something to them before we could. He said ok and we rounded them up like a herd of cattle and sat them on the couch. For some reason Chase thought he was in trouble, hmmmmm maybe because 9 out of 10 times he is now a days. It's the preteen thing from what I understand.
Travis began with "Your not in trouble buddy, we have some big news to tell you guys." Both of their eyes lit up just like it was Christmas morning. "We're going out to eat, Papa's coming over," and then a bunch of other garbage came out too.
"NO," Travis said, "Bigger than that."
"This is going to change our lives." I added.
If you can't tell by now we were making the kids guess what the big news was.
Skylar sits up from her laying down position and screams out "You won the Lottery!!" Those eyes just as big as a deer in head lights. Travis and I laughed out loud with that guess.
"NO, but your on the right track with how big this news is." Travis said.
The whole time we have been talking to the kids Travis has been twirling Skylar's mini pink Nike basketball around the palm of his hand and his finger and then decides to stuff it under his shirt.
Chase pipes up, "That's gross dad, boys don't have babies!" So with that comment, I held out my hand for Travis to give me the ball. I then proceeded to place it under my shirt. The funniest thing to ever watch your child do is to put two and two together. You could see Chase doing the math and when he came up with the answer. The eyebrows rose and Travis and I said, "What do you think it is Chase, you obviously have figured it out."
"Are you pregnant?"he asks. Skylar then has a clue what planet we are all on now and her eyes light up, then a couple teeth start showing through, "Are you mommy?" Travis claps, for the kids have guessed what the big news is and we can all breath again, no more secrets. Chase decides to add his two cents before rising from the couch, "So...(slight pause) you're gonna get fat!" Nice, thank you Chase!! Then Skylar chimes in with her request for a sister as Chase quickly rebuts with his desire for a little brother.
For some strange reason I was worried that they would have questions, cause you know how kids are with those. None, not one!! So I thought I'd help, "So do you want to know about when the baby will be here?" Chase says "No, not really." NICE!!! Skylar says "Yeah, when?" I tell them around Halloween. He, the emotional Child that I have now crushed his world starts to tear up. I asked him what was wrong. He tells me that nobody in our family has a birthday near his, and he's dead serious when he tells me this. He is upset because this baby will be born close to my birthday and not his, go figure!!
So, the secrets out!!
2 comments:
It sounds like they took the news good! Tell Chase to be glad that he/she won't be born close to his bday or he might end up having combined bday parties! :)
My kids would bust out crying if I told them I was preggers...that is likely because they've already experienced what a baby does to your life. hee hee!
Skylar is not going to like not being the baby anymore. Poor little princess. :)
Okay I got one of these blog web-sites too. Now I'm trying to figure out how to work it. I feel like a MySpace virgin again! YIKES!!!
So cute how the kids took the news!
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