Grandparents!

So how do you tell your parents that they are going to be grandparents?

As soon as we found out about Baby Loeffler, I thought long and hard about how to tell them.  Text message?  Too impersonal.  Send them an email?  Probably best to do in person.  Oh but wait, thank goodness for Pinterest! But the problem with Pinterest?  It gets so intense and sets the bar really high.

So after pondering for a few days, I settled on this:

 For Andrew's parents, we bought What Grandmas Do Best/What Grandpas Do Best by Laura Numeroff.  Find it on Amazon here.  We also framed our first ultrasound at 6 weeks.

For my parents, we bought The Ultimate Guide to Grandmas and Grandpas by Sally Lloyd-Jones.  Find it on Amazon here. Along with our ultrasound.  (This book was super cute and funny.  I highly recommend it.)

We went out to dinner with Andrew's parents and gave them their gift after we ordered.  They were thrilled and Beth already started planning out the nursery/playroom that she would have at her house for the baby.  We were thrilled to finally be able to tell someone (at just 7 weeks).

My parents were coming back from their spring break vacation in Cancun, so we waited until Saturday night when they got back.  They had a long day of flying, so we ordered Chinese food and settled in to catch up on some of Dad's shows.  I handed my mom the gift and she got it immediately when she saw the book.  She showed my dad the ultrasound while he was very engrossed in his show (mistake) so his response was "What?  What am I looking at Marcia?  Oh, uh, congratulations."  And back to his show.  He did congratulate us the next morning and said he was very excited.  But his initial response just makes me chuckle :)