Telling the Kids...

We didn't really have a good idea of how to tell the kids that we were going to be having a new baby in our family.  We played around with a few ideas, but then right before supper on the night we needed to tell them, we came up with this simple idea that turned out to be super fun!

We started by making a "fancy" dinner... which at our house is pretty much any dinner on our china plates.  We got out the nice table cloth and candles, and we even put the fruit salad we were having in a Champaign glass.

The kids started asking why we were eating supper in the dinning room, but we do that every once in awhile so our, "just because" answer was good enough for them. 

They didn't even notice that there was a small "extra" plate at the end of the table.

Once everyone had food on their plates, I said, "Oh no... not everyone in our family has food on their plates."  The kids started looking at everyone's plates and were slightly confused because to them it seemed that everyone did have food on their plates.

 

Then I got up and put an empty baby bottle on the extra plate at the end of the table and sat down.



Right away Ainsley said,

"Oh!  I get it!  We are going to save up money in the bottle for kids who done have much food!" 

(just a note: this is what one of her grandma's does for a mission project at their church...) 



We said no.... why else do you think we have a baby bottle at our table.

Kallan said, "because we need something that has sauce on it... like a pizza!

???????? 

(can you tell he's three and Captain Random!)

No.........  :)

Then Liam said, "Are we having a baby?"

 

As I nodded my head... all the excitement let loose! 

Ainsley immediately said, "What is it?  Are you going to be pregnant?!?!"

Liam said, "Where'd you learn that?  How long have you known?"

Lots of smiles! Lots of giggles! Lots of "Oh my goodness!"  Lots of, "I must be dreaming!"

Kallan was pretty oblivious toward the whole thing.  When I told him mommy had a baby in her tummy and that he was going to be a big brother his response was as he looked at his fruit salad...

"Can I try the blueberry?"

 

Other topics of conversation... what we should name the baby.

Ainsley quickly thought that if it was a girl, we should give the baby a name exactly like hers without an "i"... so she thought Ansley would be a good name.  ;)

 

Liam said that whatever we have, the first name should start with an "E" because we have an

L.... A.... K.... and it would just make sense to have an E so we could spell, LAKE!

 

:)

 

It was such a special evening... filled with so much joy and excitement!  And without a really good plan heading into the evening, it turned out the perfect way to tell our kids!