Number Six!

One night I was staying up a little extra to practice my flute.  I was sitting on the couch assembling my flute, when a purple paper sitting next to me caught my eye.  I glanced at it and saw the word “maternity”.  I read the front and back, and by the time I was done, I was convinced that my mom was going to have another baby.  The paper was about the ultrasound my mom was going to have in October.  I was so excited!  I bounced around the house, and decided to ask dad in the morning, so nobody else would hear.

The next morning when dad woke me up, I told him about the mysterious purple paper.  He grinned, and said yes,mom is going to have another baby.  I had to keep it a secret for six days so we could tell Grandma.  My parents always think up clever ways to tell everyone.   Two Christmases ago when my mom was pregnant with Neil, she made a card that said on the front, “Unto us a son is born, unto us a son is given….”, making it look like a Christmas card.  When you flipped it open, it said “Or maybe a girl but you’ll have to wait till June to find out!”  Dad told me that we would announce it when we went to Whiting Campground for the Brian Memorial Cookout.  We had gone to the Payson Pond a few days earlier to get new birthday pictures.  They would give Grandma the new pictures to put on her wall, but inside would be tucked a picture of the ultrasound.  Grandma would look through them, see the ultrasound and know that a new grandbaby was on the way.  But I couldn’t tell anyone until then. 

It was so hard not to tell Tori, but I managed to keep it a secret.  We went up to Whiting, and I finally got to hand grandma the pictures.  Her face when she ran into the ultrasound was priceless.  Now I finally get to tell everybody!  That happened about two weeks ago, but then I still couldn’t tell a lot of people, because Mom still had to tell her mom.  She sent her a picture of the ultrasound with a post-it note over it that said, “Oops, forgot one!”.  Mom had sent her the birthday pictures a few days earlier.  So now I finally get to post it on my blog!!!!