Telling the folks

So now that we have a couple of decent ultrasound images, I have figured out how I'm telling my parents. I'm giving each of them a card, one for my mom for mother's day, and one for my dad as "early birthday." The card is going to say that we wanted to give them a keepsake of their grandkid, and then we're attaching a gift for them to open.

("We" is going to imply Helen and Kieran, notsomuch Helen and Dean, until they open the gift.)

And then they'll find this photoalbum:


...with prints of Bunky's ultrasounds inside.

A funny from over the weekend

We noticed that while my in-laws effused with well wishes they did not explicitly congratulate us, which made me happy beyond measure.

So I commented on it, to which my FIL said, "Well, I used to congratulate parents-to-be until this one time that I said it to an expectant father who had just found out he had one on the way. And he looked at me, shrugged, and said, 'We were drunk.'"

It made him realize, he said, how absurd congratulations could be in a significant number of "announcements," and he hadn't done so since.

I got a good laugh out of this. My father-in-law, he is wise!