Withholding Information

Usually when someone announces she's pregnant, you can count 7 months or so down the calendar and determine when the baby is due. Nowadays it seems that a couple can receive a positive affirmation and announce even earlier than that.

Rebecca and Dallas kept all pregnancy #3 knowledge to themselves until right before Halloween. She decided to announce it to our family through an email with the following picture of her Halloween costume:

We did the countdown and came up with May or possibly even June--because girls these days seem to enjoy immediately sharing their news early. Imagine our shocked surprise when this daughter of ours told us the due date is March 21st, which made her almost halfway through her pregnancy at that point.

She was already scheduled for her ultrasound that would determine the gender of the baby.

The ultrasound happened last Tuesday--a whole week ago--but it seems that withholding information from parents for a long time is the theme of this pregnancy. Rebecca has been happily telling everyone, including her siblings, what she's having, but purposely kept us in suspense for these whole 7 extra days.

Dallas and Rebecca wanted to keep up the tradition of having a reveal dinner with their parents like they did with Brooke and again with Caroline and now with this baby. So, we fixed the food, Bob and Kathryn brought the most delicious fruit tart for dessert and then Dallas and Rebecca made their announcement.

They tried to throw us off by wearing pink shirts, but I wore the color of shirt that I was guessing and it just so happens that I guessed right. They're having a BOY!! How great is that!?!?!??

The other day when Rebecca was here, she saw the huge, ridiculously long countdown chain Glen had made to mark the return of Ben from his mission and she found her baby's due date (which happened to be about smack dab in the middle of the fireplace) and asked why we hadn't marked in big letters the significance of that day.

With that in mind, we decided to make up a new link for that particular date and printed the date on both pink and blue papers that we had all ready when the Goldens made their announcement. We then let them take out the white link and they stapled in the blue link to mark the date of their new baby's arrival.

Congratulations Dallas and Rebecca!! It's about time you get around to being able to use the boy name you've had picked out way back when you were sure Brooke was going to be a boy.