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Very cool with your idea for the shirts! The girls will love them!
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
My TR from my most recent trip is now underway. Includes: Universal Studios Florida, Disney World and Sea World Orlando Trifecta TR -Updated December 10th! TR is now COMPLETED!
I have a friend with 2 daughters who just announced her third pregnancy yesterday. It was super cute - the younger daughter is sitting at a desk with the book 'All About Being a Big Sister' (or something like that) and then the older girl is standing next to a chalkboard that says 'Big Sister Training, graduating November 2016'. I thought that was pretty creative.
Thanks! When we announced my pregancy with Chelsea, we had gotten Briana a shirt that said "Being Promoted to Big Sister May 2015," so I thought it would be fun to do something similar this time around. I'll share the announcement here after we put it together!
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Love the shirt idea for the girls! It must be so hard to keep the pregnancy secret. I don't know how you do it.
Well...I've told a few of my friends, and our immediate family. So I have people to be excited with. Otherwise, I would have blabbed it all over Facebook already.
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Originally Posted by Kellymel
I am so excited for you! Baby #3! Love the T-Shirt idea, I am sure the girls will make wonderful big and biggest sisters.
Going to WDW too! That is awesome!
I can't wait to read more on the baby news too!
I'm so excited. A lot of good things happening for us this year!
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I live hearing about both of your planning - baby & Disney so share away. The shirts sound so cute. One of my favorite pics is one we would never do as JB is my only - a child holding mom's tummy or kissing mom's tummy. It is so precious & shows the kids that they were involved with the pregnancy if they are too little to remember much.
I have a few great pictures of Briana hugging my belly or kissing it, and one where she looks all surprised and excited because Chelsea kicked right as she lay her face down on my stomach. It's one of my absolute favorites!
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Originally Posted by KMB733
Can't wait to see the girls in their shirts!
Me either! I'm impatiently waiting for them to arrive.
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Originally Posted by MikeL
Idea of shirts sounds fantastic The girls should look so cute in them
I'm pretty excited! I really am just so excited to tell everyone, I can't wait for the shirts to get here.
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Originally Posted by Cam22
The shirts sound adorable! The announcement idea should be so cute, too.
Thank you! I can't wait to announce!
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Originally Posted by SuperDave
Very cool with your idea for the shirts! The girls will love them!
I showed them to Briana and she got a pretty big smile. She loves new clothes.
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Originally Posted by cubfancolleen
I have a friend with 2 daughters who just announced her third pregnancy yesterday. It was super cute - the younger daughter is sitting at a desk with the book 'All About Being a Big Sister' (or something like that) and then the older girl is standing next to a chalkboard that says 'Big Sister Training, graduating November 2016'. I thought that was pretty creative.
That's adorable!
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A big congrats to you all! How very exciting! Will you find out what this little one will be? Best of luck to a happy and healthy pregnancy!
We are definitely going to find out! I'm too impatient not to. I'm halfway hoping for a boy, but I'll be ecstatic whatever we have.
Jess I am starting to see a pattern emerging here. Plan a Disney Trip GET PREGNANT
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Right?! Lol. It's terrible. I mean, it's wonderful! But...I can't get pregnant every time I plan a trip! It's not fair, I can't ride Expedition Everest! Haha, just kidding just kidding. Our limit is four, so if it happens again, that's it! We are done! Haha
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I'm just jumping in, went back to read from the beginning (and not quite caught up yet, but I'll get there! ), and realized when you started this PTR, and how cool that your trip is actually coming up THIS year in a few short months!!!
And SO exciting about the coming arrival!!!!! What a blessing.
I'm just jumping in, went back to read from the beginning (and not quite caught up yet, but I'll get there! ), and realized when you started this PTR, and how cool that your trip is actually coming up THIS year in a few short months!!!
And SO exciting about the coming arrival!!!!! What a blessing.
Glad to be here and looking forward to more!
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Glad you're joining in! Sorry, I somehow missed your post when I came to check up on my thread a couple weeks ago!
Those of you who are my friend on Facebook already know, but just so the rest of you can see my baby announcement, I'm going to share it here.
This is the main one I posted on my Facebook page. My mother-in-law helped us take the pictures, and my friend helped edit them. I really love how the girls' shirts turned out, and the picture where Briana is jumping in excitement makes me smile.
This is my cover image on Facebook right now. I've been trying not to have pictures with my kids faces on my cover photo or profile image because those are public and cannot be hidden like the rest of my albums, so I thought this was a good compromise.
Free dining is being released tomorrow (today, now, since it's after midnight), and I'm hoping we can get the offer added to our reservation. Some of the verbage of the offer makes me wonder if I won't have to cancel and rebook to take advantage of the offer. That wouldn't be too much of an inconvenience...unless we lose our dining reservations. Then I would be very upset. Wish me luck and send me pixies!
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