[TM] First Time Your Grandparents Freaked Out About You

by - March 11, 2017



Dear Peanut,

Today, we told your Lolo Daddy (LD) and Lola Mommy (LMO) about you. :)

So naturally, they freaked out over the phone. We were supposed to call them last night but LMO was busy the whole day and they usually sleep early (oldies, hehe) so we decided to do it on a weekend.

Actually, when we first found out about you, we immediately thought about how we're going to announce our pregnancy on Facebook. (More on why we decided not to announce online too soon here).

Since we *sort of* enjoyed Suicide Squad and I'm still high on the Harley Quinn-inspired make-up your Auntie Sai did for me, we thought hey, why not create an artsy announcement using the Joker and Harley Quinn?

So SC bought LEGO versions of the two iconic DC characters and here's what we came up with:

Remember, we made you in Malaysia, haha. That's the iconic Petronas Towers, one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. We will bring you there when you're a bit older.

During the video call, we told LD and LMO that we have something to show them. And we showed them this. It took LMO a while to finally read the small text---about 30 seconds. It also took them about an entire minute to calm down from all the screaming and jumping around.

Then they simultaneously looked at the screen and we showed them your first selfie photo at 4 weeks before they fired strings of congratulations and "parental tips" at us.

LMO said she *sort of* felt that we did have big news to share the night before. I guess it's the invisible tie that forever bonds mother and child.

We also shared the news with your Auntie A and Unlce P through our family Facebook chat room and sent them these announcement images. They all said congratulations and with your Uncle P being a medicine student, he has a lot of questions and suggestions about how to take care of myself during the pregnancy. Lots of do's and don't's.


We had to wait a few days before we told your Lola Mama (LMA) about our pregnancy because she's rarely online on Facebook. But we did the same and showed her the same via video chat. Same with LMO, it took her a while to read the small text saying "WE ARE PREGNANT" that we had to spell it out, hahaha.

But just the same, she screamed for about a minute before calming down. Your LMA is a nurse by profession so she also had a lot of tips and do's and don't's for me. LMA shared the news with your Uncle Tin while I chatted up your Auntie AnneDE via Facebook and sent her the photos above. 

Soon, we would tell our closest friends one by one about our pregnancy. But for now, it's just immediate family.

xoxo,
Update (as of March 29, 2018): Changed my codename from Queen Bitch (QB) to Tiger Mom (TM).

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