Yet, it feels like yesterday that I surprised C that we were expecting our new addition, little Skywalker. Yes, I had the whole thing planned out and wanted to make the announcement special for him. I just blurted it out with Marshmallow and wanted to do something fun this time around. Pretty much from the time we decided we were ready to grow our family again, I had this idea figured out in my head. So how did it go down?
After confirming all was in place for the surprise, I told C that Sam and I were taking him out for a surprise on Sunday night. So for two days, he kept asking what we were doing. I told him he will see. He thought I was taking him to dinner, so was surprised when I asked him if he wanted to eat before or after my plans. He said before and suggested sushi. So I located an awesome hole in the wall sushi place near my surprise location and we enjoyed a meal with Marshmallow. Marshmallow shocked us both when he quickly picked up how to use chopsticks! What a neat addition to our evening out.
After dinner we headed to my surprise meeting spot. He again was really confused because we parked to meet someone else. I tell C to follow her. Once we get out of the car, I open the trunk for him. Something I told him not to open as it contained part of the surprise. When he saw what was in the trunk he was only more confused. She opens hers. In our trunk, I have our police pedal car, the little uniform I made Mashmallow out of an old uniform, and C's uniform hat. Her trunk had a fire truck pedal car. C was so confused. At this point I take C aside. I tell him we are taking a few pictures of Marshmallow. I hand him a plastic bag with the positive pregnancy tests. Thankfully, the digital still showed "pregnant". While he was figuring out what I just handed him, I pull out the signs I made. I tell him, we are here to do a photo shoot with Marshmallow to announce that we are expecting!
His first reaction was "did you get an appointment yet?" Which is the same exact reaction as he had with Marshmallow. To which I told him I had already got one set up. Then I think he was just shocked. Well, shocked and excited. The photographer and I got my idea all set up and did the pictures, while C was just in disbelief!
I had this planned for a while. Back when I first thought of the idea, I asked in a couple facebook groups if anyone had a fire truck pedal car for sale or that I could eventually borrow. The person that replied turned out to be a photographer who used the pedal car as prop. Just my luck! When I told her what I was planning and not really sure when we would need it, just that I wanted to be ready. She immediately offered to do the pictures as as mini-mini session for me for a very reasonable rate. She loved my idea and did not want to miss out on shooting it. So, I ended up messaging her the day I got the positive test result and we got the shoot planned out and set up for 2 days later! So we got it all pulled together very quickly and I got the signs created quickly without C seeing what I was doing.
I wanted to play on that we are first responder family, C is an officer and I was a firefighter. Obviously, the stereotype of cops and donuts had to be included and helped to get Marshmallow to cooperate during the shoot. The signs play on the comment C always says to me, that fire does nothing but stage. That it takes them forever to actually get on-scene, hence the 9 months of staging. The photographer made my vision come to life and so grateful for this beautiful memory captured in a photograph. I absolutely love the end result!
So here we are now nearly 28 weeks from when this picture was taken and only 12 weeks left to go! And I can not wait. I am very excited for our family to grow!
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