Over Thanksgiving break we announced to my family that Averi is going to soon be a BIG SISTER. She has slowly been understanding more and more what that means. We also told her from the very beginning that mommy has a baby in her tummy and on more than one occasion she has almost spilled the beans to grandpa on FaceTime.
We had planned that when we got to my parents house we would have Averi in a "BIG SISTER" shirt and would see how long it would take for grandma and grandpa to see it.
Grandpa didn't really notice and it took grandma about five minutes.
The next day we told little Johnny and Elizabeth the news. We had Johnny take our announcement photos and he did an amazing job!
We also told everybody that we were going to find out the gender Thanksgiving morning. We had the gender in an envelope that we entrusted with little Johnny and Elizabeth. We gave them two powder cannons in pink and two powder cannons in blue that we got from Walmart. They needed to wrap the cannons so we couldn't see the color and then we were going to shoot them off later in the week.
Thanksgiving morning we had close friends and family come over for the reveal. We had them tie either pink or blue ribbon around their wrists for their vote of either a boy or a girl. The people who voted for girl was Joe, Johnny and Grandpa. Mommy, Daddy and Averi all voted girl as well. The people who voted for boy was Derek, Lizy, Jake, Pat, Grandma and Elizabeth.
We set up our cameras and shot off the powder cannons.
Baby Flint #2 is going to be a . . .
GIRL!
Averi wasn't too sure what was going on with all the pink smoke. But she always said mommy had a baby girl in her tummy. So she was happy that it was still a girl.
The Flints ~ XOXO
