The time between receiving our referral call and announcing our referral has only been a few days but it's been so hard to keep it to ourselves. So. Hard. I wanted to shout it out from the parking lot of Trader Joe's where I received the call but I had to keep it under wraps. Time to process it all. Time to make an objective decision.
It has been especially hard to keep it from the kids. Hello! This is their sister we're talking about. A need-to-know event in their lives. So, tonight, since we clearly knew little sister would be in our family, we decided to take the kids to a Thai restaurant and make the announcement.
Picky eater #1 and picky eater #2 are not fans of Thai food so the concession was made to go eat dessert at the Thai restaurant. We sat down and........ok, hold that thought.........background information necessary: As we have been praying for the little girl that we did not yet know, #2 decided that she needed a nickname. We suggested lots of different nicknames and the name that stuck was "Sweet Pea". Our #2 has been calling little girl "Sweet Pea" for a good couple of months now..........back to the story......we sat down at the table, ordered the monster Thai dessert platter and announced, "Boys, we finally know who Sweet Pea is!"
#2 immediately said, "Is our ice cream really going to be orange?". #1 said nothing. Anti-climatic.
We gave the boys more information about little girl. We finally started to get some positive feedback. Some good questions.
#2 then starts to complain that he doesn't want his second helping of mango ice cream to be in the same bowl as his first helping. Something about light yellow mixing with orange. #1 announces in his ever-so-subtle way, "my glass of WATER was the highlight of THIS dessert". And then, "I'd rather eat cottage cheese than eat in another Thai restaurant." Oh boys.
Husband and I drove home smiling.
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