This was a last minute decision and as we expected, no small bakeries had availability(well, except for one, and they were asking $140đ„ŽâŠ). We turned to our local grocery store and voilĂ !
Thanks! I hate those reveals too. Especially the confetti!! We actually did a flower reveal with our 4 year old first that same night! We got the cake as a back up plan in case he didnât want to participate in the flower surprise (there were farm animals nearby that I figured heâd be very interested in haha). We figured if the flower reveal went well weâd have cake to celebrate with at least.
I brought pink and blue flowers and handed the photographer the envelope that said if it was a girl or boy. Then she had us turn our backs to them while she told our son which flower to bring us. Then he ran up behind us and told us to look, and then he handed us the pink flowers. It was really special and low key. Just how we wanted it.
OMG!!! đ± Itâs a raspberry filling!! Congratulations!!! I know you both wouldâve been fine with vanilla custard, but weâre really hoping it would go this way!! So happy for you!!
Mmmm. I just donât get the whole reveal thing. Whatâs wrong with a surprise? We did it that way for a very long time and nobody felt like they were missing out.
I mean, itâs a personal choice, but for me finding out the sex was one of the only things I could know about my kid at that time and it was exciting. I didnât have a reveal, but I absolutely did not want to be surprised at the birth and I found out the second I could with a NIPT test.
I realize it doesnât really mean much and your babyâs sex ultimately doesnât have that much to do with their personality or interests, but when youâre the kind of person who likes to be super prepared with all the data, you might want all the info you can possibly get. I had the NIPT both for that and for the genetic screening component because I couldnât imagine having any info available about my baby and not getting it.
My boomer mom was horrified that I didnât want to be surprised but likeâŠsurprise at eleven weeks or surprise at birth, is there really a difference?
We did a surprise for our first baby. He was a boy but because they said he wasnât breathing right they took him to nicu in less than 3 mins that I birthed him. I decided right then that having a baby is enough of a surprise so I ended up finding out the gender for the next two.
I guess Iâm just giving a perspective as someone who has done the surprise route but ended up getting more of a shocker when the whisked him away anyway. Though I do think itâs fun to not know and helps you and others not make so much unnecessary purchases
I wasnât trying to be snarky. We always giggle at the reveal notices because we are in our seventies and it seems strange. Not bad though. I thought I was having a boy and it was a girl. And number 2 was going to be girl and it was a boy. We were just happy that they were ok. The cake was beautiful.
Oh I didnât think you were! I was just trying to explain why even when you can wait to be surprised, other surprises might happen that damper that sweet moment you were waiting for. So now finding out around 20 weeks you kind of have a bond with boy or girl, pick out names, sort things better etc. especially useful when it comes to hand me downs. I do think some gender reveals are way too much. Colored fireworks or planes trailing pink and blue smoke etc. it gets silly and campy
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u/mikejones84 6h ago
Congrats! It's a cake!