How We Told the Locals

We didn't wait too long to share our news this time. Mostly, it was because we wanted to let Grandma Audrey know before she became too ill.

We waited to tell Vivian until the morning that we were headed to Bloomington to visit Audrey and Rick, Karen and Catie (visiting from California). She seemed pretty excited, although I'm not sure she quite understands yet.

I made Vivian a shirt to wear. On the front, it says, "Guess What? I have a secret..." and on the back, it says, "I'm going to be a BIG SISTER!" We told her she could take her hoodie off whenever she wanted to in order to share the news.

Because the hospice nurse was at Audrey's meeting with the siblings and her, we went to Jane and Jon's in Bloomington first. Cousin Daniel was there as well as Great Grandpa Sig. SO---Viv showed Daniel, Jon and Sig her shirt first!

Then, we headed to Audrey's where Viv shared the news with Kay and Jane, then Audrey, and then everyone else! It was really fun to share some GOOD news at a time when we are all struggling with news of the terminal cancer in Audrey that is spreading so fast.
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On Tuesday (because they were out of town), we went over to the Weigands to share the news with Adam's sister and her family. Vivian wanted to wear her shirt again and quickly shared the news with her cousins. We had to tell Julie by phone because we had to leave before she got home, but Vivian still did the talking!