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Mad-lib birth announcement game & vlog. Join the fun!

Posted on May 08 in 2008 pregnancy, Blogging, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

Back in the day Teeni was doing these fun story games where each participant would write a few sentences for a story, then when everyone had their chance to contribute she would post the whole story on her blog for us all to enjoy. I participated several times and it really was a hoot.

Then back in March I saw another really fun blog post idea written by Meagan Francis that I just knew I would copy, a mad-lib birth announcement.

I thought It would be fun to combine the two really great ideas and do a birth announcement here on the blog, mad-lib style but for added fun and reader involvement I want to let you come up with the mad-lib in the same way Teeni did her story game.

Now if this doesn’t seem like fun to you then you’ve got to go and lick click those links I posted above. Both ideas are genius and combining them is just going to be that much better!

So, to participate just leave a comment below saying you want to be included. Be sure to use a valid email address okay? I’ll be replying to you with the specifics soon!

So just to recap: You get to write the mad-lib sentences, N and I will fill in all Tater’s birth details and the we will post the end result here on the blog. It will also end up being a super cute (and unique) thing for me to print out and put in Tater’s baby book as a keepsake. Yay!

Also, here is my 33rd week and 1 day belly vlog:

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In 12 days I am outta here to wait for Tater’s birth… N and I enjoyed our second-to-last-weekend before the baby madness...
We’re moved in… Vlog and chat As promised I did a vlog and chat at 8pm...
Today I am 35 weeks pregnant, another belly shot shared. I am eating some nut & chocolate trail mix. Just...
… and the waiting game begins. 7:08:21 PM: N just headed back home and I am...
Everly is now 5 days old: A look back on the birth experience. The last week has been a whirlwind! Everly Charlotte...

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7 Comments

Krystal McCarthy says:

May 8, 2009 at 12:09 pm

You know I wanna be in on this!
melissa says:

May 8, 2009 at 12:26 pm

this sounds like fun, count me in
maiden53 says:

May 8, 2009 at 1:02 pm

T~ This does sound fun… for the witty ones I am not to be counted in for cute witty birth announcement sayings. But I am looking forward to seeing the end result

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Megan says:

May 8, 2009 at 2:22 pm

I want to play too!

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Karen says:

May 8, 2009 at 9:32 pm

I am not going to sign up because I don’t know how busy and braindead I am going to be, but dang, woman, that baby girl is jumping!

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Paula says:

May 9, 2009 at 8:49 am

Hey Talina! Great idea. Love looking at your belly! How about a face pic since I haven’t seen you in years?! Take care of yourself and that sweet baby.

Love, Paula
teeni says:

May 9, 2009 at 9:04 am

Oh my goodness! How exciting to see the baby moving around like that! Sorry about the scratches but you look so good aside from that! Thanks so much for the linky love and for giving me a heads up about this post. I am glad you liked the story idea (I feel bad that the story got dropped the last time I tried getting it around again but maybe I’ll try again soon). Anyway, OF COURSE I want to be included in a Mad Lib for little Tater! You betcha! The email on this message is a good one to use to contact me. I’m excited – it sounds like fun! Hugs to you!

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