Letter/poem Help--2 Yrd Old Writing Letter Announcing Baby on the Way

I think it's a little long too. And I guess I'm a little confused, I don't understand what you mean by changing of the prayer. I've never heard that term and you used it twice.

I think I would either go with the whole secret thing and skip the math part or just do the math part, which I thought was kind of cute. Although you can omit the stuff in parentheses, it's redundant.

I think it would also be cute to just have a card and on the outside put 3 + 1 = 4 then on the inside have a picture of each of you (maybe separately) with plus signs in between and the last picture be a cartoon baby, a question mark, or maybe even a sonogram picture. Keep it simple. They are going to figure it out pretty darn quick and they won't want to read through a bunch of stuff! ;)

I just whipped up this poem in about 2 minutes, so it's not perfect, but I tried to incorporate some of the cute things you had there, maybe you could make it work for you.

I have a secret I'm supposed to keep,
so don't say a peep!

My dad tried teaching me more math
but I'm not so sure I followed his path...

He said 3+1=4
but that's one more
than we have right now...so wait, Holy Cow,

I'm going to get a sister, or maybe a brother
because Mom and Dad are having another!

When my oldest was an only, I took a picture of him each Christmas in front of the stockings (that had our names on them) and made it into a Christmas card.

The Christmas before baby brother was born, I bought a green stocking that simply said "Baby" on it. My son stood in front of the same three stockings and held the new one.

I sent out that card for Christmas, and for many of our family and friends, that was the announcement. Several people told me they thought it was cute.

Exactly what SweetChaosWith3 said. It should be a simple poem without repeating anything so they don't have to keep reading and reading. I just had my 3 yr old daughter hand her grandparents a pair of baby booties that she was hiding behind her back. They now have them on display.
I originally wanted her to wear a shirt that said 'big sister' to announce it to them but couldn't fine one anywhere. Anyhow sometimes short and simple is best.

It's pretty cute the way it is, but a little too long. I would omit the "After that Mommy and Daddy tried teaching me addition" and the "So you see it started there with the changing of the prayer" You had already mentioned that earlier, and to say it again is redundant. I also think you can leave out "Now you see our prayers have changed to add a little baby". They will be able to figure it out when you say "it's hard to keep the secret any more. I'm busting AT the seams".

Enjoy surprising your parents!

Sounds cute the way it is.

Good luck on your new addition.

F. B.