See How These Parents Announced Their Baby’s Gender

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Monique Tello and Steven Statter decided on a baseball theme to announce their baby’s gender.

Tello reportedly said, “Since pregnancy is typically more focused on the women, I wanted to do something to make Steven feel more included.” Neither Tello nor Statter knew if they were having a boy or a girl as only Tello’s sister Marissa knew the ultrasound results. This certainly added to the excitement.

Statter’s sister Leanne had sent Tello a screen shot of an exploding baseball, and that gave her an idea, she said. Tello and her sister Marissa then took to Pinterest and Google for further inspiration and cleverly came up with the idea to take a fragile, clear plastic Christmas ball ornament and fill it with chalk powder that they found online. Marissa chose the right colour and then sealed the ball, sprayed it with primer, and painted it white with red seams to look like a baseball.

The couple’s gimmick would be to break the news to everyone, including themselves, reportedly, when Steven connected with the ball and the pink or blue chalk was released. To complete the stunt, Tello obtained a permit to use a local baseball field, hired a famous photographer, and invited friends and family to come to the field.

He asked his guests to dress in either pink or blue, depending on which gender they suspected the baby would be. Pinks went to one dugout, blues to the other.

Once everyone was assembled, Tello took to the pitcher’s mound and tossed the powder-filled baseball ornament over home plate.
“We only had one shot to make this work,” photographer David Swayze wrote on Facebook. He was on edge, hoping Statter would connect and he would get the perfect shot. If Statter missed and the ball fell to the ground and broke, it would be considerably less dramatic.

But Statter, who plays in a men’s league every Sunday in Orange County, was no rookie at the plate; he connected, and the photographer got his epic shot.

Monique Tello who was diagnosed early last year with a grade 2 astrocytoma, a form of brain cancer, said the publicity stunt was a big deal to her and her family; she also got her desire,

“I really wanted a girl, as you can tell by (my reaction in) the pictures. I have just been on cloud nine since we found out. It is all super exciting.”