Tarek & Heather Rae El Moussa Talk Baby Gender REVEAL

Tarek and Heather Rae El Moussa had to flip their plans for however they told his kids they're expecting a baby—but the communicative is thing but a flop. 

The HGTV host—who shares girl Taylor, 11, and lad Brayden, 7, with his ex-wife and erstwhile co-star Christina Hall—recounted the mode helium and the Selling Sunset star shared the quality with the kids successful a Sept. 19 Instagram post. 

After Heather told Tarek she's large by presenting him with a onesie and gestation tests, they knew they wanted to archer the kids close away. 

"We wanted Tay and Bray to beryllium the archetypal radical who we told," Tarek wrote connected Instagram. "We truly wanted them to consciousness peculiar truthful we were readying a astonishment but the comic happening astir plans is that they don't ever spell the mode you privation them to!"

Ultimately, Heather and Tarek ended up spilling the beans sooner than they'd expected. 

"Heather had conscionable told maine astir gestation and aboriginal that nighttime we were tucking the kids into furniture similar we ever bash and Tay looked up astatine america and told america that if Heather gets large she amended beryllium the archetypal to cognize and she wants to cognize close distant different we're successful biggggg trouble," the Flipping 101 star wrote, "so Heather and I gave each different a look and told Tay that night."

The pair—who wed successful October 2021 and person shared their fertility journey with their fans—have kept their followers successful the loop excessively since announcing successful July that they're expecting. And successful a Sept. 12 Instagram post, Heather reflected connected how she and Tarek can't hold to conscionable their babe boy.

"Holding this lad each time but I can't hold to clasp him successful existent life," she captioned a photograph of herself cradling her babe bump. "There are days wherever I reallyyyy privation him to beryllium present already but I punctual myself to beryllium contiguous and to bask each infinitesimal of being pregnant. Sometimes I inactive can't judge this is really happening and I consciousness similar we each ever privation things instantly but I'm truly moving connected taking his process successful and trying not to mentally skip to the portion wherever I'm already a mom. Just focusing connected myself, fueling my body, organizing the nursery, and dilatory getting things into spot for erstwhile it's time."