Early morning light filtered through the trailer on the day of Amy's first ultrasound appointment. There was a smile pulling at Ty's lips before he even became fully aware that he was awake and bothered to open his eyes. He could feel Amy's body close against his on the small bed crammed against the back wall of the trailer. It was quiet and peaceful, the only sounds coming through the walls were of the birds outside and… pages turning?

Ty awoke further to shift his body, stretching out his legs and rolling over onto his back to open one eye and look at his wife turned away from him, propped up on her arm and looking down at what he assumed was some sort of book. He reached out to rub the back of his fingers against her shoulder, causing her to glance back at him with a soft smile. "Good morning."

Ty pushed himself up so he could see over her shoulder what she was reading, kissing the warm skin of her arm on his way up. "You're up early. Whatcha reading?"

Amy turned the page of the "What to Expect" book she'd gotten in town a few days ago. "Just this baby book I got. I just wanted to be prepared for this appointment today."

Ty rested his chin against her shoulder to look down and let his eyes skim over the page she was turned to. He looked at the cartoon drawing of a developing fetus inside of the womb that very much resembled some sort of sea creature. "There's no need to be nervous. It's going to be fine." Ty slipped his arm around her waist, dipping his hand beneath her shirt to run over the warm skin of her belly the held the baby they were going to get a glimpse of in a few hours time.

"I'm not nervous. I just want to be informed is all. This is all new to me, I just want to know as much as I can."

"So what have you learned?"

"Well, I learned that the baby probably has a good heartbeat by now. And its little tail is disappearing." Amy grinned, glancing over her shoulder at Ty's reaction.

"Tail? No way. Are we having some kind of alien baby?" He reached down to pull the book away from Amy to read this bit of information himself about their child having a tail.

Amy kept her grip on the book to keep Ty from taking it from her, laughing. "No. It's just part of its development. It grows into the tailbone, which I guess makes sense, but you missed the most important part. It might have a heartbeat already."

"Well, you kind of buried that bit of information with the whole thing about our kid having a tail." Ty got a little bit worried for a second there, even though he knew Amy wasn't one to easily be able to joke about things like that without having them based in some sort of fact. She just wasn't quite witty in that sense. But hearing the baby could have a heartbeat made Ty grin. "So a heartbeat. One that we can hear?" He moved then to slide back and pull Amy down onto her back as he ducked his head down to rest his ear against her abdomen.

Amy laughed and shifted, moving the book out of the way to give Ty room to place his head on her. "I don't think you'll be able to hear it that way." Still, Amy couldn't help the tender smile that appeared as she looked town at the back of her husband's head resting on her belly. She reached down to stroke her fingers through his hair. "I hope we can hear it though. How incredible would that be."

Amy was right, he couldn't hear anything except the workings of her digestive tract and feel the pulse of her aorta against his face. It didn't matter, though, he knew their baby rest somewhere just on the other side of his head and that was enough for him to pick up her shirt and plant his lips against her bare skin. "That would be pretty amazing. I'll be happy enough just to get to see it today."

Ty lifted his head then, turning to look up at his beautiful wife, finally seeing that glow return to her features over the last week as things had started to settle down within the family in regard to this baby. Or, mostly just Tim. He seemed to realize any negativity he felt the need to relay would be met with contempt and deliberate avoidance. Amy really didn't need to deal with that stress again and Ty was going to make sure she didn't have to.

"How did you sleep? You didn't wake me up a dozen times last night." Lately, Amy had been having issues with her morning sickness carrying over into the night, as well as the rest of the day. It worried Ty that she could be so sick all of the time, but he knew that was one of the many woes of pregnancy. He just wished there was some way he could help her combat it, though knew there wasn't much he could do other than get out of the way fast enough when Amy needed to make a mad run out the door or to the nearest convenient place to get sick and hold her hair back if she let him get that close to her. He made sure they were well stocked on saltines and ginger ale, too, which seemed to be Amy's go-to bedtime and morning snack before she threw herself into the day.

"Pretty well, for once. I thought I'd be laying awake all night from my nerves, but it was actually a pretty restful night. Despite your snoring." Amy grinned. Ty's snoring was nothing at all compared to Caleb's, which could easily be heard through the walls of the trailer when he used to sleep out on the couch.

"What? You're such a liar." Ty laughed, his hands coming down to grip Amy's sides as he tickled her weakest spot. Amy's whole body tensed and convulsed from the attack to her ribs as she laughed and squirmed in his gasp. "I don't snore."

"Ty. Stop," she laughed her body curling and squirming to get away from his hands. The tightening of her diaphragm from her hard laughter was rough on her stomach, though, and Amy could feel herself getting queasy as she tried to take in the air that had been torn from her lungs from her laughter. "Stop," she told him again, serious this time even though she was still laughing and trying to pry his hands away.

"Ty. I'm going to be sick." That got his attention and almost immediately did he stop and tear his hands away from her sides, the wide grin falling from his face as Amy sat up and closed her eyes, inhaling slow and deep breaths.

"You okay? You want some ginger ale?" Ty untangled himself from the bed sheets and stepped over Amy to get out of bed and open the little fridge, grabbing a bottle of Canada Dry.

Amy shook her head. "No. No, I think it's going away." One of her least favorite things was throwing up. She always hated having the flu, or being ill at all, and now this was like the flu from hell that just wouldn't go away and that no antibiotics could help.

"You should drink something anyway. And eat. You need food in your system. How about we go to Maggie's for breakfast?" Ty set the ginger ale on the counter to screw off the cap and hand the small bottle to Amy, watching her take small sips despite her initial protest. She was nodding though as she drank, lowering the bottle from her lips.

"Maggie's sounds good. I'm actually kind of hungry for some blueberry pancakes if I can keep them down," she smiled, handing Ty the bottle to be returned to the fridge.

"Then blueberry pancakes it is. Maybe we can head up to Calgary a little early then, too? Do a little shopping?"

Amy was careful as she got herself out of bed, not wanting to disrupt her stomach from the sudden vertical movement. "Shopping? I never thought I'd ever hear that word come out of your mouth. What are we shopping for?"

Ty shrugged, a small crooked smile pulling at the corner of his mouth as he moved aside for Amy to find some clothes to change into. "I don't know. Maybe some baby stuff. Might as well start looking now, right?"

Amy stopped digging for clothes to look up at Ty with a gentle smile, excitement blossoming in her chest on top of what was already there at the idea of browsing for baby stuff. "Okay. That sounds nice." She tossed the shirt she had in her hand at Ty. "Now let's hurry up and get dressed. Baby is hungry," she laughed.