Baby Lyman at 20 Weeks

We had our 20-week ultrasound on Thursday and everything went great. It made us feel better to know that 1) our baby was, in fact, a boy (I was a bit skeptical after our 16 week appointment) and 2) that he looked healthy and normal. Not deformed. All ten fingers. Enough fluid. Etc. The best part about it was that Riley was literally on the edge of his seat the whole time saying things like, "this is amazing!"  and "that is so cool!" He looked like he was about to cry; it was just the sweetest thing.

Baby Lyman waving to us 

When we first got married, people told Riley to just wait 6 months and Talia will want to have a baby. The funny thing was that right around 6 months after we were married, he's the one who wanted to have a baby. I was definitely not ready, so we waited to try until we'd been married about 2 years. I was still kind of nervous about having a baby (our lives would change so much and I just loved our life the way it was) when we first started trying, but when we had a hard time getting pregnant I felt so bad that I'd made him wait and now we had to wait even longer. When we finally got pregnant, though, instead of being a bit apprehensive like I was at first about having a baby, I was just plain excited. We're not nervous that having a baby will be hard while Riley's in school (he graduates this month!!),  or about not having enough time just the two of us, or about pregnancy being hard, but we're just excited. I think Heavenly Father had the perfect timing for us.

So far I've had the easiest pregnancy of all time. I have never had morning sickness and didn't start really showing until 20 weeks (wore maternity pants for the first time this week. Hey yo! They are sooooo comfortable!). The only symptoms I have are peeing a lot, being tired sometimes, and my back hurts like crazy when I sit for too long. I thought for sure I would have terrible morning sickness like my sister but I felt totally fine. Everyone tells me I'm lucky, but when I never felt sick, we were worried that I might miscarry. I'd heard there's a higher chance of miscarrying if  you're not sick,  but once we made it past the 1st trimester, we felt much better.

I just know that because I've had a great pregnancy (I hope this I doesn't jinx it!) that I'm going to have a hard labor and/or a terrible baby. Haha. It can't all be easy, right? But we are so excited we don't even care.