Every day discovering something brand new

April 2020

Of course Tyler was on the road. Of course I would find out while he was gone. He was only gone for a few days, but still. I wanted to tell him ASAP but I would have to wait. I looked over at the counter at the two plastic sticks and felt my smile grow as I walked over to them and saw the two blue lines on each of them. I was pregnant. Tyler and I were gonna be parents.

He finally came back a few days after finding out that I was in fact pregnant. I had gone to my doctor to make absolutely sure. But I knew. I felt it. The doctor told me I was pregnant and that our baby was perfect...absolutely perfect.

"Rae?" Tyler called the second the front door opened; I was surprised I could hear him over the sound of the three dogs going crazy.

"Kitchen!" I called to him, drying my hands on a dishtowel, as I walked to meet him at the door.

"Hey, baby," he smiled when he saw me, walking to me quickly and pulling me into a hug.

"Hey, Ty," I said hugging him back.

He pulled back from me still grinning, "How are you?" he asked me.

I nodded and let him go, heading back to the kitchen with him following me, "I'm fine....you?" I asked, biting my lip and facing away from him.

"Fine...what's wrong, Rae?" he asked, coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around my shoulders.

I brought my hand up and began twisting my hair around my finger, "Nothing," I said quickly.

He took me by the shoulders and turned me to face him as I felt my face begin to heat up, "I know you a bit better than that," he said seriously, "What is wrong?" he asked.

I sighed, "Nothing is wrong...at least I wouldn't classify anything as being wrong."

He squinted but tightened his grip on me, "Baby, what's going on?"

I bit my lip once more and dug my hand into the front pocket of my jeans and pulled out my pregnancy tests and held them in my hand, looking down at them. After a few seconds Tyler moved his hands from my shoulders, downs my arms until he reached my hands, his left hand gripping the tests and bringing them up to his face.

I didn't meet his eyes. I knew eventually he'd be ecstatic about having a baby. We had talked about it plenty of times in the past. It was just the question of if he would be happy about it right in that moment. The baby was going to be born during the next season and Tyler was still at the peak of his career with no sign of slowing down. I didn't know if he would view the baby as an actual sign of slowing down.

"Rae," he breathed, "look at me, please."

I lifted my head and met his gaze and saw the giant grin that was spread across his face before I looked up and saw his eyes that were filled with tears, and any worry that I had about the timing flew out the window. He was beyond happy.

"I'm gonna be a dad?" he asked as his voice cracked and tears overflowed from his eyes.

I breathed out a laugh and nodded, "You're gonna be a daddy, Tyler."

"This isn't some mean late April Fool's prank is it?" he asked with a small laugh and he wiped his eyes with the back of his hands.

I couldn't help but laugh with him and take his face in my hands, "I swear it's not," I told him, looking into his eyes and seeing the happiness that was there and I felt my own tears spill over and start falling down my face, "we're gonna be parents, Ty. You're gonna be a daddy!"

His arms wrapped around my waist and he hugged me tightly to him and my arms went around his neck, and I could barely hear the sound of the plastic tests hitting the floor over his cries that were mixed with mine too. His face was in my neck hiding amongst my long hair as he cried; my face was pressed into his chest.

We stayed like that for a few minutes before he pulled away from me and smiled at me with his red eyes, he moved his hands up to my face and cupped each side of my face, "Thank-you so much, baby," he told me, "I love you so much."

I laughed, "I love you too, Ty!"

He let out a deep sigh and shook his head, "I can't believe this! Fuck!" he hollered with a small laugh, "We're gonna be parents!"

I moved my hands to his waist and shook him lightly, "We're gonna be parents, baby!"

"When's the due date?" he asked me hurriedly.

I smiled, "December ninth, we can hear the heartbeat next month."

He smiled, "This is crazy! Wow...this is the best...God! I'm so happy right now!"

I bit my lip and tilted my head, "Are you...ya know...mad that the baby is gonna be born during the season?"

He squinted at me, "Are you crazy? Rae...the baby could be born on the night of game seven during the finals...it doesn't matter to me. You and the baby are way more important to me than any of that. You know how much I've wanted a baby, how much we've talked about it, especially since Christmastime. You and the baby are the best things that have ever happened to me. And I'm gonna do everything in my power that I can to be there at every doctor’s appointment, and that I'll try and be there for absolutely everything."

I smiled up at him, "I know you will, Tyler. Me and baby Segs are very lucky to have you."

He scoffed playfully, "Please. Baby Segs is lucky to have you as their Mama, and I'm lucky to have you by my side."

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June 2020

The Dallas Stars had done it again. They won the Stanley Cup. And in true Tyler fashion, when the media went to talk to him after the win, he said the lucky charm of winning was the little baby that was growing inside of me. The media and fans went crazy. We had already told our respective families a few days before once I officially hit my second trimester.

A week and a half after the parade in downtown Dallas we were sitting in the doctor’s office, waiting to find out the gender of our baby.

"And how are we today, Mr and Mrs. Seguin?" Dr. Verner asked when she walked into her office where we were sitting on the other side of her desk holding hands.

I smiled and rested my free hand on my tiny baby bump, "Good and you?"

She smiled and took a seat at her desk, "Good, thank-you! Okay!" she started looking down at her file folder, "So you two are here to find out the gender of baby Segs," she said with a smile as my smile grew larger, "are you two ready?"

I looked over to Tyler and saw the large smile spread across his face, "I'm ready," he said, turning to look at me with pure excitement evident on his face.

I nodded and looked back to the doctor, "Ready!"

She smiled at the two of us before looking back down at the file in her hand, "Well, the baby is growing very nicely! Everything looks good!" she said glancing up at us quickly before back down to the folder, "alright...congratulations Tyler and Raeanne," she said looking at us again, "you're having a boy!"

The tears flowed down from my eyes quickly and I looked to Tyler, seeing him with tears coming down too. I knew in his heart of hearts that he really did want a boy.

He made eye contact with me and leaped out of his seat and got on his knees on the floor in front of me, where he pulled me into him.

He sighed, "Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you," he kept repeating to me.

I breathed out a small laugh, and rubbed his back, "I love you, Ty."

He lifted his head up to look at me and I used my thumbs to wipe away the tears from his face, "I love you too, pretty girl."

Notes

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