Oh baby...

Happy birthday Hendrix Reed Bush! We are so happy to have you!

camden's birthday shots...

yay for baby bush!

home....

our little guy is home sweet home.....

greetings from the nicu...

camden is still doing better every day...they switched him to take home oxygen today...one step closer now! and they let us know that tomorrow will probably be the day we get to wrap the little guy up and take him home!! yay!

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here is a little more detail on our little man's health....an ultrasound on his heart showed that he has three issues....a small hole (that is normal before birth) is suppose to close at the time you breathe in your first breath of oxygen, it didn't close with camden...this is not necessarily abnormal for any newborn...and the dr's are hoping that after a little while this little hole will close on its own. he also has a leaky valve, which again may correct itself over time being that all of his blood is flowing correctly through the heart still. camden also has another hole, which is common in babies with down syndrome, and not uncommon with people in general....this hole won't close on its own and depending on how it effects his quality of living may need open heart surgery to correct....the dr's are trying to hold off on surgery until he is at least 6 months old so that his little body can be stronger and he will be able to react better to the surgeries.

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we are just so excited to be able to get our little guy home and start life....keep your fingers crossed that he holds up from here on out so that we can start cuddling with our camden! thanks again for all of your love and support...

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the bush family

update....

the little man is doing well....improving every day....we won't be able to take the little guy home though until at least monday now....:(....but that's ok because we want him to be as healthy as possible!!! we did get some good news today though...they are taking out his feeding tube because he is doing so well with nursing/bottle feeding! yay! he will probably be off his iv tonight too if he keeps those blood sugar levels up!

he has another test on his heart sometime monday and he will probably be coming home on oxygen for a bit...but home none the less!!!

keep it up camden!! we want to bring you home!

camden's resort experience....

please pray for our camden....

we are so excited and feel so blessed to have camden in our lives now....he was born january 24, 2010, weighed 6 lbs 5 oz and was 19 inches long...one week early because he is just such a good boy and listened to mom....

billy and i are so humbled and happy to call him ours...

on monday morning our little guy caught us a little off guard....we were told that our precious little man has down syndrome....billy and i were obviously a little in shock but couldn't have felt more at peace....we know that our heavenly father has a plan for our little family and are so excited to begin the journey. the three of us...because of his diagnosis camden has been dealing with some other issues....although so healthy in most ways he is struggling with his little heart while his special spirit is trying to adjust to this new body of his....so the three of us have been in the nicu (newborn intensive care unit) for a couple of days and will probably be there until at least friday....

although we feel so blessed by little camden we are asking for your prayers to help us get through this newest trial of ours and to help camden's little heart adjust so that we can bring our little guy home to introduce him to the world....thanks so much for all of your love and support! we appreciate it very very much.

tonya, billy and little camden....

hoping....

that this is it! just waiting for these contractions to get a little closer together and then hopefully the next post will be from the hospital! so fun! come on baby bush!!! (don't be fooled...the contractions really hurt...i am just in between and trying to stay preoccupied! haha)

38 weeks and counting down....

so i realize i have been a horrible blogger lately....probably because i blog on my off time at work usually and well i've been training someone for the last month or so, so jumping on to update has been a little difficult...but i do have some updates for you....

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update 1: (counting backwards)
we are 38 weeks today! yay! and he just keeps getting bigger...the pregnancy book says my growth should slow down in the next few weeks....i am thinking not...poor little guy has no room in there at all....that belly is all baby.... :) and although hard to tell in pictures the little guy has dropped...i can feel it...and during contractions the shape of his little booty is about 3 inches below where it has been :) and my ribs feel oh so much better....so that's exciting....the last week or so contractions have become more frequent (thursday they were 15 minutes or so apart for a couple hours, friday it got to 10 minutes and saturday after our 8 hour birthing class they got to about 5-7 minutes for 1.5 hours ) and they were a little more painful than usual! so all in all exciting stuff....we are just waiting for the real thing now!update 2: baby bush had his second baby shower...thrown by grandma bush's sister chris! thank you so much for all of your hard work! the baby wanted me to tell everyone that he sure loves all of his fun new stuff....and dad and i are beginning to worry that this little guy may be on the spoiled side....but that's ok 'cause we are all about spoiling him :) he even got his very own accordian to play along with grandpa bush! oh yes...here are a few pics....

update 3: grandma and grandpa bush and aunt lindsey,uncle jordan and uncle chase came down a few weeks ago too and we ate at cafe madrid...kind of a last time thing before baby comes being that it's a nicer restaurant...the restaurant was very good...and billy and his papa were in heaven eating authentic paella and tortilla just like on their missions in spain...the other food was amazing as well too! and we all had a great time! thanks bush familia!

yum yum! paella...

stay tuned in blogger buds because at my rate...the next time i jump on this thing it might just be to post pictures of our newest little family member! so fun!

plug....

for bb....

he has a new photography blog...check out his latest stuff at....

http://www.artbybilly.com/

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on a side note...on etsy i just made the cutest new purchases for the arrival of our little one...

oh i am soooo excited!

timi&leslie...

so i bought the diaper bag today....my mother in law showed me the cutest convertible diaper bags....the designer is timi&leslie...i love them...

the inside is the cutest too but it won't let me capture that image so check it out.... the bag comes with a bottle tote, a changing pad, and a dirty clothes bag and the inside is vinyl for easy cleaning...i can't wait til wednesday when my new baggy comes in!!! they have lots of other designs too so if you don't like this one you can check them all out by just googling timi&leslie...

getting closer....

while in cali....billy and i had a little fun with the warm weather, the sunsets on the beach and my pregnant self....so fun!!

when we came home from our 70 degree home away from home it was of course snowing....and so we have been confined to light christmas shopping and finishing up the baby's room!!!! horray! here is a sneak peak...

thanks bekah for getting me to post more! :)

making up for lost blogging...

i know...i've been horrible at keeping up with things...so a warning to my readers...it's going to be a long one....

well lets go back to the bush family halloween....oh yes....that far.

The bush padres and jordan, lindsey and chaser too came down for a fun halloween weekend with us in October....they took us all to thriller and frightmares....it was loads of fun and we couldn't have been more excited for the events!

images via yahoo image search

apparently when you are 6-7 months pregnant everyone thinks it would be fun to get a family photo in...so here is the first of the families...the bush's, i tried to hide myself behind the children in each photo :)

zooming ahead a little bit to our week in cali over thanksgiving! since it will probably be our last trip out before the baby arrives my parents got together and threw me a fun baby shower! It was great...i got to see all of my family from my dad and mother's side as well as some friends from high school and college....

thanks again to all who made it out...billy and i loved seeing everyone and can't wait to share the little one with you soon!

the night before the shower...billy and i got together with my two besties to see NEW MOON...yes i said billy went too...and shhh...he secretly love it....haha.....although still a little cheasy i was much happier with this one than it's prequal....

the lovely lynzi...in halloween garb...

and whitney...beaching it up...

i love those girls....

thanksgiving weekend we went to the beach house with my daddy's side and spent our november day in 75 degrees watching the boys surf and prepping yummy food....could you ask for anything better? by far one of my favorite holiday traditions....whit and al came up to join us too and we loved having them!

family photo #2....

billy and i always love our time in cali and it's always so good to see everyone!!! love you all!

bump update....

today we had our first appointment in our third trimester...wow. so we are two thirds there which is absolutely amazing to me...and a little sad because i know this trimester will be the quickest with the holidays blazing up on us....i am sure that won't keep me from complaining every day in january though haha....

the baby is measuring a little ahead of the due date again so we will see where he lands!! everything is looking good and billy and i are sooo excited!

the boy doesn't like those ultrasounds too much anymore :) he either looks straight on or only gives us the back of his head so getting that cute profile shot is pretty much out of the question anymore....oh and the doc says the baby is head down and there is a good chance he will stay that way...please stay that way baby bush!!! :)

head on shot....his eyeball is a little freaky ya!?

belly shot at 28 weeks!

my little accessory....

so i was thinking the other day....that mother nature plays a dirty little trick on its moms out there....or maybe it was just me....or maybe i played the trick on myself....anyway....

when billy and i were contemplating beginning the process of becoming a family larger than two....i would see little babies and want one....not one to feed...or to change or wake up with in the night....no i just wanted one....like you want an ipod....or a new purse....i wanted a little accessory that would laugh and smile and i could dress up in the cutest little outfits and take for a walk in a cute little stroller....ya materialistic...i know....but that's how i saw it....and i honestly thought nothing of it....

then after a little while we started to say to ourselves "are we ready for that?" ...for those sleepless nights and crying little sounds, for the sudden lack of freedom that will occur....and we would say, "we can do it!"... it will be hard but we can do it....

so you might be confused at this point in time because i just went from talking about my soon to be newborn as an accessory and then to admitting that i thought about the hard parts right!? ya, here is mother nature's little trick....she prepares you slowly at first....i wanted an accessory....then i wanted a baby....i didn't look past the accessory part until we were trying....then i wanted a baby....and now here i am almost 6 months along and it has just barely dawned on me that what we asked for was not an accessory....not just a baby....but a lifetime....our lifetimes....and here we are with this little one on the way and i am just barely realizing that i have to raise this little accessory of mine!!! not just in its baby stages but all the way through....i'll have to discipline and fight with and set ground rules and worry about this little thing i thought i could just snuggle and hold for all eternity....on the first day i realized this i had a slight panic attack....i went to billy and i told him...."i thought i ordered an accessory!!!" and he just proceeded to laugh....

now i have come to the conclusion that yes...i will have to raise my accessory....yes, i will have to argue and discipline and cry with my accessory....but i am going to take this one day at a time....and enjoy my little accessory as much as i possibly can....because well, it's going to have to last me a lifetime and beyond....

and so maybe i am the only one in the whole world who felt this way....and maybe this sounds absolutely horrible to some of you....but that is how mother nature played her little trick on me....only now i have realized it wasn't really a trick....it's really a blessing that i wouldn't have had the courage to ask for if i had seen it any other way....

we may have a soccer player on our hands....

last weekend...i was enjoying a plate of toast...the plate was plastic, resting on my baby bump and i was on my last piece when the plate jumped into the air...i guess the little one didn't like it there....he doesn't really like anything resting there....including mom's arms....it's getting tough to fold them anymore....

for the little one...

so i don't usually write about politics, philosophy or anything of a very serious nature on our blog...that is billy's job....but since the little one is mine i figured i could get away with this post...today we bought the little guy's first book...

those of you who know billy at all know that he can't get enough of politics/philosophy...and well i'm rather political myself so of course we would choose a child's version of ayn rand's atlas shrugged to help bring our child into the world of reading...

oh yes he did....

for my birthday billy took me shopping....and he just couldn't help but park here....

of course i threw a fit....and told him i'm not that pregnant yet....but he made me anyway!....i'm wondering now who is reaping the benefits of this situation....don't get me wrong...in the dead of winter i will love this little advantage...but until then...really? really....

really? in only two weeks...

update for you....i feel like the only thing i ever blog about anymore is my ever growing belly! haha...but that's ok because i have fun with it....so here you go....

19 weeks...........................................21 weeks

you might not see the difference...haha but i do...and it's hilarious to me how fast this little guy is growing! and a little scary being that i still have 18 weeks left to go!!!! ahhh!

on a side note....thanks to everyone who called and text and sent messages on my birthday! i am truly blessed by all of the people i have in my life! so thank you! my birthday was so fun and i was definitely spoiled!!!

go utes!

as football season sets in upon us i can't help but feel the ting of excitement in the air, the smell of chili cook offs and hot dog tailgates....we are so excited for our utes to kick butt this year!!! and i am even more excited to purchase our little guys first utah garb...because you know he'll be a ute from day one!!! go utes!!!

photo from utah.edu