The Scribner Family

A boy and his dog

We found this one day. Camden started and Carter finished

Mr. Stubborn who doesn't want to walk

I am not sure I have a ton to report even though it has been a while since I had a general update. We all had the stomach flu last week except Chad, so it was a pretty nasty week. They kids were even sweet enough to share their "bug" with other family members. Sorry guys! We are all trying to keep our heads above water with all the sickness and me with nausea and headaches. Needless to say things have been pretty low key. We did go to Lost in Fun last weekend with Shawn and Carrie and then out to dinner. This weekend we took Carter to the Nebraska Women's basketball game (which had their first sell out ever) and that was a good time. He got lots of junk to eat and loved running around the track we took him to at half time. he also enjoyed seeing the mascot "little red." He kept telling us he wanted to *hug* him but when my mom took him close enough to touch him he was scared. He even got to be on the big screen for a little bit. We were very lucky that Brian and Erin agreed to watch Camden for us so we could have some one on one time with Carter. Thanks Brian and Erin, we own you one! Unfortunately Carter decided to get sick again last night and threw up all over Grandma and Grandpa Scribner. We don't know what it was all about, but I am SO tired of PUKE! (and poo for that matter)
Camden has finally started to stand on his own for long periods of time but not matter how much we work with him he refuses to take a step. He will just lean forward and fall instead of moving his stiff, old man legs. He might be two before he ever walks. We have also made the transition to sippy cup. It has been hard with him being sick and he still doesn't take enough fluid in, but we are hoping it will get better. I hope next time I post we are telling you that he is walking.
Carter has started taking a nap without a diaper this week. He did have one accident but otherwise has been dry. We hope this continues, and only gets better. His vocabulary is growing and growing and I love listening to his stories. His new thing is when you ask him a question he starts it by saying "ummmmm" and pauses before answering. He also did something this week that will be very memorable to me. I am not sure if any of you know this about me but I have a horrible fear that when I wake up and open my eyes in the middle of the night that someone will be standing over me. It is so bad that I hate sleeping closest to the door. (this all stems from a childhood incident you will have to ask me about) Anyway one night with weekend Carter kept waking up crying and after taking several turns getting him to go to sleep I finally thought he was asleep. My very tired body had just fallen asleep when I was awoken by a whisper of my name. I opened my eyes and right in front of my face was Carter. I was so sleep deprived and freaked out and that I yelled and jumped up and scared the daylights out of Carter. I may have scared him enough that he might not ever do it again. The crazy thing about all of this is that he has NEVER gotten out of bed and came into our room so I never ever expected him to be there. He usually cries till we go to his room. After that happened I thought I was going to have an anxiety attack so I had to go sleep down stairs because I was so afraid he would do it again and that I would freak out again. Anyway it was a very memorable moment for me, and him too probably.