Easter

Grace carrying her big egg

Camden with his loot

presents from Oma and Opa

Uncle Brian showing him how it works

done hunting for eggs

found one

he found one too!

Carter found his big egg!

We had a busy Easter this year. We got up and went to 8:30 church and then over to my mom's for an egg hunt and fresh fruit salsa with homemade cinnamon chips. Yum! Then we watched the kids play with all their new loot and then ate lunch. Camden still wasn't feeling well and fell asleep on Grandma at 12:30. We then went home took naps (me included) and got up for our second celebration at the Hardt's. Chad and I were in charge of the egg hunt this year and we think it went pretty well. We hid some pretty hard eggs for the older kids so it was a bit of a challenge for them. Carter loved it and had a great time with all his cousins/2nd cousins. We ate dinner there and then headed home for bed. Chad and I were still feeling a bit under the weather so we just relaxed the rest of the evening. Carter really had a good time hunting for eggs this year and did a really good job. Hope you all had a great Easter too!
check out the 2 posts below this as well.

Sand and Sun

Enjoying the nice weather

having fun

playing in the sand

getting messy

We had a nice long weekend with Chad being off on Friday. So we took the opportunity to get a few things done outside while the weather was nice. We cleaned up our bushes and garage and cleaned up around the house. Then we decided to put sand in the sand box. Carter was *really* excited. We had trouble getting him out of it. He loves to play in sand and is crazy about this need addition. Here are a few pictures of it.

Camden's one year pictures

I keep forgetting to post these pictures, so here are the family pictures we took a little after Camden turned one. We had Curt Brinkman of www.lifesastoryphotography.com do them again and they turned out great!

Cam 1 year pictures

Crazy Weather

The snowmen Chad and Carter built

up close

playing t-ball with Ethan and Maddie

enjoying the swing set

having fun

fast asleep in the swing

sweet baby (notice the one shoe off, that is Cam's signature)

We are so happy that the weather seems to be changing around here. Although it still changes frequently we have been able to enjoy some days of nice weather. This means lots of walks and lots of playing on the swing set. I can't wait for Camden to be proficient at walking so he can really enjoy the back yard as much as Carter does. One day last week my friend Rene and her kids Ethan and Maddie came over for lunch and to play. The kids all had a blast outside and despite the picture Camden had fun too. So much fun he fell asleep. He did it in true Camden style with one shoe off. He is funny because he doesn't like to swing. He likes to sit in the swing but hates moving. He has been blessed with another *cold* that is getting worse so hopefully a call to the doctor will fix that. His walking is coming around nicely. He now braves walking from one object to another even without coaxing. He still prefers to crawl but I think it is coming along.
Carter has either been really good, or really bad lately. He has had some amazing days where I see my sweet sweet boy come out. He is helpful and nice, and even shares with his brother. We have heard a lot *pleases* lately BEFORE we ask which makes me feel so good. It means all the repetition and work is finally starting to pay off. He at least understands and knows that to get something you have to say please. He is also saying thank you without being prompted. Amazing! When he helps Camden or shares his things with him it just makes me so happy. I love that sweet boy. Then there are the dark days. The days you know are going to be bad when he wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, pushes your buttons, deliberately disobeys, whines and cries at most things. Those days are they days that make you need a vacation. But I can only hope that the next day will be a good one. The best part is, is that he is turning into a little man with stories, and ideas and I just love watching his brain work. I was also amazed this week at how much he is absorbing now. We were reading Curious George and the snow (for the 6,000th time) before bed one night and he started finishing most of the sentences. Not just the ones we thought he would but some obscure ones. It blows my mind how much their brains can absorb. He is getting better and better at reciting the Lord's Prayer as well and soon I will video tape that. It is pretty cute.
I also just want to say thanks to my mom and Chad for taking care of the kiddos this last Friday and Saturday so I could scrapbook. It was so much fun and great time away. I got 26 pages done and lots of chatting done. I am very lucky to have such a great Husband and mom who are willing to help me get away. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!

Camden is WALKING!

Walking to his brother

walking to grandpa

Camden has starting walking. Right before he turned 14 months old he started taking more than just a few steps. He is now taking about 8-10 steps and even more at times. He can even catch his balance mid walk, regroup and keep walking. He is even brave enough to let go of objects and take a few steps when no one is around. So pretty soon we will have a full blown walking toddler around our house. I just wanted to share the good news!

My lucky clovers

Carter with his treat

Cutting up the corned beef

The cabbage and veggies

ready to eat

Full belly

Well I decided today that I wanted to celebrate St. Patrick's Day by doing a fun few things. First I dressed the boys in the only green shirts I could find. Then I decided that I would make Corned Beef and Cabbage for dinner (which I have never had nor made). So I took the boys to the store and I got Carter a chocolate doughnut with green sprinkles which he ate half of after lunch and that was his favorite part of the day. We got get outside in the nice weather this afternoon and ended the night with a late dinner for Chad and I that turned out pretty good. Here are a few pictures from the day.

All things new

playing with the macaroni before I made it

watching his brothers every move

the pugs bathing eachother

he fell asleep on me one morning, and I laid him down to get this picture

where they are not suppose to be, but monkey see, monkey do
(Carter loves it that Camden will follow him, so he is not the only one in trouble)

He loves his pug dogs

learning to play

our little ham

I haven't really written to much of an update on the boys lately and thought I would share a few new things. Camden got a new tooth at the end of February. His right upper lateral incisor. The left one looks like it is about to poke through as well. He is consistently waving *bye bye* and a about a week ago he took his first independent steps. He has totaled four in a row before falling. He is super huge on practicing but I think in the next few weeks it should take off. He is %100 off the bottle now and has been for a few weeks. He is still not a fan of the sippy cup but doesn't understand a straw quite yet. It wasn't the smoothest transition since he was sick during some of the time we were trying to wean him but there were no sleepless nights so that we are thankful for. He hasn't been taking the greatest naps either so I don't know if some changes or coming or if his teeth are bothering him. Hopefully it is short lived since he is my good sleeper now. (it only took a whole year) He is also a bottomless pit. I have realized that if you set in his highchair and don't put food in front of him within 30 seconds you will regret it. He freaks out when he is hungry. And don't try and put some filler on the tray until the food gets there unless it is something he loves or you will get an earful as well. If it is 10 minutes past meal time he will also start having meltdowns. Part of it is my fault because I got out of the habit of offering morning snacks, and not that I have reinstated that things have been a bit better. I will say he can eat me under the table. It is amazing how much food he can put away and how fast he can do it. One last story on Camden is that his new favorite game is to play *where's Camden*. He will put his fists over his eyes until you say "where's Camden" then he releases and waits for you to say "There he is!" If you happen to forget, he will do it again until he gets the response he is waiting for. He just giggles and giggles and can do it for hours.

Now on the Carter. We have had a weird thing going on over here with him throwing up. It started as the stomach flu and then after that was way over he threw up again, just once and acted fine after than. Then a week later, same thing. I don't know what is going on but hopefully it is done and won't happen anymore. Carter has started to say to Chad or I after he got yelled at or in trouble, "I want mommy happy" or "I want daddy happy". It is super funny and I don't know where he got it from. Of course our response is "we would be happy if you listened to us." He sings up a storm especially when he is independently playing. The two most popular songs are the *wheels on the bus* and *ring around the rosey*. I always smile when I hear him just singing his heart out while playing, it is very sweet. He has also gotten into trouble a lot lately for not coming when we say 1-2-3. We are trying to teach him that when we get to 3 he needs to be standing next to us. Needless to say he has spent some time in *time out* for it. So now when we start counting he yells "I'm tomming, I'm tomming" When it comes to food Carter is usually pretty generous and lately has wanted to share his food with Camden. It usually isn't a problem but he likes to give him things like his sucker, raisins, whole grapes, a whole slice of cheese. Plus he doesn't realize that Camden doesn't always just *take a bit* So we have tried to tell him that somethings are just for big boys and he seems ok with that. Carters ability to talk on the phone has taken a huge step lately. He seems to understand the concept and can talk about his day or answer simple questions. Sometimes you have to hint to him, but his language is amazing. He is speaking in full sentences and is repeating some amazing things. I LOVE that we can have conversations and love hearing what he has to say. Some of his favorite things are Curious George, the Little People DVD, The movie Cars (or anything to do with the movie Cars), the color black, suckers, spiderman underwear, and anything that has tires. The last thing I have to document is the fact that we have had bedtime battles. It started because we were trying to encourage him to get out of bed if he needed to go pee. So he first started getting out of bed and just laying by the door then it escalated to him getting up and opening the door. So after a week or two of this nonsense we laid down the law and said no getting up. (we will work on the night time pee thing later) So we had one really bad night of him screaming and us taking him back to bed. But I have to say if you would have video taped us we did it just like super nanny says and it worked. The next night he tried it just once, had a tiny set back the next night and tried several times but since then it has been good. I did turn on a little bit brighter night light for him which I think he liked because he can *read* longer in bed before he gets tired. So I took a picture of him the first night we had the battle. This is his little hand sticking out from under the door. This is where he fell asleep.
On to baby Scribner #3. I had an appointment on Monday and all was well with the baby. The heart rate was 156. ( I was hoping for higher so I could think their was a chance it was a girl) We are not going to find out this time around so I have a full nine months to pretend I might have a little girl. But in case you wanted to see what the baby would look like, here you go.

Camden's First Year Video

This is a little late in posting but we just found a place to upload it to. So here it is in all its long glory. If you are bored and want to watch it, enjoy!

Camden's First Year from Chad Scribner on Vimeo.

Movie Night

Ready to watch the Movie

Tatze getting in on the action

The Snack
Eating their snack
Laying down after eating
Xander and Will
Playing before the movie is over
Having fun

Carter often asks to *watch* a movie but we haven't ever done it. His attention span is usually about an hour with TV so we have never really tried it. But we thought it might be fun to have the triplets over and have a movie night. They love movies and sit well through them, so we thought maybe Carter would want to be like them and watch it too. So we had a really fun night. First of all I told Carter the night before what was going to happen and that was all he talked about the next day. The triplets couldn't have been here soon enough. We grill hot dogs and had a yummy dinner then we rushed to put on jammies and start the movie cars by 6:30 since it is 2 hours. They all got snuggled in on the couch and enjoyed the movie, even Carter. Then about 7:30 I brought down some popcorn and gummy worms which was a hit. Carter made it all the way to 8:00 until he had had enough of sitting and watching the movie. So he got up and started playing and so did the rest of the kids. The night was a huge hit for Carter. He has been talking about it all day today and wants to *watch* the movie Cars again.

Random Videos

make sure and check out the 2 posts below

Standing!! (here is the proof)

So BIG!

Content just standing and not walking

I have been a slacker about capturing Camden standing on his own. So here are some pictures and a video (if i can get it loaded)

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.