Baby Scribner #3

My 9.6 week ultrasound. The heart rate was 176 and the baby was moving around like crazy. The ultrasound tech said everything looked great.

Oops we did it again!

It is true folks! January started out with a bang in the Scribner house. We found out shortly after the first of the year that we are expecting baby #3. Crazy, I know! 3 kids 3 and under. Are we crazy? I think so. This little one came to us as a complete surprise, but a great surprise. This baby has followed suit with his/her brothers and has caused us to worry in the beginning. I had lots of spotting, but despite all of that from what we can tell we have a happy healthy little peanut growing. I am 10.1 weeks today! I had a ultrasound on Tuesday and everything looked great. Heart rate was 176 and the baby was moving like crazy. He/She even waved at Carter, who really wasn't that interested, or didn't understand the ultrasound. But we have told Carter that I have a baby growing in my belly and he often asks to see the baby. He will also tell me that the baby is crying in tummy. It is pretty cute. I have switched practitioners and I am now seeing a midwife whom I LOVE!!! I think it was the best switch I ever made. I am going to try a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean ) so I don't have to automatically have a c-section. We are not going to find out the sex of the baby this time until birth day which I am pretty excited about!

Glad January is OVER!

I found them playing like this. Carter had piled all the toys around Camden

Our focused little reader

Wanting to come in from the cold

a fun day shoveling the snow

little brother watches big brother

helping me make frosting for my cake class

this was just too cute not to post

He came out to the living room wearing my heels

This is what happens when you leave kids unattended while putting away laundry

a day stuck inside is a day to make forts

January has been a really long long month for us. It has been a month full of fevers, antibiotics, countless doctor visits, crabby kids, busy days, big events, and tiredness. I was hoping that 2010 would start off with a bang but it was more of a dud. All the yuckyness aside the kids are still being their funny selves and amazing us everyday. I haven't been the greatest about taking pictures either but here are some of the highlights.
We have spent a lot of days couped up since everyone has been sick which means finding our own fun. We built a lot of forts, played with a ton of playdoh and made lots of messes. It is funny how much Carter and Camden play together now (on a good day) and do it without fighting. I just love what I walk into if I step away to put away laundry or the dishes. Carter is usually the ring leader and shows Camden how to empty out the cupboards or he will pile all the toys around Camden, which he thinks if funny until he can't get out. I love watching Camden laugh at all the silly antics that Carter does, except it does fuel Carter's fire and he does it more and usually takes it one step to far. Carter also got his first dose of "life isn't fair" this month. When it was time to put toys away Carter said "Tamen help" and we said, "sorry buddy Camden is too little but one day he will help you" It is kind of sad though because Camden does make a lot of the mess. Carter has a new/quirky/annoying thing he is doing now at bedtime. After we tuck him in he gets up and lays by his door and puts his fingers underneath as if to summon help. If we ignore him long enough he will start to call our names or rattle the door. We have tried talking to him through the door, opening the door, and ignoring it all together and nothing seems to really nip it in the bud. The good thing is, once he is told to go back to bed, he never gets back up again. It is really frustrating though. He has continued to enjoy anything and everything "monkey george" (curious george) We read 1,000 monkey george books a day and he requests to watch it everyday too! The good thing is if I have to make dinner or get something done it keeps him occupied for 30mins. Thank you PBS kids! I feel like Carter's vocabulary has soared lately. He is talking in lots of sentences and is talking about a lot more things. If you ask him what he did that day he will list off several things. He has a crazy good memory and still talks about the time "we didn't make it" over to Erin and Brian's on Christmas because "the tractors didn't move the snow" That is something he talks about everyday. He is counting to 10 and saying his ABC's without prompting, but not if you ask. And we finally got rid of the worst question in the world "WHY"! But is was replaced with "what happened?"
Camden is going to crawl for the rest of his life! This boy refuses to stand without assistance. He will sit down every time we try. he can walk with us by holding on to one finger and does well and can maneuver just about anything while holding on. He just has NO desire to walk on his own. Little stinker. He has switched over to whole milk this week and is doing well. We are working on getting rid of the bottle which I hope will be done in the next two weeks. Then we will tackle the binky. We are getting his one year pictures taken this weekend by lifesastoryphotography.com so you will have to check back and see those.

Camden's Birthday

Camden's 1st Birthday

I know this should have been done a long time ago but January was a long and trying month. But I don't want to forget about my baby and his special day. On Camden's actual birthday I make him a cake and my parents came over and helped us celebrate with him. He loved the cake and was excited that their was more to come that weekend. Then on Sunday we had a family party that was a fish theme. I made him 2 fish cakes and fish bowl cupcakes for the kids. It was a pretty low key party, but the kids seemed to have fun. I made him a video (which I might try and post, but it keeps getting harder and harder to post video) and he opened just a few presents. We are going to have another little get together this summer so that people can buy him some summer toys. Overall it went over very well, and I think Camden had a great time! Thanks to everyone who came!

sneak peak

I just had to share the pictures of Camden's cake I made for his party tonight. I will post more pictures from the party later.

My Baby is ONE!

The shirt my mom made for his birthday!

My bald baby

happy to be 1!

It's true, my baby is no longer a baby but a one year old! Last year at 4:20am I gave birth to a 7lb 15oz baby boy. Camden Parker Scribner is now an independent, solid food eater, pulling up to stand on all objects, walking between objects, four teeth having, smiley little boy. He is coming into his own lately and we really feel like his personality is showing through. He loves attention from anyone and loves to laugh and smile. He is starting to express his wants through loud yelling/crying and at times fits. He now knows that if he cries when Carter is around that we will reprimand Carter's behavior even if he wasn't as rough as we thought. So now we have to be careful and make sure that Carter actually did something to Camden. Camden is playing the roll of little brother perfectly. It is pretty cute when you catch them playing together or see Carter give him a toy to play with. We knew there was a heart inside Carter somewhere and we see glimpses of it here and there.
Camden seems to be phasing out his bottle which is good, but we have been a little lazy about giving him a sippy cup or a cup with a straw. So we really need to get on that so we can phase out the bottle. Camden got two new teeth this week, his top two. So he officially has four teeth at age one. He is cruising furniture and moving from the coffee table to couch and back a lot more. He doesn't seem to do that great with standing alone but walks well behind objects. I think it will be another month or so before we see him walking.
Tonight we are going to have cake with him as a family and then we are having a little party this Sunday with close family and friends. I can't believe that a year has gone by already. My baby isn't my baby anymore.

Thank God...

The car in the ditch

Chad directing traffic

I'm alive! I was out driving today and even though the roads seemed pretty clear I hit a patch of black ice and lost complete control of the my car. I started to swirve into on coming traffic so I pulled the steering wheel to the right and was able to miss the huge truck heading straight for me and slid into the ditch. Luckily there was a ton of snow in the ditch, because I missed hitting a tree head on a foot or so. I was fine and the car was fine, so we are happy. We had to call a tow truck to come get us out but all is well now. Unfortunately no one stopped to see if I was ok but my mom came and got me and took me home. I hope this never happens again!

Carter's finished bed

Even though Carter had been in his big boy bed for a few months we didn't have his bedroom complete. My mom has been working on the comforter and accessories and got them finished. So we moved up the bed frame from downstairs and set up his bed with his new comforter and pillows. They turned out SO cute! Thank you mom, you are the best! Carter loves it! His favorite part is the "monkey george" pillow. I love the pillow with his name on it. Now Carter has a completed room! ( now i just need to lower the letters that say "Carter" on the wall. They were that high when he had his crib in there)

Family Time

Chuck-e-cheese

These past two weeks have been super fun. Chad had off of work and we were able to do a lot of family things. We spend time with family and friends and Chad and I even got a few nights out together as well. We were snowed in until Monday (Dec 28) at 3:30pm. But then we got out and had some fun. Carter got to spend time with the triplets and my parents took them all the lost and fun one day. We even took our family to Chuck-e-cheese for the first time. We really went for Chad to re-live the good ole days. It still looked the same and Carter was blown away with all the noise and toys. Both of the boys ate dinner and watched the robots and then we played on all the riding toys. Carter really wanted to go into the climbing thing so we pushed him up there and he stayed up there with all the big kids for 15 minutes, until we finally got him to come down. Carter loved it and I am sure he will want to go back some day. Even Camden had a little fun. We spent a good chunk of time shoveling, snow blowing and playing out in all the snow. Carter loves being outside and always had a blast. I posted a few pictures of all the snow drifts and piles of snow around our house.

Christmas Day

Christmas day 2009

On Christmas day we spend the day snowed in. We woke up and opened presents at home and then tried to venture out into the blizzard to eat brunch at Brian and Erin's house. We made it two blocks and were face with a huge drift blocking off the road so we had to turn around. We luckily made it back in our drive way and back into our warm home. We spend the day playing with new toys and that night I went to work. I had to have work come pick me up and take me to the hospital but not after two hours of trying to get them unstuck while picking up another nurse.

Christmas Eve

Christmas 2009

The Tuesday before Christmas we went over to Al and Karen's for a Scribner Christmas. We ate dinner and opened gifts. It was fun watching the boys get excited about the gifts but Carter still just wanted to open one gift and play with the toy. He didn't want to open more gifts. I guess we should have just bought him one gift. Then on Christmas eve day we went over to my parents house and ate lunch and opened gifts. All the kids we super excited and the energy was high. They got lots of cool stuff. Carter has been enjoying his toys and Camden's. It was like a double Christmas for him. Then we took naps and went to church. We made it through all the snow and went over to Chads cousin Christie's house for the Hardt family celebration. They boys were good and it was a nice relaxing evening. Thank you to all of our family and friends who gave us such nice gifts. We really appreciate it! Here are some photos of all the festivities.

Snowed In!

For all of those who don't live in Lincoln Nebraska, here is what it is like to be snowed in.

Thank You!

Here are some thank you's from the kids. Thank you to everyone who got our kids gifts. It was so nice of you! They love them!



Thank you to Curt and Rene!



Thank you Uncle Gary and Aunt Natalie from Carter! ( he says thank you twice, the first time he turns away from the camera trying to say thank you uncle and the second he says it soft closer to the end, sorry it wasn't the greatest thank you)



Thank you Uncle Gary and Aunt Natalie from Camden!



Thank you Uncle Gary and Aunt Natalie from Will, Xander and Grace!

Carter Sledding

Here is a video of Carter and the triplets sledding. Carter is riding with Grace.

Ginger Bread Cookies

Getting ready to decorate

Eating the frosting

Serious about decorating
more decorating
The finished product

Last night I bought a ginger bread cookie box that had all the things in it to decorate. I thought that a ginger bread house might be too tough for Carter this year so I went with cookies instead. It was a ton a fun and pretty easy. I made up the frosting and set things up and Carter had a great time. I put frosting on his cookies and he stuck the candy on it. He also ate the candy and the frosting at any chance he got. He was pretty serious when he decorated, and wanted to get them right on the frosting blotches. It also didn't lead to as big of a mess as I anticipated. Carter really wanted to eat the cookies but I am not sure they would be that good so we opted to just eat some candy. It was a fun little holiday treat for Carter and I.

Camden 11 months

Yesterday Camden turned 11 months old. I CANNOT believe that my baby is going to be 1 year in 1 month. It is crazy. He is getting so big! Here is what my 11 month old son can do.
He is babbling a lot. saying da da da da, ma ma ma ma, ba ba ba ba, and some others. He likes to make noise so that he can be heard over his brother. He is cruising furniture and pulling up to a stand but only on objects that are low. he walks behind his walker and LOVES table food. He is starting to push away the baby food and wanting to feed himself. He has had almost every food we eat. He eats a lot too! He even seems like he is growing away from his bottle which is great. Hopefully weaning him from that will be fairly easy. He is sleeping well. He still takes a 30minute to 1 hour nap in the morning and is usually taking a 2.5 to 3.5 hour afternoon nap. The more he sleeps the better he does and better he sleeps so we don't ever wake him up anymore. He still goes down at 7 and sleeps till 5,6 or 7am. If he wakes up before 7 he takes a bottle and goes back down till 7-7:30. We haven't had any trouble with him waking up in the middle of the night for awhile which we are really grateful for. He even has short times with Carter where they play quietly and good together. We can only hope that this turns into a great friendship between them. Camden is also very smiley and animated like Carter. He loves showing his bottom 2 teeth (his only teeth) when he smiles and enjoys clapping. He likes being around Carter and playing with him when it doesn't get too rough. That is about all I have on my little man.

Battlestar Galactica Finale Night

Hello friends and family. Chad here, to tell you a story that's too nerdy for a Lisa posting, but must be told.

For the past year or so, Lisa's brother Brian has been watching each season of Battlestar Galactica on DVD and then loaning them to me to watch. I finally caught up to him during the last season and we decided to watch the last three episodes together. This Battlestar Galactica Finale Night finally happened last Saturday. The finale night was a win- the only failure that comes to mind is that Lisa and Brian's wife Erin forgot to wear their Number Six red dresses as they were instructed.

Now behind every successful geek, there is a woman who loves him. Mine decided, perhaps against her better judgment, that she would support this finale night through the use of her baking skills. Here she is working on the Cylon brownies.



The finished brownies. Frakkin' flawless work, Lisa.



What finale night would be complete without Cylon Raider crab-stuffed crescent rolls?





And let's not forget the first couple of seasons of Battlestar, during which their bourbon was green.



Thanks to Lisa and Erin letting us have a night away from the kids, and because of Lisa's prep, this finale night will go down in nerd history (or at least Brian's and my little piece of it). So say we all.

Santa

On Sunday after church we went to the mall to eat and to see Santa. It was fairly uneventful. We couldn't get Carter to smile, but that is nothing new. So here is the picture! I am not sure what shirt santa is wearing but I would have preferred him to just wear a normal red jacket.

Carter Praying

Here is Carter saying the "God is great, God is good, and we thank him for our food"

this is what Carter actually said. "God is great, God is great, for our food, and thank you...........amen"
silly boy!

Thanksgiving weekend

We had a fun and eventful Thanksgiving weekend. We started it out with lunch at the Niebuhrs. We had a turkey dinner and play time for the kids and then headed home to take a nap and watch Christmas Vacation. I was suppose to work but got RTO'd so I was able to go to the Hardt family meal that evening. We had another turkey dinner at Grandma Hardts house and celebrated a few birthdays. Then on Saturday we had the Scribner family Thanksgiving over at our house and I got my first chance to make home made stuffing. Some of it turned out good and the rest was a poor attempt, but at least I know what to do next time. I also got to worry all night the night before that the turkey wasn't going to be thawed in time but it all worked out and we had a great meal. We also got to spend time with some family that we don't see that often so it was great to be able to catch up with them. Here are some photos from all the festivities.

Thanksgiving 2009