While we were away.........

We went to Virginia for Will's cousin's wedding, and spent some time in DC. We had a nice mini vacation and it was really cool when Will took the whole week off when we got back! Charlie and Daddy swimming in the indoor pool at the Hotel.

Charlie took a little nap on the way to DC.

Arlington Cemetary

Here is the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers, very cool!

Auntie Katie and Uncle Theo (Tatie and Eo, as Charlie calls them)

Time for the wedding, you can tell I was in love with how cute Charlie was because I only have pictures of him. The ceremony started and everyone was supposed to be quiet and respectful, but 1 year olds don't get that, so we spent a lot of time walking around. Christina came down the road in a horse drawn carriage and Charlie kept saying "Neigh, Neigh" during the ceremony so we had to keep our distance, which is why I don't have any pics of the wedding.

Little Man!!

My handsome guys!!

Time to party!

Mmmm.... how about some chilled watermelon soup.........pish posh!

Taking a little baby break

Charlie's uncle Baba (Bobby)

This was our chance to party....until............

Someone woke up and had to dance, he was the hit of the party!

He danced with grandma........

He tried to get daddy to dance................

He waited for the band to play more music.........

and he got down and dirty with Tatie!!

Realizations

I've come to a few realizatons lately. The first was that I used to have a little thing called privacy and it's been about 17 months since I've had some . I've also realized that Charlie pays way to much attention to me. This realization happened on Saturday when I went to pee and Charlie came toddling into the bathroom after me. He said his ever so cute usual "Hi" and then what really surprised me was he pulled some toilet paper off the roll to give me. I was like "wow, good boy thanks for helping mommy." But the best part is he tried to push it between my legs (while laughing)! I was stunned. He's been playing me all along. Which tells me somebody might be meeting the potty real soon.

I've also been consumed with getting myself back to school, yup that's right, I'm going back. I'm all registered and ready to get started with my Master's degree. I'm taking 2 classes at night so daddy get's to do the night thing twice a week. All I can say is I hope that Dinner and a Bath happens before this does...................

And as for Charlie, he has become quite the motor-mouth lately. For what seems like forever Charlie has only said Dada, Hi, and ugh. Well times they are a changing because in the past 2 weeks Charlie has aquired a 40 -50 word vocabulary. I thought I would make a list of everything he was saying to share with everyone but then I lost track once I got to word 38 so I'm guessing he's close to 50 words. I think he just woke up one day and decided to talk. It's amazing, he does animal sounds, points to things in his book and names them, and hangs on the refridgerator door yelling CHEESE (his new favorite food)!!

Princeton here we come!!!

If Princeton doesn't work out there's always the Marines like dad. Here's Charlie's military recruitment poster.... I WANT YOU!!

busy busy weekend!!

On Saturday the fam went to the Metro NY Hot Air Balloon festival. Wow, what a trip! There was so much going on there. I had no idea the event was going to be so huge.I also didn't think that all of Long Island was going to be there until we ended up in traffic trying to get there, and then more traffic to get a parking space, and then riding a school bus to the festival because the parking was so far. It wasn't until standing in line for a very long time just to get tickets to get in, I realized that there was a gazillion people there that all had the same idea we did! The first thing we did was haul ass over to the Monster Truck show.

So Cool!!!

Add this face and some tears and you get the idea about how Charlie felt about the Monster trucks. He loved them until they turned their engines on and started jumping cars, it was just too loud for little buddy.

Wheelie Competition!

We also saw some MotoX tricks,

and then some BMXers,

and skateboarding.

Got to Represent!

Taking a break from the crowds.

Looking for more excitement.

We decided to get a closer look at the Monster Trucks, with the engines off, Charlie wasn't scared at all.

He really wanted to get closer to them but we weren't allowed.

Kid Rock ?!!?!

Now on to the balloons.......

There were so many balloons to see.

I thought you could only do that in cartoons!

This was a cute one!

As it got darker and the air got cooler more and more lined the sky.

HAMPTONITES!!

On Sunday we went to the Hamptons, la dee da......

Grandma joined us! We dug Charlie a biggest hole in all of the Hampton Bays. We decorated it like a castle in order to fit in with all the mansions. I'm pretty sure the other kids were jealous their parents wouldn't bother digging them such a colossal hole!

We were trekking a lot of water back and forth to the hole, until.....

we dug a little hole closer to the water because the big one was too dry.

Old Macdonald had a farm.......

This is Charlie's newest toy, he is very into barns and farm animals lately. He walks around the house saying ee i eee i (he doesnt' quite have the o part down yet) and chases me around with the Baby Macdonald DVD to watch it all day long.

Look at how he's sitting, too funny!

and that's a wrap!