Playdate with Isabel and Ashley

Real men wear pink

Real men wear feathers

Real men wear tiaras

Isabel likes her donuts!

Ashley and Charlie

Charlie lighten up - cuddles are a good thing!

First Straw Attempt - not successful

Porch Party at Nana's

Grandma and Charlie

Grandma Pat and Charlie

Walking with Grandma Pat's help

Grandpa and Charlie

Poppop and Charlie

Nana and Charlie

Jo, Grandma Pat and Uncle Hank

Charlie and all 5 grandparents

Charlie and Poppop

Binky

Daddy Kisses

Our Puppy

Charlie likes to crawl while carrying things in his mouth. This short video is the best I have caught it though.

EEG Results

Normal - yay!

Lots of Love

Charlie got lots of love from his sweet cousins, Lily and Kaitlin, on Labor Day weekend.

Warning: For Mature Viewers Only

Today Jim and I brought Charlie to Valley Hospital to get an EEG. They wanted to check his brain waves to make sure something we noticed a few times and thought was possibly a tic, is not in fact any sort of small seizure. Please be assured he was in no pain and the red you see is only a grease pencil they use to mark his head for placement of wires. The entire experience only took 2 hours and the actual EEG was only 30 minutes. No results yet but we are positive we will get good news.

Charlie doesn't have an EEGs bite shirt so we had to settle for the teething bites shirt.

Waiting for the EEG. Marva is standing next to Charlie and she was one of the great technicians.

Wrapping Charlie in his papoose to contain his arms.

Notice arms are tucked in

Now wrapping second layer (arms still in) with velcro.

Arms out! What?! None of us know how or when he did that. The kid is Houdini.

Before they even finished the 25 wires he fell asleep sipping his bottle.

Almost done attaching and sound asleep.

Wrapped to make sure nothing falls off after all that hard work.

30 minutes later he is Bride of Frankenstein

Kind of reminds us of the Charlie Hair of months past...

No worse for the wear -- and they even shampooed him before we drove back home!

We love you Charlie Bear!

Charlie's Week

Charlie got two teeth this week and he got bitten at daycare. Ouch!

Charlie's Nemesis

Charlie started wrestling with this big black bag that weighed about 40 lbs (it was filled with a feather bed) and he couldn't get enough of it. I started filming the first clip right as he pulled it down onto himself. This happened after quite awhile of tugging and pulling on it all different ways. He was determined to get it down.

This clip is when he is trapped by it and wants to get around it when he sees I have the camera.

 This is the funniest of all -- you just have to watch!

 

Just a Bag

It amazes me how long he can play with something as simple as a plastic bag. I love watching him when he is so wrapped up in an activity he forgets anyone is there.

Hurricane Irene

These first few pictures are taken right after the tree hit our home. It's still storming and we don't even know we're about to be evacuated by the fire department yet. These are taken from within the house and porches.

 The following pictures are taken later that same day. We've already been at mom's for a while and the rain and wind have pretty much stopped. We went back to get more things from the house and take better photos for our insurance company. You can see the tree pressed up against the house, lying across the street and also the base of the tree and how all it did to the neighbor's house was lift one fence rail.

It was probably the scariest thing Jim and I have gone through, but all that matters is we are all ok. Eventually the house will be too.