So many presents!

Charlie got lots of presents from all of his new friends in New Jersey! Here are a few pictures of him with his new stuff.

Charlie and Binky

This is Binky, Pete's parents dog. How cute is he? And how cute are he and Charlie? Adorable, right?

Pete's childhood friends, plus cake!

Pete and Sam and Ray all grew up together. Now they all have kids! Look how cute they are!

Sam's son Charlie and our Charlie liked each other a lot!

Cake! Ray's sister Alysia makes a mean cake! Look how amazing it is! And delicious! Even the Dino on top is edible!

Charlie meets his east coast aunt and uncle

Tita Krissy and Tito Ira!

Krissy

Krissy with Ray and Logan

Charlie loves Tito Ira

Charlie does Jersey

This weekend, we took a trip up to New Jersey to see Pete's family. Pete's parents threw us an excellent party Saturday! Charlie got to meet a bunch of fun new people, and he had a great time being fawned over! Here are a few pictures. These are in Pete's family backyard.  I don't have a ton of pictures from that day- if anyone has more, I would love to see them/post them.

Party time!

Playing by the pond!

Charlie!

Charlie with Tito Ira's mom and grandma!

So cute!

Charlie with aunt Rory, Logan's grandma

Charlie and Logan (with Ray and Pete)

More tomorrow!

Monday hiking

I have lots of pictures from this weekend, and I will post some soon. But for now, here are some pictures from a hike Charlie and I took today. He was having a super grumpy day, so I decided I would go let him scream out in the woods instead of in the house. 

It was lightly sprinkling and beautiful. Charlie even fell asleep!

The trail...

Charlie awake

Charlie asleep

We saw a giant snapping turtle. It's hard to get a size perspective in this picture, but he was about 18 inches long. That's a big turtle!

Our explorer sleeps- for now!

Look how big he looks!

I love this shirt

Charlie's friend Chris Shimizu made this shirt for him. It cracks me up every time!

Charlie's best friends- wiki and daddy!

Wiki and Charlie

Petie and Charlie- look how much they look alike!

Wrestling with T-Rex

I like that they are in same position.

Sunny Monday

Today was a beautiful day. Charlie and I spent the afternoon in the backyard playing. 

Ripping up magazines is one of his favorite things to do. Here you can see how he rips out the pages and rolls around on them. He just doesn't appreciate what the good people at Better Homes and Gardens do.

Look how cute he is!

Trying to crawl!

A few more beach pictures, part 2

All the kids love Pete!

Eva going for a ride in the dump truck

Kenny and Mabel lounging on the sand couch

Playing on the beach

Charlie loves picking things up!

Smily baby!

A few more beach pictures

I know I said I was done, but Samantha just gave me their pictures from the beach, and I had to share a few!

Molly and Eva

Mischievous Avey

Surfer Charlie

Brian and Charlie

Pete being adorable with Mabel. This picture makes my heart happy.

5 month pictures!

I know these are really late! I took them before we went to the beach, but just now had a chance to go through them. None of the pictures are awesome, but they tell a great story about my little man.

I put Charlie down in his cute little outfit, and his hands immediately go in his mouth

I distract him and get a little tiny smile...

He gets scared of the dinos....

He starts wrestling with the dinosaurs...

And immediately rolls over on his tummy...

He refuses to turn back over. No matter how many times I flip him, he just goes right back to his belly.  I finally give in, and put the "5 months" sticker on his back...

He tries to eat Dino Dan's horn...

I finally get him flipped back over, and get one kinda cute picture...

Then he rips off the sticker...

I give up...

But he's just soooo handsome!