NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

• It's not as easy to take pictures of Charlie as it looks. One of these days I'm going to post all of the not so good pictures of Charlie, so I can finally get the recognition I so humbly deserve.  
• Charlie is starting to look like me.  He's also getting more and more handsome.  Coincidence?  I think not.
• Charlie has started to recognize that I am leaving in the morning.  He and Nilda walked me to the door one Monday morning and he started to cry.  I heard him crying behind the closed door as I went off to work and I loved it.  That's wrong, right?
• That coffee cup in your hand belongs to Charlie.  So does that newspaper.  
• Charlie loves reading the newspaper, and by "read" I mean ball it up and make it crinkle and then rip it apart like coyotes going after a buffalo.  
• Charlie flops all around during the night.  I take pictures of him to document the many positions he can take just moments apart from each other.  He hates the flash, but it's worth it.  It's for the blog, Charlie.
• This kid is getting some hair.  It looks strawberry blonde, but Nilda tells me that there is a low likelihood that he will remain a strawberry blonde, and she read that on the internet so it must be true.
• Empty milk carton = Charlie's new favorite toy.
• Charlie has learned that if you splash hard enough in the bath, you may be rewarded with a cool and refreshing drink.
• Charlie crawled backwards and freaked himself the fuck out.  Nilda and I watched a Sesame Street episode about Elmo giving up the binky and keep talking about how brilliant it was. 
• I don't like Jason Mraz or his song, but I love what Sesame Street did with it.  Seriously, this show is awesome.
• Charlie has started speaking in complete sentences.  They begin with "Na" and end in "na na na na NA NA NA na NA NA NA na NANANANA!!!!"
• Andrew, Harley and the kids came up last Sunday and we had a wonderful time in the park.  Charlie luuuuuuvs Lilah.  He could not stop staring at her and was so excited when she wanted to play with him.  I always thought of Lilah as a little kid but now she's the big cousin. 
• We finally hit 10,000 miles in El Carrito. 
• Charlie loves visiting everyone in Philadelphia, which we know because he doesn't bitch when we're there.  My parents still can't get how any human being can sleep as much as he does.  It's the Mommy genes.
• If there was one thing I would want Charlie to know, it's that he is loved and wanted.  But if he doesn't start teething soon, we are going to have to have a serious conversation.