This video is probably worth two minutes of your time. Our daughter is a crazy cat lady and bag lady at once. She can multitask like that.
This video is from Saturday morning. Since that time we got a Christmas tree and I painted the trim that is all scratched up (crazy cats). Oh, and I got dressed.
An overdue video of Charlotte's first time trick or treating. It was dark here at 6pm so not the best video recording conditions. But, I managed to capture what I really wanted to document - Charlotte's stroller. She wanted to bring a few bags along. This was odd because she was not that interested in collecting candy (or as she knows them, "packets"). When people gave her candy, she gave it back and said, "thank you!" A couple of our neighbors had their fire pits in the front yard (one house had s'mores!) and Charlotte has been really into fire ever since the fireplace at Mojo House.
Emily shot this video yesterday and e-mailed it to me this morning. This is Charlotte leaving the house for the day. She has a work bag the same way Emily or I do, some keys somewhere, and then to do her own thing she is carrying a toy kennel with a stuffed dog inside.
This is a sad week for me because I go back to work Friday. But it was another great summer thanks to Charlotte. Last night I went for a run with a couple teachers from the school I worked at two years ago (I hang out with those folks way more than I do the staff at my present school, part of the reason I'm bummed to be going to back to work).
At the end of the run my friend and I were talking about how fortunate we are to have such a family-friendly job. He is probably the least sentimental person I know and he said, "I love my daughter so much it hurts sometimes."
I watch this video and I know exactly what he means.
Edit: Hey, this is Emily. I was planning to blog that video, but Mike beat me to it. Dang it! I was going to post it with the picture below. This is what I look like when we leave in the morning. I am a bag lady, which is story in itself. Anyway, this might be how Charlotte got the idea that dragging a big bag around means, "bye bye."
