jay & charlotte

Melissa is back at school. She went into school the last week of the school-year back in June, but except for that she hasn’t been to work since March 11th. She is ready to be back and I’m excited for her. She loves what she does, the people she works with and is definitely in her sweet spot teaching fifth graders. It was a gift to have Melissa home for essentially the first six months of Charlotte’s life and we are gonna try as best as we can to score the same timing for our next child.

Fall means Melissa is back to school, but is also means that my traveling schedule will pick up a bit. Melissa had some teacher in service days last week and I was out of town for work so it was Charlotte’s first time spending a few days at one of our best friends house. We’re excited that our friends were on board about watching Charlotte. They have two kids of their own and were gracious enough to take on one more. We are so happy that we did the whole sleep training thing because now when our friend needs to put Charlotte down for a nap, it’s not a big long drawn out process. Charlotte spent three days there last week, but this whole week, I’m not traveling, so Charlotte is all mine.

It hasn’t been just Charlotte and me for an extended period of time since June when Melissa went into work for the last week of school. She is a whole different baby than she was back in June. I know I’m biased, but I think she is a pretty easy baby. I’m looking forward to this week and getting to spend time with her. Yesterday we took a trip to the doctor (for me), ran to the post office and played a lot. I also scored some free Chick-fil-A for Wednesday morning so that will be our first of many dates that I plan to take her on (even though she can’t partake of the heavenly chicken just yet). I’m sure we’ll go on lots of walks and read lots of books and have a great week.

All her bottles are washed, I’ve got her clothes out and ready to go, diaper bag stocked, just waiting for my little lady to wake up from her nap so we can start the day.

-jay