Visite avec Mémère en Floride

Wow, it was the first time on a flight where we felt we didn't need to entertain Charlie the whole route. He's matured to the point where he looks after himself for the most part and watches movies and plays card games but really a totally new way of travelling now. He's really changed.

What keeps him busy for a surprising amount of time is the airplane emergency exit instructions. He studies it very carefully.

We no longer bring the car seat on now as well and either check it in at the luggage or on the way home we did it at the gate check since he was asleep in it and we didn't need to get him out until the final security check.

Even though the aircraft was full to capacity it still didn't feel too busy and there was no traffic to the aiport in Tampa nor at the Chicago end. Strange, but welcomed.

We had a great time at Busch gardens but I'd say Charlie and the pool is the highlight. He just couldn't get enough of it.

Of course, he was sad leaving Pitou and after this visit it sure is reinforcing the fact that we need a dog. He things they are "très mignon".

He had a blast and will need a day to recouperate for sure, as we all will!

Happy Birthday Eileen!

Parent Teacher Interview

On as rencontré Sarah et Béatrice aujourdui pour quinze minutes. C'était vite mais elles ont dis que Charles est académique et très structurer et discipliner.

Clothes

I know where he got these habbits from but man oh man, he is one stubborn irishman (frenchman?). In the morning he must choose his own clothes. And of course he usually changes at least 3 times before the time he's off to school. Sometimes other pijamas, or another set of shorts and shirts and usually tries to match any color t-shirt I have on. Eventually he does get something closer to his school uniform colors....yup the french flag colors (or is it the us flag colors?)

Anyways, any morning where you're wondering where Charlie is is typically because he's in his closet drawers and going through choices of what he would like to put on. But beware do not tell him what to wear!

Charlie's first Warren Miller movie

This years' Warren Miller movie was appropriately named "Children of Winter". We got 2 tickets for the 6PM show at Park West. With Charlie in toe we thought we could get him excited about skiing since we are planning a ski trip in the new year and let him see some of the great scenes that only Warren's team can capture.

Well it turns out that the movie is just a bit too loud for Charlie. The music is great but too loud and even though the scenes are generally very cool to watch he just couldn't take it for long.

Eileen took him out to the front for a while as there was a foozball table out there. Now that he loved!

We left early from the movie which was a bit of a bummer but, again, with this high definition movies now they look totally amazing. Some great filming these guys do and they have the right type of MTV and discussion mix that make the movie unique and fun.

Well its the start of what we hope will be a long tradition for Charlie and maybe next year we'll stay for longer.

On a side note: it look like a skier died during the filming of this movie. I thought it was more of a recurring thing but it turns out this is the first one for a Warren Miller movie. I guess many of the movies I'd seen over the years the movies did tribute deaths of well known skiiers but none were deaths during the film of the movie like this guy Billy Poole.

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Cottonwood Canyon was near were I used to live while I lived in Utah.