Pictures, because my dissertation isn't going to write itself*

Two pictures of Charlie with his favorite things on earth, dogs.


This is where we wait for Ryan to come home. When Ryan gets out of his car, Charlie waves and laughs and sometimes says "Bye bye!!" and jumps up and down. "Bye bye" is like "aloha" for Charlie. Hello? Bye bye. Good bye? Bye bye. A truck passes the apartment window? Bye bye. A dog is on TV? Bye bye.


Minutes before this picture was taken he was sobbing for me into my aunt's shoulder (I was standing about two feet away. With my hand on his back.). He forgot all about how under-rested and clingy he was when my aunt brought this big dog down the stairs. Put me DOWN Mama! Adogadogadog! Bye bye!

*and apparently the only way out is straight ahead. whatever.