A hoodie is an important article of clothing in the Bender household. Most days finds me in one of two hoodies -- one an homage to Halifax, the other says Burton Trucking -- the only trucking company capable of handling a supernatural battle in Chinatown.

Kate regularly dons her hoodie with the words Benderphone across the zipper -- an acknowledgment of The Boston Globe's decision to print her letter to the editor, inexplicably with the word phone attached to our last name. It was funny, but you may have had to be there. It is how my wife is known in the North End though, ahhh...Mrs. Benderphone, so nice to see you.

As such, we were determined to get the baby in a hoodie as soon as possible. For now, she is in a neutral hoodie -- emblematic of her lack of a favorite movie or notable letter to the editor. She has sent in several screeds to the Kansas City Star -- but they have wisely chosen not to print them, seeing as they are the incoherent babble of a baby which is likely the same thing as libel.

So, for now, Charlotte will have to be content with a sloganless hoodie and a passing resemblance to Elliott in E.T.