We had an informal election results watching “party” with Kate, Adam and Abigail at our house last night. Of course they were gone and Caleb in bed before they called the presidential election, but living in mountain time zone, we were able to watch Obama’s speech live at 10pm.
The kids were more interested in other things, of course. Any time Uncle Adam is around, Caleb comes up with some game that involves climbing and/or jumping on Adam. Abigail took advantage of her new mobility to check out the toy kitchen, and Anneke immediately took to smiling and talking to Aunt Kate as usual.
That is Kate’s hair she is playing with in the picture.
Living in Colorado, we certainly had plenty of political ads to put up with these last few months and Caleb easily learned the names of the presidential candidates (although he would frequently mix them up). We got a fair number of people coming to our door, and Caleb had a hard time understanding that just because someone comes to the door, does not mean we invite them in to see his room, or listen to him sing. He did do a little song and dance for one person, but was often upset after they left that he didn’t get more attention out of the deal.
We watched the Obama “infomercial” last week. Caleb watched part of it with us and I explained that Obama was talking about how he wanted to be president. At one point when they showed a scene of a large crowd, Caleb was clearly impressed and said “is he president for all those people?”
A couple of weeks ago, Dan and I were filling out our mail-in ballots and Caleb decided he wanted to vote too. He proceded to make his own ballot, complete with little circles next to the words, which he then filled in with crayon. He declared that he was voting for Barack Obama–to be fair, he did the same thing and “voted” for John McCain the next night.
So, when the presidential election results came in last night, Dan and I were watching the coverage together live. And, as I mentioned, we got to watch the speeches live as well. Pretty amazing stuff. We let Anneke watch the TV with us, which we usually try to avoid, and she did so happily, allowing us to enjoy watching too. When we told Caleb the results the next day, he was more interested that Barack Obama was a dad (we saw pictures of him with his kids) than anything else. I explained that they would all be moving to the White House, but decided against mentioning that they would be getting a puppy…
