Barack My World

Politics and little kids just don't mix.

Last night Mike and I were desperately trying to listen to Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The problem? It was aired during what is typically "Transformer Time" in the Moore household. After Sully goes to bed, Mike and Keats watch an episode of Transformers. So while Keats was ready to listen to the Decepticons' latest ploy to take over the World and how Optimus Prime and Bumblebee (Keaton's newest hero) would foil the evil plan, Mike and I were trying to listen to the musings of our newest hero.

Alas, it was not to be. ('bee? lol)

Keaton was crying out "My show!" and Mike and I were trying to explain that it was time for our own show....asking him to please be quiet and wait five minutes. Keaton just got louder, yelling "MY SHOW! MY SHOW!" which, of course, just made his parents mad. He was told that if he said one more word he would go up to his room for the rest of the night.

And then, you might ask since you're so very intrigued by where the heck this conversation is going, what happened?

Baby Brother happened, that's what. Sully decides to use this most inopportune time to start yelling "MY SHOW!" Which, naturally, made his parents proud (he'd never said it before) and we were giddy with how cute it sounded...."show" was closer to "sew" which made it that much cuter...

...until we realized that this was one of those moments where we were getting mad at Keats for saying something and then thinking the very same statement was cute when Sully said it. So we dimmed our enthusiasm and told Sully "No!" and "Quiet!" just like we'd said to Keats.

Why would anyone ever think that parenting is easy? Or that the rules are black & white and that your perfectly-behaved children would always be able to understand "Oh, I see, it's cute when he says it because he's learning to talk."

(---Insert sarcastic snort here---)

So...we finally get both boys quiet just in time to hear the things we didn't want to hear: quotes from scripture and the blessings to us as individuals and to our country in general. Blah. And, worse, it was followed by country music. Lol. I realize these things must all be covered so that every potential voter hears something that makes them connect with the Presidential Hopeful but I don't respect it just the same.

But I do respect Barack Obama and I just happen to LOVE Joe Biden so I will turn a deaf ear to the parts of their speeches, of their lives, that I don't agree with and will simply hope that these are the two men who will lead us far from where we are today.

Oh, and if they could explain to Keats that one day he will be proud to hear that when he was four he watched Barack Obama on TV, that would be swell.

Because unless the pundits dress up in Optimus Prime and Bumblebee costumes, Keaton simply wants nothing to do with politics.