Election 2012 - Wicked Cool Baby Style

Now that the election is over, we can go back to life without all the political ads. Whether you’re Republican or Democrat, the months leading up to Nov 6 are taxing on everyone (pun intended). Even though the littlest “constituents” don’t really know what’s going on and they won’t be able to vote for years, judging from their little faces, they were OVER it!


Incidentally, the practice of “baby kissing” is believed to have started back in the time of Andrew Jackson and has survived, even flourished, through elections as a time honored way to get out the vote and gain public (women’s especially) support trying to get out a positive image. Today, it’s almost a superstition although there’s no case as to whether it helps or hinders.

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis act out this humorous version of the cliché in this scene from a recent movie “The Campaign”, http://youtu.be/QKbziodzimo

As for Obama and Romney, they were both reported as being fairly ill-at-ease while holding infants and likely to hand the child back like “a grenade with the pin pulled out”.

So how about you? Does kissing babies make the candidates any more appealing or charismatic to you?

The Wonder of Childhood

Things that make you go, hmmmm. Who knows where we got all our crazy notions as kids? Some came from parents, family and siblings teasing us and some came from misunderstandings in language and/or explanations. But, sometimes we just got a funny idea about how things worked in our little world all on our own. Everyone remembers something they believed in childhood that was funny or crazy.
For me, I believed the Moon followed me. Yup, all those long drives at night we'd take coming home from
somewhere and I'd be in the back seat, moon hanging low in the sky out the window. Staring at the Moon, it appeared it was moving just as fast as we were as the scenery whizzed past, keeping up with me....until we pulled into the driveway where it would stop and stay outside our house all night. It always made me feel
special.

Sometimes if you ask your kids about things and really listen, you can get the cutest answers; no harm before you explain how it really works, right? Great fodder for their baby books. You'll love sharing discussions with your kids and I'm sure you'll reminisce about things you believed. That's the wonder of childhood.

Your turn:  What did you believe when you were young?

Kids Say the Darndest Things - Funny or not!

That’s so true that they made a TV show out of it back in the 60’s. Art Linkletter did it first but Cosby did it later (and better IMHO) And while you never dream that the kids are even listening or paying attention sometimes, you find out VERY FAST that they, in fact, are. Seems they can multi-task even when you think they’re singing and playing with their building blocks in the next room.

Some hilarious (and not so hilarious) examples: My nephew accompanies Grandpa into the rest room while the rest of the family and lot of other people mill around in the gift shop while on vacation. Upon exiting the restroom, he announces, “Grandpa farted really loud!”

Upon returning from a fishing trip, a friend of mine had a cooler of fish they had caught and was showing off the fish to the guys in the garage. Repeating something he’d just heard out in the garage, the 3 yr old comes running into the kitchen and yells, “Come on Grandma! Come see the big f*ckin’ fish!”

If you’re not careful, they’re at school telling teachers all sorts of things they heard (or witnessed) at home. Embarrassing things like your weight or something you said under your breath about your MIL; or worse, they’re telling the MIL.

So I think it’s a good idea to fib a little, right? When jr. asks how old you are, tell him 27 even if you’re 35. If your 4 yr old asks what size pants you have when you’re out shopping or why you’re wearing spanx, for God’s sake, don’t use the word fat or overweight, just say something like “Mommy is small size” or “Because Mommy is slim and trim”.

If you wanna see a few clips from Linkletter’s show: http://tinyurl.com/7t2lwsr

In the mean time, tell us a funny one about your kids! Come on, I know you have one! Share, please!