Katie's First Presidential Election

As I posted earlier today, Katie was excited about going to the voting place. I told her Momma was going to vote and Dada was going to vote. Katie asked, "Where-ick vote?" I had to explain that dogs don't get to vote.

Last week I had researched all of the candidates and proposals that were going to be on our ballot. Rick and I talked about our options and were of the same opinion. I then compiled our decisions in an Excel sheet that we took to the voting place. Rick and I were well prepared so we were able to vote quickly and feel confident in our choices. We were pretty adamant about not voting for those incumbents who voted for the H.R. 1424, commonly known as the Screw-The Tax-Paying-Average-American-and-Reward-The-Financial-Industry-For-Their-Bad-Decisions Plan.

We ended up voting at noon because Rick had so many things to do for work. Luckily our precinct is small. When we got to our voting place there were two machines open, so Rick and I got to vote at the same time. A cowboy-hatted Katie sat quietly at a table with Baby while we did and I am so proud of her. I am also excited for her because it is her first Presidential election. However, they didn't hand out "I Voted" stickers and I had wanted to put one in Katie's Box of Memories.

One of Katie's new developments is that she will tell you that she is "Two" when you ask her how old she is. However, when you ask how old she will be next year, she tells you "Four." Apparently the age of three holds no charm for her. She prefers to only count to two and when she runs out of those numbers she starts all over again. For example if she has four pieces of candy corn, she has "One, two, one two."