political preschool

I like to listen to NPR while I do kitchen tasks. Usually I turn off the radio once the kids get up, but sometimes I listen at other times throughout the day, or I accidentally leave it on while I'm in the shower, and the kids hear and interpret freely. When the election frenzy was at it's height, they were quite interested, and would always ask, "Is this voting again!?" They all had their own opinions on the candidates, based on random information. Josiah's favorites were chosen by the sounds of their names. He even renamed his stuffed horse "Dino Rossi" (since been changed to Rough-Tough) and a leopard "Baracka Bama." Anyway, so the political chatter has mostly died down, but Naomi had an NPR session yesterday, and was brimming with information that she just had to share...

Naomi: "Guess what I heard on the radio today? Barack Obama is going to create THREE TRILLION new jobs!" (I think she got the jobs number confused with the national debt.)

Josiah: "Whoa. That's a lot. How is he going to do that anyway?"

Eva: "Yeah, and what would they be? He'll say like, 'You- replace all the dead batteries.' "

Naomi: "Yeah, and 'You- change all the diapers....' (long pause) Wow. That's only two that we can thing of. He's gonna have a lotta sittin' and thinkin'! Can you believe- in just ten days Barack Obama is going to be president! And in just nine days, mom is going to be thirty-two!! And that means in eleven days, I'm going to be seven!!"

Josiah: "Wait, so did you hear ALL of that on the radio?"