Campaign Coverage Nov. 1st 2004 (From Wonkette.com)

<<7:34 NBC. The Today Show: Head vs. Skull:
White House Communications Deputy Tucker Eskew and James Carville.

Carville: "The 41% of people who think the country's going in the right direction are the dumbest people in America."
Eskew: Kerry took a poll to figure out what he thinks about Osama Bin Laden
Carville: RNC feels "the noose of history tightening around their necks"

Carville jams in 40% more words than Eskew; Eskew looks 40% less crazy than Carville. >>

Here I am with my hubby at 8am with our voting stickers--the badge of democracy! (excuse the bed head, love the Flogging Molly jacket). 

Exercising Our Rights

We went to vote today before 8 am and I decided to take Addie (better instill civic responsibility early, right?). On the way down the stairs (out of the blue mind you--I haven't tried to politicize my kid) she said, "Mom, Bush loves me. George Bush will take care of me." WHAT!?! Even I wouldn't have taught her that! I might have said George Bush will protect us or George Bush believes in freedom, but nothing personal like that. What a cutie. She gave the lady who gave us the "I Voted" sticker a sucker.

At dinner, we ate Short ribs and Bush's baked beans, just like we did in 2000, and bread and butter. Addie stuck her elbow into her butter and cried, "Oh my gosh! Hey, can somebody lick this for me?" Oh, man, that was a funny one.

Ad had a late nap, so it's just me-n-her, coloring a map of the US with red and blue pencils, happy with all of Montana's election results.

Rock on...

PS: The kids from Floggin Molly emailed me today--they're so fun. Turns out "Ellen" is "Helen" so I change it in the entry.

Addie Funnies

Addie is starting to have a really active imagination and it's so much fun. I thought I'd better write some of her funnies down, even though some of these are "old" ones.

When I taught her to sing "You Are My Sunshine" last year, she would always say, "Oh, I sorry mom--here's your sunshine!" at the end. It took me a while to realize she was reacting to the last line, "Please don't take my sunshine away." She would pretend to gather up something from mid-air and hand it to me--here's you sunshine.

She is learning about death and the permanence of our family, too. She started saying, "I want a new mommy," when I reprimanded her and I told her, "You only get one mommy, so you'd better be nice to me!" Now she has translated that to Heidi.

She and Heidi were playing on the bed, just giggling and being silly, and Addie said, "Mom, I don't want my Heidi to get died. We have to take care of her and be nice to her."

I tried not to giggle and I said, "Yes, Honey. We have to take care of sister because she's a special part of our famiy, just like you."

"Yeah...we can't get a new Heidi. There is only one Heidi so we have to take care of her."

Yeah. Something like that.

I'm off to VOTE! Yeeeehaw!

Even mommy tried out the hillbilly teeth--thank heaven for dentistry and preventative hygeine! 

Heidi's been teething and we were just SHOCKED to see the fruits of her labors!

MORE FUNNY FACES for Cousin Brent--UH-OH! Addie ate too much Candy! At the Halloween carnival Fishing Pond, Addie scored some hillbilly teeth and we had lots of fun with them.... 

Cousin Danny the monkey with Addie-fly. 

Heidi looks soooo scary (yeah, right) in her Lion suit! Heidilion. 

Trick or Treat! It's an Addie-Fly!

Silly Melins at the Halloween party--Shrek, Lion, Bob the Builder, and a Butterfly