Porter's Obama Obsession

My father-in-law, a very conservative Republican, will be surprised to hear this, but Porter, our 4-year old, has become somewhat obsessed with Obama.  It started when he was seeing his picture in the newspaper everyday and started asking me, "Who is that brown man?".  I explained that he was our new President.  Part of Porter's interest may be because he has started noticing the different skin colors that people have, who knows. 

A few weeks ago, I went into Porter's room and he was taping pictures up on his wall.  They were pictures of Obama from the newspaper, that he had cut out himself.  Hilarious!  I asked what he was doing and he said he was hanging up pictures of the prophet!  Yikes!  I explained the difference between the two, but since we do call President Monson, President, I could understand his confusion.  So yesterday the newspaper came with Obama's 100 days and approval rating and such on the front page with lots of pictures.  Porter saw it and said, "Wow, I gotta cut these out!".

Neither Dave or I consider ourselves Democrats, but we do find this obsession amusing.  I'll have to post some pics of Porter's "wallpaper".

WE DID IT!!!

Wahoo!!! We finally bought our tickets to Italy! So Milan, Venice, Rome...here we come! I have been checking airfare for months and months AND stalling because we didn't know if we should take the boys or find an extremely kind relative to take them in... One of my friends said that asking someone to watch your kids for an extended period of time, is like asking someone for their kidney. Ha, ha, but definitely a true comparison. I think that having them on an airplane for 20 hours may be worse than giving someone my kidney. My boys are great, but they are 2 and 4 years old AND 13 days is a long time. Alelujah...Dave's sister graciously accepted the challenge, even with her additional 4 children.

We will be spending half of our time around Milan, visiting Dave's parents, and we are planning to also visit Rome and Venice. If anyone has ideas of great places to stay, things to see or general Italy traveling tips, I would love to hear them! Ciao!!