Livie & Mitt

As all of you political junkies know, the GOP primary was in Maine this last week. On Friday night, we took the girls to Mitt Romney's town hall meeting in Portland, ME. Livie wasn't very excited about going.

After Mitt spoke, I worked my way through the crowds and Secret Service to get fairly close to Mitt. I held Livie up over two rows of people and told her to "shake that man's hand." Mitt saw me holding Livie over the crowd and reached out to shake Livie's hand. As Livie does whenever she shakes anyone's hand, she proclaimed, "It's nice to see you!" I think this reaction from a 3-year old suprised Mitt. He got a big grin on his face and replied, "It's nice to you see you, Sweetie!"

When we got home that night, the local news had a great shot of Livie on the news. (Unfortunately, they didn't catch her shaking his hand.)

The "fun" for the girls didn't stop. We took them to our first-ever caucus on Saturday morning. Livie was very bored during most of the caucus, but she was very happy that "Mitt Romney" won. She told several people at church today that she shook hands with "Mitt Romney" and that he told her, "It's nice to see you, Sweetie!"

Here's hoping that Livie can someday tell people that she shook hands with "President Romney!"

We haven't posted for a long time. January was a big month. We had a very fun trip to Disney World and celebrated Livie's 3rd birthday. We need to post some of our favorite photos from the trip and her birthday.