A couple weeks ago we went and got our Obama yard sign. This was a big deal for K & O since they have become obsessed with looking for Obama signs on the side of the road when we drive anywhere. They ignore the McCain signs but whenever they spot an Obama sign (which is about every-0ther-sign around here) they scream out “Barack-O! BarackO! BarackO!!!” jumping up and down in their carseats and pointing and chanting at the tops of their lungs. I don’t know how they came up with “BarackO” but I think it is absolutely cute as can be. Their car-riding back-seat “Baracko”-shouting would make a great ad for the Obama campaign… that’s for sure. They seem to kind of ‘get it’ (as much as a four year old can) that this guy might be our next president — and that their parents want him to be. And they definitely get it that this guy “has brown skin like us!” I am so glad that this is happening in their life at such a young impressionable age. Sure, there will be backlash and negative ramifications of all this. But still… whenever I hear my boys shouting out “BarackO!”… I am vividly reminded of the impact and the long-term ripple-effect of this election for beautiful brown-skin kids like Kyle and Owen. They probably won’t remember any of this, but I’m going to try to remember to at least be sure they see the photo above someday.