Though we all wanted to watch the inauguration coverage on Tuesday it didn’t seem to work. There were doctor’s appointments to attend, a pool guy to wait for and then I got really sick. Luckily, we’d recorded the coverage.

Wednesday morning when I woke up, my Mom told me that Brenden had been saying Barack Obama all morning and he started to say it again. They hadn’t talked about him or anything. Brenden was just saying it. We started watching while Brenden took his nap, but he woke up early and was watching some with us. He said, no Barack Obama. But when we were done watching he wanted “Barack Obama again.”

Last night before bed we were all sitting in the office watching my screen saver display all our pictures. A picture of the Washington Monument appeared and Brenden said, “Barack Obama.” We were all amazed that he recognized it as the same place without all the people and the flags there.

My Mom semi-jokingly told Brenden yesterday that he was driving her crazy and his response was “driving McDonalds.” I’m not sure if he seriously wanted her to take him there or if he knew that he was making a joke, but once he found out it was funny, he has made it into a joke. And it’s pretty funny.

He has two other phrases that I really like right now. One is “I can’t sleep.” Which is said anytime sleep is mentioned. The other is, “I can’t like it.” He means he doesn’t like it, but it sure is cute!