Enviro-Diaper Hits The Swaggerty Household

While this contraption is better than Elizabeth's proposal for cloth diapers with Audrey, I am still not in favor of either. I'm all for recycling and conserving, but I have to admit I'm doing my best to draw the line with diapers. Sure we may be filling the landfill, but my take is we're also doing less laundry due to soiled cloth diapers and leaks, so in a sense we're conserving water. I'm not sure I'm going to win this argument, but I'll try.

Ben, Obama, Obama, Ben

While you cannot see it in this photo, Ben is sporting his My Mama's for Obama shirt while watching Senator Obama speak.

Doors for the event opened at 4pm, and we arrived shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, the event held 10,000 and we were 10,003. Not literally, but we were about to go through security when the fire marshal said no mas. We then made our way to the overflow area, and low and behold, Senator Obama came out and spoke with us first. While we didn't get to shake hands or get a great picture of Ben with Obama, we did get to see him and hear a short speech those inside did not get to hear. We also got to hear his other speech while Ben ran around with all the other kids outside the event.

We were bummed not to get to "see" both speeches, but overall it worked out better for us as a family.