Last night when I put Luke to bed, I suggested we say a special prayer for Obama. I told him tomorrow we’d be electing a new president of the United States. As if I were telling him something he didn’t already know, he responded, “Yes, I know. But you have to be 18.”

Today when I dropped him off, he showed me the ballot box they’d made at school.

At lunch, he brought home his ballot. He voted Obama.

So maybe children really do listen to what we say.