Obama drama

Noticeably absent from Obama's town hall meeting in Pendleton, Oregon? Toddlers.Although there were a few other cherubic babies and miscellaneous primary school students, Thing 1 and Thing 2 were representing the toddler population of future American voters on Sunday.

Now that we've returned from arduous journey (from the trek in the car and standing in line for tickets which was repeated today to get in to the talk) to only enjoy minutes of Obama's talk, I certainly understand why there weren't more kids.
We were really looking at this as a rare opportunity for all of us to experience history. In the end, we were part of history, at least for Obama's stop in Pendleton.
Thing 1 got booted from the Pendleton Convention Center for crying hysterically...by Secret Service, a deputy and the rally organizer. In our own defense, he was crying in the hallway since we promptly removed him when he started crying loudly, just before Obama took to the mic.
It seems he's got a lot of fears these days and today it was being in a confined area on the bleachers and surrounded by loud clapping and cheering.
I got to stay in my seat with Thing 2 until she woke up and started crying too. Luckily, it was enough to hear 10 minutes of Obama's talk. I'm sure we weren't the crowd favorite, but I'm still glad we went. We'll never see our fellow cheerleaders again and we can say we were there.

Update: I was concerned enough about Thing 1's increasingly fears about noises that I chatted with my mama guru, aka best friend and mother of three. She sent me this link: http://askville.amazon.com/child-scared-loud-puppets-make-noise/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=4532857