[For those of you new to me and my blog, Olivia is my cousin's five-year-old daughter/ love of my life. She continually enlightens me with her philosophies.]

It’s seems Obama’s election has had an effect on everyone, old and young. If you had a chance ot speak to President Obama, what would you say? Did you ever think about it? Last week, when he gave his first address to the nation as  president Olivia did. She decided to strike up a conversation on politics in an effort to avoid getting put to bed. However, it wasn’t his economic reform or healthcare policies that caught her attention. It was instead, his fashion sense. To stall Olivia sat upright in the bed and blurted out:

“Is that Obama?”
Yes it is.
“He is the president???”
Yup.
“I really like his tie.  I sure wish I could tell him that.” she exclaimed

Hey, in Olivia’s defense, it did slightly resemble a candy cane with it’s red and white stripes (we all know how Olivia feels about anything related to Christmas). Not sure how long this lil strategy will work but it was a valiant attempt and putting off bedtime.

Besides being politically savvy, Olivia is also quite the geography maven. When she saw the Dora commercial announcing her live show she noticed there was no listing for Florida anywhere. Apalled, she immediately starting plotting another way to see her fave cartoon personality. There was a listing however, for NY she noticed. That’s all she needed.

"Mami, there is no show for Dora in Florida. So I am going to go to New York to see Avani and then go see Dora Live. Cause Avani lives in NY. ok?”

Well duh, why didn’t anyone else think of that, suchs a simple solution. I give ger kudos for being willing to travel across the country for a show. But before that happens I was given strict orders to ask Nickolodeon why they wouldn’t have a Dora show in Florida and report back lol.