going voting

So Tuesday morning I told the girls that later we were I had to go vote. Whitney asked if she could come with me and I said "sure, we're all going." Several times throughout the morning when we talked about what else we were doing that day, Whitney said "mom I wanna go voting with you." and I was like "of course" but I kept thinking it was a little odd that she was so concerned about not being left behind.

So we go to the polling place, I vote while the girls play on some chairs, a lady gives them candy, we're all happy. We go to leave and Whitney starts whining "I wanted to go voting mom" and I'm like "sorry, you just got to come with me, you can vote when your 18." She starts whining more and getting frustrated so I tried to explain "all I did was push some buttons, it wasn't that exciting, do you want my sticker?" But now she's crying and refusing to leave, fortunately by now we were in the entry area separated from the rest of the building as she keeps repeating insistently "I want to go voting!" Katelyn and I left her inside and tried the "walk away and pretend like you're leaving" trick to no avail. Halfway to the car we decide to go back and get her and just carry her screaming out to the car, when a nice old lady who looked very concerned and probably thought I was a terrible mother opens the door and Whitney comes running out crying for me. It was then that it hit me- she thought we were going BOATING. Boating, not Voting. No wonder she was so excited about it! Poor girl. I tried to explain that we were not at a lake and it's too cold and Grandpa's in Japan and Uncle Kurtis is in Idaho so there's no one to drive the boat.... obviously she was beyond reason at that point and cried for the next 10 minutes because she didn't get to go "voting". And because I made her get buckled in her car seat.

Pretty sad and funny mistake for a cute 2-year-old!