Inauguration

I'm not much into politics, but peer pressure and curiousity sent me to the TV this afternoon to watch President Obama take the Oath of Office.  We missed all the preliminaries, but started watching right before the actual "swearing in".  We continued to watch through the speech - Nicolas lost interest first.  After the speech, I got up to begin lunch, Alex stayed watching.   I walked back through the living room during the benediction, and this is what I saw:

 

 

I had to take the picture, even though I knew he would stop praying when he saw the flash.  I wanted to capture this moment  - for him as much as for me - so he has a lasting memory of this date.