Boston ? Moments after vice presidential candidate John Edwards delivered the biggest speech of his life, his 4-year-old son wanted to make a few remarks.

“I have something to say,” Jack announced after his father brought a full house to its feet at the Democratic convention.

“OK, tell me what it is,” said his mother, Elizabeth Edwards, after the family left the stage.

“No, no, I need a microphone,” Jack insisted. “It will only take a minute.”

“Everybody wants their moment, right?” Elizabeth Edwards said Thursday as she recounted the family moment.

The morning after the Edwards family made its prime-time appearance, the vice presidential nominee and his wife rallied the party faithful and related the challenges of tending to small children.

John Edwards breezed into a breakfast where delegates from his home state were waiting patiently for the tardy senator.

“I hope y’all got more sleep last night than I did,” he said. “I didn’t find out until I got back to the room that my wife had a made a deal with Emma Claire and Jack that they could sleep in the bed with me. It was a long night.”