This is one dance party 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin will never forget. #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/CAPi3heOMT 
 
 Some people wait a lifetime! A 106-year-old woman named Virginia McLaurin danced with joy while meeting President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle this weekend in the White House. 
 
 A sweet video from the encounter shows McLaurin vivaciously walking into the room to meet with the couple. She then squeals and laughs with delight. "It's an honor, it's an honor," she tells President Obama, who then brings over his grinning wife. 
 
 
 
 "She's 106!” the president proclaims of his adorable guest. 
 
 
 
 "No, you are not!" yells Michelle, who gives McLaurin a hug and holds her hand affectionately. "Oh, my goodness! I want to be like you when I grow up." 
 
 The Obamas then dance with her in the middle of the Blue Room, and the three roar with laughter. "I thought I would never live to get in the White House," says McLaurin, who was there for Black History Month. "And I tell you. I am so happy: A black president." 
 
 
 
 Watch the sweet video above. 
 
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 Over the past five years, Americans have produced and signed nearly 5,000 petitions through the White House’s “We the People” site. How could we ever forget the effort to get the Obama administration on board with building a Death Star? Some, like that one and a petition to deport Justin Bieber, resulted only in conversation. But others made an impact. 
 
 The Pew Research Center analyzed the petitions in a recent report. They ranged from serious, like an effort to ban gay conversion therapy at a state level that led the president in 2015 to support states' bans, to playful. A request for Obama to appear on a previously unvisited talk show, for example, prompted him to appear on “Real Time with Bill Maher” in January 2016. 
 
 In 2015, 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin requested a meeting with the first black president, something she never thought she’d live to see. Her petition garnered only 19 signatures. But it nonetheless resulted in one of first couple's most memorable meetings, this dance party: 
 
 What's the secret to still dancing at 106? Watch 106-year-old Virginia McLaurin fulfill her dream of visiting the White House and meeting President Obama. #BlackHistoryMonth Posted by The Obama White House on Sunday, February 21, 2016
– Even 106-year-olds dance for joy. Need proof? You've got it thanks to a White House video shared on Twitter on Sunday. It shows centenarian Virginia McLaurin busting a move while meeting President and Michelle Obama at the White House for Black History Month, reports Us Weekly. "It's an honor, it's an honor," she told the president, before rushing across the Blue Room to meet Michelle Obama, forcing the president to tell her to "slow down." "I want to be like you when I grow up," the first lady joked to McLaurin, before joining her for an impromtu dance party. The first lady held McLaurin's hand while the president held her cane.