Believe it or not

I thought Trevor's interest in Nascar was waning after last year. We didn't watch nearly as many races as we did last year. I figured that he found other interests, namely baseball and watching the Twins and those games were more interesting than watching cars go in an oval for 500 miles or so.

Perhaps it is the fact that hockey is getting long, and baseball isn't here really, until late April. Now that football is done, there is another reason to look for something to do. So here comes Nascar again. Trevor asked me to go to the Nascar website to look up all the photographs of the drivers. In prior years he had a hard time understanding that you weren't actually cheering for a car, but the driver of the car. So he's interested in seeing all of the driver's faces that he knows by name. Clint Boyer, Kevin Harvick, Mark Martin, Carl Edwards, Tony Stewart, Kyle Bush, Kurt Bush, along with the more well known Jeff Gordon, Jimmy Johnson, and "Dale Heart Junior".

The Nascar website lists the drivers next to their numbers on one of the pages. Trevor couldn't do many of them, because he associates the colorful cars with names, not necessarily the number on the car. But if you go to the drivers page, then you could see the pictures of the car.

Needless to say, he's been setting up a few Nascar races over the past two weeks or so. Oh, and a Nascar book that he received over his birthday, we started to read. He learned about the crash that "Dale Heart Senior" died at. He was NOT happy to hear that one. He actually said that he doesn't want to drive Nascars anymore. I'm not sure I handled it correctly, but I explained to him that they have made the cars a lot safer since that crash, and that different people die every day doing different things. It is more important to do what you love than be scared you are going to die doing something. I know he has a need to feel protected right now, which we are always talking about and working towards, but I also don't want to overprotect him either. It's another one of those fine lines.

So, it looks like we may be checking out Nascar for a while, at least until baseball season starts. It sure would be nice to be able to be warm outside so we could play baseball.