Ah those "L"s. Gwen has recently discovered, even though there has been significant help from Trevor, that she is not saying her l's correctly. And now she takes every opportunity to say luh-luh-luh ladybug, or whatever word has an L in it. She stops herself all the time to re-state what the word is correctly. She often gets a little tongue tied by saying it, but she corrects herself. I guess her mind decided it was time. It is pretty cute, although I think it is one of the last toddler-like things she has been doing. This girl doesn't throw temper tantrums, she is dry through the night, she draws, paints, plays board games, can even point out a dance classmate when we see her at one of Trevor's hockey games. She may not remember names as well as Trevor had at her age, but I like the she is so friendly and plays just like a girl often does with girls that are almost two years older than her.
It turned into a big weekend for Trevor that I didn't really expect. After last November, I had thought that Nascar was sort of on the downslide. Perhaps because it does conflict with baseball for most of the year. Nascar started this weekend and goes all the way until November. Baseball starts the end of April, and baseball, I believe will always be Trevor's true passion. Regardless, something this year has returned the interest of Nascar, even before the Daytona 500. He remembers everything that goes into it, all the drivers and the smaller model cars he has. He has asked today three different times how he wishes that he had the 2011 Nascar schedule magnet that we have had for the past two years. We have gotten it as part of buying the new car for the year. Perhaps it will be something that he spends his money on.
So after Trevor's hockey practice this afternoon, he was finally able to watch a little of the race today. There were only a handful of the names racing across the screen that he did not immediately recognize. He was remembering the previous numbers for which some of the drivers have changed from in past years. And he even remarked at how at the very start of his interest in Nascar was when he decided that the Budweiser #8 car he decided was driven by Nick Jr. I think that had something to do with him watching Nickelodeon Junior channel a lot, and the driver was Dale Earnhart Jr. at the time. But since then, Dale has switched to #88 and Trevor knows that number as the car that Dale drives. And still has the #8 Budweiser car that he calls Nick Jr.
Fast forward to the end of the Daytona 500, which we were lucky enough to catch after surviving the drive to my parents house in yet another blizzard this year. And wouldn't you know that the winner of the race this year is a rookie. He is a 20 year old kid for crying out loud, and beat the previous youngest winner by 5 years. His name is Trevor Baynes. When I first flipped on the race, Trevor of course picked up on the name right away. And when he won the race, I could see that his love was back. Hopefully Nascar will make this kid's car quick and put it in stores so we can get it. I guess only time will tell. In the mean time there are a few drivers that switched cars again this year. And we still have another two months before baseball begins. Boogity, boogity, boogity, lets go racing, boys!
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