Real Race

Put it in the baby book: Jacob finally saw his first "real race." Some race that was not the Daytona 500 was on Saturday, and we put it on just to see what his reaction would be. He was enthralled. At first he just sat on the couch, excited. Then he moved to the floor and bounced around. Finally, he was almost nose-to-screen on the TV. I think he wanted to be IN the race himself. We didn't save it, and he was upset later when he wanted to watch the"real race." (As opposed to the racing in the movie Cars) So to make it up to him, we recorded part of Daytona on Sunday. He took his nap during a good chunk of the race, and we made sure he saw the end of it later on. It went on for so long, Tom and I actually wanted to see the end too.

Jacob was pointing out all the numbers and colors of the cars. He even recognized some logos (uh oh, the advertisers have him already!). He knew Oreos and M&Ms.

He also pointed out cars that look like the Cars movie characters, cheered for crashes, and watched for the different color flags. He learned how to watch racing pretty quickly!