A big day

Yesterday turned out to be quite a big day. We decided to go to Laguna Seca down near Monterey to watch the Grand-Am sportscar races. This event is usually lightly-attended so we expected a relaxed, relatively cheap day at the racetrack. It would be good practice for when we go to the much more chaotic motorcycle Grand Prix race in July - K would see what it is like to be pregnant at the races.


This is exactly how it all worked out. It was a lovely day, and we exposed the baby to the sounds of racing cars. Get used to it, kid! When my mother was pregnant with me, she had gone to see the Cork International Rally with my dad, which like any spectating at a rally event involves hiking out into the forest to catch the cars race through the stages. This might have been instrumental in making me into such a petrolhead, so K and I are trying the same method for this baby.


So that was "big thing #1".

"Big thing #2" was the fact that we decided to spend the two-hour drive down (and back) going through our list of names. We had about 50 for each gender, so we came up with a rating system and talked our way down the list. It was great fun, and at the end of it we had about ten names for each. Next step would be to cross check them on the Social Security website to make sure they're not too popular (we really don't want our child to have a popular name), and then we can start to sit with the names for a while.

Finally, as we sat on the couch last night, the baby was once again active and K once again tried to have me feel the movement. So far I hadn't been able to feel anything. Last night I did. It was very small, but it was there. What a moment! My first physical connection with my child! Wow. That was "big thing #3".