Category Archives: Karate

Karate awards/belt advancement

So, tonight was awesome and weird. Both Kaylee and Regan earned belt advancements. So happy for them!

It was SUPER weird not to have my girls cheer-leading with me. Kaylee was out there doing her karate thing for the first time and Vivi was at her house I’m sure in bed. So I was standing on the bench (I’m THAT Mom) in the back of the gym yelling/cheering all by my self and missing my girls.

Not doing the silent rodeo with two babies was nice though…. It was just a different karate night that the last two we’ve had for Regan.
IMG_3898It was SO crowded and pictures and video are both encouraged. Jon had to fight for a half way decent spot to get any shots of the kids. IMG_3905 IMG_3907She was SO loud. Loved it. She really like karate so much. She want’s to get her black belt and be a teacher.IMG_3910 IMG_3914Regan was off with the yellow belts and just clapping for his sister the whole time. He was super proud of her.IMG_3920 IMG_3922Poor dudes underwear kept sliding down. I couldn’t figure out what his wiggle deal was until he told me after.  The Yellow belts did demos of getting out of peoples clutches. Regan had his back to us the whole time facing his partner. He did so great though.IMG_3927Kaylee was super focused watching her brother. I don’t think she blinked once.IMG_3929Then  Sensei Cory had all the students sit in the belt rank/classes and the certificates/new belts were handed out.IMG_3953 IMG_3966We knew they had passed their testing, but I got super concerned when he was done calling all the yellow belt advancements up and started calling up the yellow with white stripes up. Kaylee has been practicing the last two semester with Regan at home for fun before starting this semester. She skipped a belt! I was surprised, but not as shocked as she was.IMG_3967I don’t know why, but she was trying so hard to have a serious look on her face. After the initial shock you could just see her holding in a grin.IMG_3970 IMG_3975 IMG_3978 IMG_3984Regan walked all the way from the back row past all the students like this. I was laughing SO hard. He REALLY wanted his new belt. Yellow with a black strip skipping several stripe colors! Guess all the sparring at home paid off. 😉IMG_3988 IMG_3992 IMG_3997 IMG_4000 IMG_4001 IMG_4007Trying to get a group shot at the end was madness. All the flashes all the cameras.IMG_4011 IMG_4019And then I wanted a real quick picture with them…. we ended up embracing the crazy since looking at the camera and smiling just wasn’t happening.IMG_4021But for their Daddy-O… looking and smiling at the same time. IMG_4025Then this happened. I don’t know if this is funny or gross. Regan’s face though. HAhahaha!IMG_4027A kind dude took this one of the four of us. So nice.IMG_4028And then we needed one with awesome  Sensei Cory. Kaylee will be starting activity days half way through spring semester and so Wednesday night karate doesn’t work anymore. Sadly that means we had to say goodbye to Sensei Cory.IMG_4029They will do karate Tuesday nights with a new Sensei. Not gonna lie. We are all SUPER bummed about it. We are so lucky that we got to have  Sensei Cory for the last three semesters. He is so great and the kids learned and blossomed so much in his class!

On to new adventures in karate next Tuesday.

Friends

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Sometimes we get to watch friends. Basically that means extra long play dates.  This time these friends were stuck with me for a couple hours while Kaylee and Regan were at karate.IMG_0831

They dived right into kid fun when they got home. Which was good because that meant I was done with my running countdown of when Kaylee and Regan would be getting home. I’m not as fun for my kids friends as they are. Hahahaha!IMG_0832

And much to our friends horror I don’t know how to work the wii. I should learn…..IMG_0833Also I have kids. So my house is usually messy. Because that’s just real life.

Karate 1sts

Kaylee lives in the dark place of worst case scenario. She gets it from me. It’s not great.
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All summer long she was making comments like, “If a kidnapper trys to take me I’m going to….” She had all sorts of game plans. IMG_9375

I finally asked her if she would like to take karate class this year. Her answer, “Ya. I think that would be best.” I had to bit my tounge to keep from laughing. But her face and tone… so funny. She hasn’t mentioned being kidnapped since she started karate class.IMG_9376 IMG_9377 IMG_9382Regan is just super excited that he is a couple of levels ahead of her. Not competitive at all that one…..