yay!!

blue stripe... up next, orange belt testing and board breaking

fun weekend

Saturday: Joel took the boys to Target for DS games and to an afternoon movie. Craig, Jen and kiddos came over for game night and a sleepover.

Sunday: Grandma Connie and Grandpa Steve came up to watch Eli and Katelynn play basketball.

Eli is still in "sleepover mode".

Mister Noah

Here are some action pics of Mister Noah (everyone is called Mister xxxx except Master Chris) at tonight's tae-kwan-do practice.

Warming up with the splits (top middle left under the blue thing)

Flawlessly executing a jumping front kick

He has four stripes on his white belt and one stripe left to go for before he can do his orange belt test (which includes breaking a board). Pretty good for just a couple of months and starting out scared to talk to anyone!!

Noah with Master Chris and his favorite blackbelt team leader, Mister Matt (blond hair)

Here he is practicing his last stripe challenge, which is "pattern"--he has to memorize a series of 20 movements or steps and get them correct for his blue stripe.

We are sure proud of him!

best thing I've seen today

second graders roller skating

best thing I've heard today

"When I grow up, I would not like to be the janitor of a school." -Noah

sad day

Mom: "Noah, what book should I read tonight?"

Noah: "Um, I'll just read this one by myself."