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He Earned His Orange Belt

Belt Graduation
Photo-A-Day #4372

Today was Andrew’s graduation to the orange belt in Karate. He’s been taking Karate since August. This was his first big graduation. The last graduation was held at the karate studio and was a smaller event. Today there were many more kids and families at the graduation ceremony. There were demonstrations from the higher ranking kids and what they could do was pretty incredible.

In this ceremony Allison did the parent part. I like how they do this. One parent sits with the child and gives them their belt. The child gives the parent a small ribbon the color of their new rank in a symbol that earning the rank requires a team and not just a single child. After the child receives a rank or stripe or anything new they go to their parents and give them hugs and thank them for helping them with their achievement.

With Mom

Andrew is now going to be one of the highest ranking kids in the group of white, yellow and orange belts. Sensei took him aside the other day and told him that he will be moving up and when he does he will have to be a leader and an example to the younger kids. I think that this is going to be really good for him.

Tonight we were having dinner, Andrew and Eva had been watching Go Noodle during the day and they learned about beatboxing. Because of that we had some silly moments and I was able to pull an April Fool’s joke on Eva. I talk about it in today’s video.

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Mother Nature’s Late April Fools Joke

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Mother Natures Late April Fools Joke
Photo-A-Day #4010

Nothing like driving home after a 12 hour shift with snowflakes the size of silver dollar pancakes… in April! Mother Nature went and played her April Fool’s joke two days late. Driving home in these conditions was not fun. The highway was down to one lane because there were no plows and we creeped and crawled along. Allison said that our house had very little snow. And one town over there was a ton of snow. But it all melted by the time I woke up that I didn’t have to shovel.

I was going to try and do a Star Wars thing today but ran out of time. I have one more day to put up my Star Wars party post to go along with the box that I received. But that will be tomorrow.

Today I took out a big bag of hot wheels cars that I had for both Star Wars and Marvel. I emptied that out and put them into some car cases, which are actually sewing spool cases. I had a couple that I had not yet opened so I picked two for today. Those were a Venom character car and a Wolverine character inspired car. You can see what the difference is in the video below.