Karate Action

Per Katie's request, I have more Karate pictures for you today. I finally remembered to take the camera in with me. They are getting the kids used to wearing their pads now so at the end of class everyone gets their gear on and they get to fight the instructor.



Here is Jayke getting his gloves on. For some reason, today there were a couple more kids in the class and others observing. Gavin, Isaiah, and Jaykeb are the three older boys so they did most of the fighting. They were calling themselves the Fantastic Four in this picture below.



Chase is the other little boy in the picture. He just came back from having a broken foot so he is a little afraid to jump in there with them and really go at it. Isaiah is in the blue helmet, Gavin in the full Karate uniform, Jayke in the white helmet, and Chase in the red. There was another little boy in there but he didn't want to wear the gear. I thought it was really cute when the three older boys were fighting how they had on red, white, and blue helmets. Hakim has to have a lot of patience to work with this crew. He gets down on the mat and lets them all beat the crap out of him. The kids really love him because he is fabulous with them.



As you can see, it was very hard to get pictures of Jayke where you could see his face. It wasn't like they were going to pose for me, but you can get the idea of what is like in there sometimes. They go through their blocks and kicks before they do all this fighting. They told me the other day that Jayke and Isaiah are going to move up soon. They have fitted him for his uniform and it has been ordered, size triple zero. He is going to look so cute, I can't wait!

Ki-Yah!

Day two at Karate went well! He got a free t-shirt which he hasn't taken off yet. It is the white and black one in the pictures below. I took some pictures of him practicing his moves at home tonight too. I didn't want to disrupt the class by taking pictures in there. I will eventually, just not yet.

Another Conversation with The Boy

I was cleaning the bathroom this morning...Yeah, I do that occasionally...when I had an interesting conversation with The Boy. It went sonmething like this...

Jayke(standing on his stool watching me clean the sink): What are you doing?

Me: I'm cleaning up Daddy's wiskers.

Jayke: Why? (His favorite word these days)

Me: Because Daddy gets them all over when he shaves.

Jayke: Why? (I don't here this word in my sleep yet, but I think I will soon)

Me: I don't know why he can't get them in the sink.

Jayke: Sometimes Daddy is a moron!

I think the boy is watching too much television. I promise he has not heard me say this. I know some of you don't believe me but I PROMISE! I even asked him where he heard that and he told me on the movie Cars. I told him how this was not a nice thing to say and NOT to say it to Daddy. All the while trying not to crack up. I have a hard time not laughing at the kid, he is a hoot!



I was going to save this news for another post but I'm too excited about it to wait a whole day. Jaykeb started Karate tonight! He was so excited. I called the place to get information and they said I could bring him in tonight and he could join the Tiny Tots class to see if he liked it and wanted to do it. I made the mistake of telling him about it early on in the day. I brought him in to the computer and showed him lots of pictures of kids doing Karate so he would know what it is. He also knew some what from watching Spongebob and Sandy doing it. He was all for it and the child drove me nuts all day about when we would be going.

I was a little nervous about taking him since he has never played any kind of sport before or been in anything like this. I explained to him over and over what he would be doing and that it was very important that he listen to the instructor and do what he is told. Mike met us there so we could both watch. I don't think the three of us have laughed so much in all our lives. These kids were too funny. The instructor was wonderful with them but the most impressive thing was Jayke's behavior and perfomance. Now I know everyone thinks I'm biased but honestly he was fantastic! He was the only child that sat and listened and did what he was told when he was told. He had a little trouble remembering his, "Yes, Sirs" but it is only his first day. He did a bunch of kicks and punches, rolled down a mat jumped up and did a kick, and walked down a balance beam jumping off then doing a kick. We were thrilled.

After the class we heard the instructor talking to the owner and the manager about how this was Jaykeb's first day and he did better than all the other kids. Mike and I just stood at the counter beaming with pride. They told me he would probably want to move up to the next level pretty quickly. That is when he will get the cute little uniform. You know I'm all about that. This will provide me with tons of pictures for the blog and the scrapbooks. So, Mondays and Wednesdays we now have Karate. We all three are very excited and happy about this, which doesn't happen too often that we are all in agreement! Mike and Jayke even came home and went through the entire routine again on the living room floor. Then the poor kid went to bed because he was exhausted.

No pictures of the Karate yet but they will be coming! Stay tuned!