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karate, fireworks, random
Jul. 16th, 2014 10:49 amI noticed yesterday that the last time I posted on my journal was the 2nd of this month. I'm not quite sure why I haven't felt like writing things down for the interwebs lately. It's not like we have been too busy for me to post, nor have we been so inactive that I've had nothing to post. I'm fairly certain I have five or six posts worth of pictures trapped on one or another of our cameras.
We went and saw fireworks on the 4th, and M did sparklers with the kiddos the next evening - I took pictures of the sparkler play, but didn't bring the camera to the park for the fireworks. C played glow bracelet fairy again this year - one kid made him take a dollar, so I told C we could donate it. H and S sat near the top of the ball rope climbing thingy and had conversations with a couple of other kids. The boy of the group assumed H was older that she is, so when he found out she is only 13, he told her she made him feel short.
H has decided she is too tall to go trick-or-treating this year. Too bad we don't live where we get trick-or-treaters so she could at least give out candy. I'm thinking of getting ducklings a few days before Halloween, so H can be the duck mom while I take S and C out.
Last month S earned her high green belt and C earned his green belt. Until Thursday of next week (when S tests for her purple belt) S's and C's belts match. I was really impressed with how much of his karate C remembered and was able to render well during his testing, since he had a six month break. C is now the highest belt in his class, by several levels. The Sensei asked him to do moves they had not reviewed in class, since it was mostly populated by white-belts. I think the break was good for C. He is more mature, and now rather than being sucked in by the sillier kids, he's annoyed by them. To earn his blue, C had to work on controlling his own impulses, especially his urge to talk. The only thing he has to work on now is to keep from trying to control the other kids; he wants them to pay attention and follow the rules and stop messing around.
Yesterday M bought me a limequat tree.
We went and saw fireworks on the 4th, and M did sparklers with the kiddos the next evening - I took pictures of the sparkler play, but didn't bring the camera to the park for the fireworks. C played glow bracelet fairy again this year - one kid made him take a dollar, so I told C we could donate it. H and S sat near the top of the ball rope climbing thingy and had conversations with a couple of other kids. The boy of the group assumed H was older that she is, so when he found out she is only 13, he told her she made him feel short.
H has decided she is too tall to go trick-or-treating this year. Too bad we don't live where we get trick-or-treaters so she could at least give out candy. I'm thinking of getting ducklings a few days before Halloween, so H can be the duck mom while I take S and C out.
Last month S earned her high green belt and C earned his green belt. Until Thursday of next week (when S tests for her purple belt) S's and C's belts match. I was really impressed with how much of his karate C remembered and was able to render well during his testing, since he had a six month break. C is now the highest belt in his class, by several levels. The Sensei asked him to do moves they had not reviewed in class, since it was mostly populated by white-belts. I think the break was good for C. He is more mature, and now rather than being sucked in by the sillier kids, he's annoyed by them. To earn his blue, C had to work on controlling his own impulses, especially his urge to talk. The only thing he has to work on now is to keep from trying to control the other kids; he wants them to pay attention and follow the rules and stop messing around.
Yesterday M bought me a limequat tree.
