Karate

Skip and I have been talking about whether or not Leon would like karate for probably about a year now. I finally called to see about getting him into a class to see if he would even like it. He had an "evaluation" today to see if he was ready for it or not. He passed with flying colors!!! Skip showed him a video of it online one day and Leon kept talking about it. I asked him if he wanted to go and see if he was ready for it and he said yes, so I told him he was going today after I picked him up from school. He was so excited! When we got there all he wanted to do was sit and watch the class that was going on, which happened to be the class he would be in. He was so amazed at everything that was going on. He watched for a little bit until it was time to go do his evaluation. During his evaluation, they did all kinds of things. At first he started out with three different shapes, all three different colors and had him tell him what colors and shapes they were. Then he did some balance stuff like hopping on one foot, then the other foot and then jumping with both feet together both forward and backwards. Then, he got out the arm shields and had him practice punching and kicking etc. He had such a blast that he asked if he could go to class today! The only thing was by the time we were done with everything, the class was done. Noah was even starting to get into some of it!! He was clapping and cheering him on!! So, we decided to do a trial run for a little while and make sure he likes it and everything. He will start on Monday and it will be twice a week. His little uniform is just the absolute cutest thing I've ever seen I think!!!! I can't wait to get it washed and his patches sewn on and take a picture of him!!! Once we got home all he talked about was, when do I get to go back to karate mom??? A few days...a few days...it will seem like an eternity to him!!!!

Oh yes...I forgot to mention...not only did we already know that Leon is incredibly intelligent, but everything he did today for his evaluation...exceeds almost all of the expectations they have for the 5-8 year old class...just obviously closer to the 5-6 year olds. Leon gets his books out and pretends to read to Noah...although this weekend, I actually got him to read a couple pages of Green Eggs and Ham...too bad he misses the round up cutoff for kindergarden by 39 days this year!!!!