At the beginning of May youngest daughter started Taekwondo and has been loving it. Seriously loving it. Like she wants to go every day and when she’s there she wants to stay for more than one class loving it. She caught on very quickly and the Sensei has said that it just seems natural for her.
So last night she had her first belt test and she did great. She only messed up one time and still got above an 85% on her test. Right on. So here she is getting her yellow belt from Master Jordan. She’s so happy she can hardly stand it and I am very, very proud of her!
My oldest, who started dance at the same time as my youngest started her classes, now wants to stop dance and start Taekwondo. I think after seeing all the kids and the power they have she wants to learn how to kick butt too. lol Here she is messing around after the ceremony.
Also last night there was a student who was testing to try to get from a yellow belt to an orange belt. I was impressed with her test and felt for sure she was going to pass. She was the last one called up during the ceremony and the Master said there was bad news and good news. The bad news was that she wasn’t going to get her orange belt. The poor girl was trying so hard to keep her cool. Then he said that the good news was that she did so well on her test that she was going to go straight to her purple belt which is one step up from the orange belt! I’m such a sap. I totally started tearing up and she wasn’t even my daughter! 🙂
Oh congratulations to your daughter for her awesome accomplishment!! That is so great and she should be so proud of herself for learning what she needs to.
I would have reacted the same way to the news of the other girl getting double promoted like that too! Congrats to her as well :). Kinda a not-so-nice way to go about it though, but it had a better imapct that way!
Thanks Amy!
Well, in the Master's defense he did say it VERY quickly so she only freak for about 2 seconds! 🙂
Awww, Tracy, congratulations to your little one. Love the Karate Kid pose on that picture! How wonderful for the little girl who got her purple belt… it means so much to them.
What a wonderful post Tracy!
Martial Arts is so awesome for the kids – great for the self esteem as well as fitness!
Congratulations to your little one. 🙂
And the girl who jumped 2 belts – wow…. 🙂
Have a wonderful 4th of July…
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Yay for Tracy Jr.! It's so wonderful to see our kids doing something they so obviously enjoy. It makes all the taxi-ing and waiting around for them well worth it!
I'm also glad to hear that your older daughter was able to recognize that she'd probably be happier in a different activity, and speak up about it. It sounds like it will be a better fit for her, especially after some of the experiences you had with the girls from the dance studio.
Hope you all have a great 4th, Tracy! 🙂
How great of your baby to get the yellow and be so into that to inspire your other daughter. And what a cute story about the belt jump!!
Hilcia – The Master totally posed her like that. I have one also where he posed all the girls who went from white to yellow belts (all about the same age as my daughter) and they looked like Charlie's Angels only in TKD poses. Too cute.
Lea – I think it's great for self-esteem as well and was one of the reasons that I wanted both of my girls to take it. Unfortunately after taking only 1 class my oldest decided on dance. I'm going to just go month to month with her when she starts the TKD and hope that she sticks with it. 🙂
Rnee – thanks! I think it's totally wonderful that there's been something that she thoroughly loves and will do! She's so little (size-wise) that I think it's good for her to learn the self defense moves.
And OMG are you totally right about the dance studio thing or what? lol No one would be that way at the TKD studio and if they were the Master would jump on em! 🙂
CJ – thanks – she's so proud of herself! Although she kept telling me to stop crying! Bossy. 🙂
Aw, congrats Tracy! Too cute!!
Tracy you have such beautiful girls!
How exciting that she got her yellow belt! You can tell her I said that's AWESOME!
Big congrats to your daughter, that is excitingand a great accomplishment.
That is awesome for the other girl as well.
So cute!! Congrats to her, she must be super proud. 🙂
Congratulation to your daughter, Tracy!! I completely forgot to comment on your post, read it on google reader, but forgot to comment! Argh!!
Anyway, it's soooo cool for your daughter! I wish she'll get double promoted next time!!
Congrats on the new yellow belt in your house! That's wonderful! 🙂 … and hopefully seeing the girl who jumped to purple belt was super inspiring for *all* of the kids.
So um, is your little one accepting names for a hit list yet? ;p