The boy has a new activity

I honestly don't think we've even shared with the grandparents yet!  But, Toot has started taking Taekwondo.  Surprise!  :-D

He's only had 2 classes so far.  They encourage these kids to take more than one a week, but their class times for his age level are such that we can only conveniently make one a week right now.  Regardless, this may be something that goes by the wayside come the fall and the commencement of whatever sport he's going to play then.  Maybe.  We really don't know.  His particular TKD school is pur-etty spendy, so we'll see how it all goes.

ANYway, this all came about when he started talking about "wanting to take Kung Fu with a boy teacher with boys in the class".  (He really did say all that).  Translation - I want to go do something where someone new can teach me something, and I've seen Kung Fu Panda so many times, that this really looks like something I NEED to do".

So, since he has begun learning the days of the week and what they mean (that was a prerequisite for his having any sort of extracurricular activity), we looked around, asked for opinions, and just sort of closed our eyes and picked.  (We have a surprising number of martial arts schools around here).  The school itself is nice.  It's clean, the instructors are really awesome with the kids, everyone is friendly.  I know next to nothing about martial arts, TKD included.  So, I don't know anything about belts or tournaments or how to help him or any of that sort of thing.

However, he's AWFULLY cute in his uniform, which I learned yesterday is called a do-bok.  :-)  And, that he's a really good boy in class, because he earned the "Future Black Belt Sticker" for being a good helper and paying good attention and giving 110%.  He was SO stinkin' excited!!

The video shows them doing some kick thing.  (So sorry.  Seriously - it's our second time to go.  I know none of the terminology).  He's the first cute little thing you see go around the circle of kicky-things.  He doesn't have any of the "stuff" on his do-bok.  I was far away, and taping this through a window with a phone.  I apologize for it being so hard to see!

Did I mention that he LOVES being praised for yelling "YES SIR!!!!" louder than anyone else?  And the kicking and punching things part is gravy.  That's our boy.

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