THE KARATE KID

After months of bugging, we finally put Cole in Karate. Or is it Taekwondo? I'm not really sure. The school is called ATA Karate but ATA stands for American Taekwondo Association. I think in America it is basically considered as the same thing. I don't know.

Taekwondo: "The Way of the Hand and Foot."

The past few weeks I've been trying to secretly take little videos of Cole during class, but it's a little hard when there are so many windows. I try to do it without being obvious so I don't distract any of the kids in the class or annoy the multi-degreed black belt instructors.

He has a 30 minute class Monday through Thursday and on Saturday. Cole really enjoys it and has quickly become a stand out among his age. They test for belts every 8 weeks and he should easily get his orange belt at the end of September.

Nathan said that when the Karate Kid movie originally came out he wanted to take karate so badly...But was sadly never able to do so. He says he wished he had because the flexibilty aspect of it would have helped him in other sports but, I really think he just wanted to wear one of those head band things like that dork Daniel-son. He couldn't resist buying the movie the other day at Target. It was only $4...Shocker!!!

I found this picture online and Nathan was all excited because he had this same poster on his wall for years as a kid. He said he put athletic tape over Ralph Macchio's eyes because he was freaked out that they followed him every where in the room.

Once again...DORK!!!

Our own little Karate Kid...And a Pretty Princess, of course!