Tournament!

On May 14th Maxx competed in the Arizona Super Challenge.  He performed his week old personal form. Still needs a bit of tweaking and smoothing out, but I think he did pretty good for just learning it.  And no the splits at the end did not hurt!

He, also, competed in sparring.  He received participation medals in both.

All in a Day's Play.. No All in a Day's Work...No Both!

On May 4th as the kids were actively playing, an innocent enough looking frog soared through the air and made his way to our sliding glass door.

The culprit...

The consequences of the culprit's actions...

 Amazingly enough the "tint" on our window held the glass together.  It's still connected.

The end result...

Since our bedroom sliding glass door gets direct sun until about 11 am and the room gets rather toasty, we decided to do a swap.  We took the door out of our bedroom and put it in place of the one that broke.  Then we replaced our door with the new insulated, energy efficient, blinds in between the glass, new door.  Hopefully, this summer we will be able to see a major difference.

P.S. There's a little magnet inside the frog - aka - the real culprit. :)

Ninja Blue Belt!

Sofia earned her Ninja Blue belt on Monday!  Just don't call her a Smurf-belt....she might use some of her ninja moves on you. :)

During her test still a Barney-belt Purple belt...

Showing us her front kicks....
(She had to learn her right side kick for this belt, but of course no photo of it.)

Miss Pozon awarding her her new belt!

Very happy...

Sofia's Easter

Sofia had a horrible stomach flu Easter weekend.  By Saturday evening it seemed like she was doing better.  Even Sunday morning wasn't too bad, but then....  She didn't keep anything down all day Sunday - not even sips of water.  We debated whether we would have to take her in for dehydration.  I spent half the night in her bed periodically giving her sips of gatorade. (I'm sure that wasn't dentist approved.)  She kept it down and was much better the next day.  Still it took her a few days to bounce back - really tired.  She didn't even ask for her Easter candy until Thursday!  Anyway, yesterday Maxx did an egg hunt for her, and she wore her Easter dress to church today.

Easter!

After the Easter Bunny left...

Checking out their baskets...

Maxx and Abby in their Easter clothes.  Sofia had the stomach flu all weekend.  She'll wear her dress this Sunday, and I'll post pics later.

Pinewood Derby 2011

Maxx raced in his 2nd Pinewood Derby on April 12th.

The car...

It's name was "Question Mark".

The driver....

His car was "Judges Favorite".  It tied for 5th place.

Some crazy scout we picked up off the street....

Maxx did an awesome job on his car this year!  We are very proud of him.

Black with Green!

Abby tested April 1st for her First Degree Black with Green belt.

They had to perform a traditional form and spar.