Broken Board - TWICE!

Okay, as you know, Finn broke a board a few months ago. But the situation has never presented itself for either Korri or Mac and I was starting to feel bad for Korri because she REALLY wanted to. Well, tonight Korri and Mac (while Finn was at flag football practice) agreed to do a karate demonstration at Street Party of Hope in Buffalo benefiting Buffalo Hospital Foundation's Community Cancer Care Fund (out of the goodness of their hearts to support a good cause...and to get Dojo Dollars to spend on karate stuff!!).

I think it was the first demonstration for both kiddos. Anyway, after both kiddos went to the Dojo booth to jump in the bouncy house for a bit and then they got hungry. As we were leaving, Master Chris asked if Korri had already broken a board tonight and I told him she'd NEVER broken a board...so she did!

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She said it was really easy and wondered if they had a "medium" board to try! That's my girl!

And then they asked if Mac wanted to! I was like, um yeah!

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I mean, the first attempt was really just to check out the situation, right?

They were both so proud of themselves! I love the confidence karate gives them. Even in the demonstration...they are in front of a LOT of people whom they don't know and they did what they were told and did it well.

Now, when are mommy and daddy going to break a board? LOL

Mac's graduation to his blue double striper belt is tomorrow night! He's SO excited.

Second first day

Today was Mac's second first day of preschool, but first day of Pre-K (4's and 5's compared to 3's and 4's last year). And I think I'm going to like afternoon preschool vs morning. He can get up when he wants, he can slowly ease into the day (i.e. have some tablet time!), eat breakfast (or two or three!). I'm hoping that was the issue last year with not wanting to go to school.

Anyway, he was more than ready today. In fact, we ended up having to wait for the bus, even though his pickup time was at 12:15, which is the time school is supposed to start! Weird...but we are only 4 minutes from school, but still!

This was his "really excited" face:

And me with my baby:

We took these pictures around 11:50 because with that weird pickup time, I was worried the bus would actually be early. Ha, I needn't have worried. We played basketball to pass the time.

And finally at 12:22pm, it came!

I remember the time because I had a hair appointment at 12:30 and Google said it took 6 minutes to drive there! Plenty of time!

He really has grown up so much in a year. His confidence and personality amaze me every day, and make me crack up a lot of the time! I can't wait to see what he does this year.

He came home on the big bus with the Bigs and when I asked how his first day was, he said it was short. I asked if that meant it went fast and he said no, it was just short! So I think he must have had fun!

My babies aren't such babies any more. I wonder when I'll actually come to terms with that fact?!?! Probably in twenty years! Who am I kidding? Probably NEVER!!! ;)

And finally, last year's first day (left) compared to this year's first day (right):

He's gotten quite a bit taller!

A First for our First Day

Today was the first day of school for Finnegan (4th grade) and Korrigan (2nd grade). It was like any other first day of school...try to get sleepy kids moving, making sure everything is in their back packs, teeth brushed, pictures taken. Then our morning ended with this:

The bus never came! Or it MIGHT have come, but before getting to our house it stopped, turned around, backed up and went the other way! So after waiting over 45 minutes and the start of school quickly approaching, we decided I would just drive them. So our new first is me dropping them off at school! Can you believe I've NEVER done that before?

It was actually kind of fun. And Korri was having a difficult time with being late (which she technically wasn't...she's just used to being early), so I was able to walk her to her classroom and connect with her teacher about it. I was volunteering for the incoming Kindergartners anyway, so it all worked out. But, sheesh!

So, here is my big 4th grader this morning:

This is his last first day of school picture in elementary! I can't believe middle school is knocking on our door. I need to stop thinking about it. There's plenty of time to worry about that in the months ahead!

Here is my very excited second grader (which is a HUGE blessing):

She's all sass. She picked out her outfit and hair style. She picked the blue spray for in the hair and she requested to pose in her picture! Love her so much.

I couldn't even bribe them to actually touch, but here they are in the same picture at least (that's something, right?):

We took a LOT of pictures while waiting for the bus, but I won't post them all here! Here's hoping for a better drop off this afternoon!

May God bless this school year and keep all children safe and help to create an environment where they can learn and be successful!! Amen.