Zachary's Lost Tooth

ok, zachary is about to make a large withdrawal on the tooth fairy's bank account! i know every kid goes through this, but it is very amusing to me now that it is my own child! he actually has already lost one bottom tooth, but it wasn't really obvious because the adult tooth was already growing in behind it, and therefore didn't leave much of a gap. but this is great! the one next to it is wiggly, and his other bottom tooth is about to come out any time now. maybe we'll start calling him gaps.....?

Karate Testing

it's that time again - testing for karate! zachary is going for his green belt, and jordan will be moving up to a tiny tiger brown belt. they both did an excellent job and most of you would be surprised to hear that they both stayed quiet for most of the 2 hours! master jackson tells all the kids if he catches them talking, he will tear up their test papers and have to wait for the next testing date in 4 months - i guess that's good enough motivation for keeping their mouths closed! lolthis is the forms part of testing...

are we boring you yet, jordan?!

well maybe this will wake her up - i know it's very fuzzy (i still have to figure out how to take action shots in low lighting with my camera), but check out our instructor chris's flying side kick! he really gets up there - if you look, you will see the girl holding the bag up is standing on a platform about 2 feet high!

moving on to sparring...

and last but not least, here is zachary breaking his first board! last time he had to break it over chris's head. this time they let him break a thinner board, so hopefully the next time he will have the confidence to break the regular size one!

Jordan and Dad at Disneyland

ok it is now official - no more ride switching at disneyland! jordan is now 40 inches tall (this picture doesn't show it well because she is not standing up straight). so now the whole family can go on space mtn., soaring over

california, tower of terror, etc. all together! hooray!

this was jordan's day with daddy. it was just the two of them for the day! looks like they had great fun!

Zachary's Karate Test

so zachary managed to earn his way to the belt test for karate. he did a great job - he actually stayed quiet the whole 2 hours! unbelievable!

center punch (in korean: choon dan kong kyuck - we do actually have to know the korean terms! they are part of our test!)

i know this picture is fuzzy, but i just thought it was great anyway! this was during the sparring section of testing.

zachary has yet to break a board but since it is a requirement to break the board before passing, he got to break it over the head of our black belt instructor chris! what a tough guy! the picture below shows right after zachary broke the board, and Chris doesn't even look phased! zachary looked at our master belt instructor like he was crazy when he told zachary to break it this way - i wish i had captured that moment on camera!

Griffith Park & Observatory

we took a trip to griffith park, and the kids got to ride the miniature train (kyle is totally into trains and he rode it twice). zachary and jordan also rode the ponies, but the pictures didn't turn out.

anybody hungry for ham...?!

it was a beautiful sunset! it almost looks like we were photoshopped into this background!

this telescope kyle is looking into was actually built by the guy standing in the back behind kevin. there were several of these out on the lawn. pretty cool!

ok, so now everyone is witness to where my children get their bad manners from lol!

Trike-a-thon

kyle's kindergarten class had a trike-a-thon to raise money for the field trips. kyle chose to ride his scooter, and he did 6 laps (they laps are about a quarter mile long). zachary actually ran the first two laps alongside kyle! unfortunately this did not accomplish any drain in energy - what is with that?!

 whew! all done - time for a cool down!

thumbs up dude! he did great!

the whole happy clan!

 

here is my daughter the ham! she will pose all day long for the camera!

 

oh boy she is going to love these when i pull them out for her first boyfriend to see ha ha!

Halloween

so i am very impressed with kevin and his creativity! he actually made these robot costumes all on his own! they were so stinkin' cute and got so much attention at the church halloween night!

zachary insisted on being a ghost - easy enough! however, he couldn't see out the eye holes because the sheet would move around, so i ended up ripping open the sheet to make a big face hole instead, so he spent the rest of the night looking like i dressed him up to be muslim!

kevin went as an astronaut - very "him." the only complaint i have is that this outfit he is in he wore when he was in middle school - why can't i be that skinny still?!

10-18 Jordan's Karate Test

ok, so it took some convincing because jordan's interest in karate seems to be dwindling away, but i made her finish up to the test to get promoted to the next belt. zachary has been having trouble staying quiet in class (a shocker!) so he was put on probation and couldn't test this time with jordan, but he has improved somewhat and will be testing tomorrow (november 15th).

jordan was very insistent on getting pink sparring gear when we ordered it - what a girlie girl!

this was jordan's pouty time - a karate essential with her! call me bias, but i think she looks beautiful even when she is grumpy!

oh happy day! two weeks later she was a happy little camper with a pretty new green belt and promotion certificate! yay!

04-18 Funderland

these pictures are actually from back in april, but i thought they were cute, and that people could see something besides disneyland pics! lol. this place is called funderland. it is a teeny tiny little park for kids in sacramento. they had such a blast! we bought the unlimited wristbands for each kid and stayed for about 5 hours. it was a great way to get out for the day.

i think these kids are a little too giddy about driving - i think i will be scared when they become teenagers! lol

hey how rude!

just in case you are wondering, kevin taught them to put their hands up on the rides at a very young age, so it is apparently a requirement no matter how slow the ride!

isn't he sweet?

peek-a-boo! i see you!