Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Playing School & A Green Belt!

I would say my older kids get along about 60% of the time.  When they do play well together, they usually are playing ninjas or "bad guys" or some other Cameron-driven game.  Roo is a good sport!  Once in awhile though, they will actually play something uplifting and productive...like school!  ALL of my childhood memories are of me playing pretend....school, house, jungle, fortune teller, travel agency, library...nonstop pretending.  I had a wonderful childhood!  So I love watching my kids do that too.

The other day, Cam and Roo were playing school.  Cam was teaching her how to make these math graphs, and it was great because she was actually learning it!  If Cam could stop killing bad guys and start playing school every day, Roo could be two grades ahead!  :)

They have leftover facepaint on from a Valentine's party.  Here they are playing school.  Too cute!


In other news, Cameron tested for his green belt last week, and he got to see his results and get his belt last night!  He is so excited!  He has come SO far in just 6 months.  We are so proud of him.  His moves will start becoming a lot more intricate and difficult now, and when he spars (fights) with the other kids, he will start making actual contact (I'm nervous!).  He'll test for his blue stripe in April, and then his blue belt in June!  Exciting.


1 comment:

DeAnn said...

Karen's taking a break from karate for awhile. I'm glad to be done paying for it and to have one less thing to drive to, but yet I loved that she had something that was hers, she liked and she was good at. She started at white to orange to yellow to camoflauge to green to purple and is stopping at blue.