On Sunday we had Ty's first belt ceremony. It was at Lake Pine Community Center and it was for all of the kids at the studio. Me, being completely new to the karate scene, had really no idea what to expect. For one, it was way longer than I expected, but it was also pretty darn interesting. The kids did their "performances" (for lack of a better word) getting progressively more difficult as the higher belts showed their skills. The black belts were fascinating with their jumping, sparring, and board breaking. I also learned that Tyler's instructor (Master Robert Turley) and especially the other school's instructor (GrandMaster Ken MacKenzie) are quite well known in the world of karate. GrandMaster MacKenzie was trained by the same man who trained Bruce Lee. He is very high in rank in the Tae Kwon-Do world and the only westerner with the prestigious 9th Degree Blackbelt in the art of Sin Moo Hapkido. Pretty cool stuff. Anyway, eventually it was time for the belt ceremony. They had the new blackbelts help to tie the new yellow belts on the students. Unfortunately the kid that tied Ty's belt did a pretty poor job, which actually worked in our favor. I went to ask an older student for help in re-tying it and Master Turley immediately walked over and tied Ty's belt for him and then lifted him in the air by his new belt. Tyler was beaming the whole time. So cute!
My mom asked Ty if he wanted to go celebrate with lunch and he picked McDonald's. So much for my month of no fast food. Only made it 7 days. So sad. But myself, Jason, Ty and my mom had a nice lunch.
Back at home Jason napped and Alex came over and he and Ty played outside for a while and then inside. Eventually he went home and we had a nice dinner before getting to bed early (to try to recover from the whole daylight savings time thing).
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