Ok, last week was a big deal for Caitriona. She earned her first stripe in Karate. She got that for technique, she knows her basic blocks, jab, and front snap kick. All she needed to learn to advance to her next belt (the big big deal) was to memorize the student creed, which she went home and did that night. It's like a paragraph worth of stuff, I can't even remember (well, I'm old). So yesterday in class she walked up to her instructor and said "I know my student creed" and he kind of chuckled like he thought she was kidding. So he told her to go ahead and tell him, at which point she rattled it off without missing a beat.
At the end of the class he called her up front and gave her the invitation for her first belt promotion! So the Saturday she gets to go through her first promotion ceremony. She is really excited. She grinned from ear to ear all last night. Plus her first colored belt is purple, her favorite color. So she is fired up about that too.
Makes a dad proud. Give her about 10 more years and she'll be bringing this drive to the games... watch out ladies!
Oh yeah, pictures of the gym coming soon. It's done, but my wife dropped the camera last week and it did not stand up to the impact very well.