A Medal in Every Event

Last Saturday, the day after testing for her red belt, Olivia participated in another Tae Kwon Do tournament in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.

She entered every single event this year which includes weapons, board breaking, forms, point sparring, and olympic/continuous sparring. She did a fantastic job and actually placed in every single event she participated in.

She started the day off by placing first in weapons.

Her next event was board breaking, in which she placed 2nd.

The third event was forms, which she placed 3rd.

Before the event of the day was point sparring, in which she also placed 3rd.

Finally, to wrap up the day, she placed 2nd in continuous sparring.

It was a really good day for Olivia as well as the rest of her club, the Cincinnati Martial Arts Club.  Many of the 21 CMAC students walked away with a lot of trophies and medals.  Congrats to all!

Red (Belt) October

Last Friday night Olivia tested for her red belt in Tae Kwon Do. She did a fantastic job as you can see below from some of the pictures and the videos.

As her instructors told her, now the work starts.  The long, hard training towards her next belt: BLACK

Here are a couple of videos:

Congratulations to all the promotees, and especially our Olivia!

Fall...It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Fall has to be our favorite season of the year! We love the cooler weather!  We like to get out our sweaters, sweatshirts, and jeans.

We love the fuzzy caterpillars!

We love all the beautiful colors!

We love the harvest moon!

We love leaf piles!

God is a magnificent artist indeed!

Quoting Joie

Over the weekend, in the van....

Looking at her watch, Joie says, "I'm going to ignore the skinny line."

I respond, "Do you mean the second hand?"

Joie replies, "No, it's the third hand."

Tipping the Scales to Take a New Seat

The day has finally come!  While Livvi was able to do it at age 5, it has taken Joie until now, 2 months shy of her 7th birthday, to reach this milestone.

Joie has finally gained enough weight to get out of her car seat and onto a booster seat.  She has been consistently at 40 pounds for the last few days, so she gets to graduate to the freedom of a booster seat!