All about my boy, part 2

Tonight Andrew had his first belt test in karate so that he could test up to the yellow belt from the beginner white belt that he's been for the last 10 weeks. He was also one of the few who were chosen as "MVP" of the group because he did "exceptionally well" in their belt test :) Before that, though, he had a district art show that his watercolor painting of himself was chosen to be displayed in. So we had a fun night of showering our sweet boy with hugs and congratulations :) He was so proud of himself, too!

His painting of himself (with some crazy eyelashes & a comb-over lol)


Getting his new yellow belt officially tied on.

They say that to bow deep shows respect - looks as if Andrew has lots of respect with his bow! haha

The firm handshake :)


Getting his certificate


My proud boy :)


It is done. :)

My little curly sue

This morning, Miguel got Macy's hair wet and we didn't comb it or anything - we just let her play outside and let it dry however it was.... She ended up with more curls than normal, which were kinda hard to see in these pics because of the wind that was blowing and making it look kinda crazy, but they're cute pics anyway :)

All about my boy...

Today, Andrew had his very first karate tournament. It was a "winners tournament", which means they each won an award... But he scored 5 points first against his teammate (who was also named Andrew), so he won 1st place :) He was excited and told me that he used math to figure out how to win - because he looked at the scoreboard and saw that the other kid had 2 points and he himself had 3 points, and he knew that if he did a kick technique, that he would get 2 more points, making him get 5 total points to win the match - and he did that kick technique and won the match :) He literally couldn't stop smiling all the way home :) (pics are out of order)


(our Andrew is the one with the black helmet on the left)

Pics from the last few weeks...

Just some pics from the last few weeks...


Andrew was my "assistant" at a recent photo session... While waiting for my clients, he found two sticks and decided to try and start a fire with them. :) He asked me a bit after taking this picture, to touch one of the sticks and see if it was hot yet. hahaha


Extremely windy, but I had to get a Mother's Day photo with my kids :)


Andrew wanted to go see the big weeping willow tree after my photo session, to see if it was weeping (it wasn't)...


At the wedding on Saturday...


This is what happened when Macy didn't want to be picked up after she ran around the reception hall. She'd drop to the ground and throw a fit. And me, I'd take a picture of her. :)




At least one of the kids looked at the camera! :)





While playing outside in the water, Macy found this little strip of weed-eater wire. She thought it was a headband or something pretty :)



That's all folks!! :)