Belt ceremony

Last night we attended Eric's belt graduation ceremony.  He has been waiting for this day for a loooong time.  

 This is Eric with his Sensei.  He's a pretty cool dude.

 This is Eric and one of his best buddies, discussing the finer techniques of Karate and self defense.  More likely, they were discussing an ipad game called "Road Blocks", as Ryan was at our house the day before and they were playing it together.

 Eric with 2 of his classmates.  Good kids.  They all met at daycare, and are all in Mrs. Miller's class this year.  We carpool with Lizzie to karate.

 We got to the dojo an hour early to get the best seats in the house (Front and center....)  I wanted a good view of Eric having his yellow belt tied on him.  As luck would have it, another, bigger student was getting his belt tied on right in front of Eric.  This was the best I could get.

 New yellow belts

 The yellow performing a jab jab cross snap kick combo

Not going to mess with this group of kids

 These 2 students were awarded their red/black belts.  This is the beginning of their black belt level.  What's neat about this is that the boy on the left is the youngest to earn a red/black belt at this school, and the man on the right is the oldest to earn it.  Ethan is only 10.

 Where's Eric???

Always reluctant to smile on the outside for stuff like this, but he is beaming on the inside.  He even let me hug him when we got home. 

I told Eric that I would cook him whatever he wanted for supper.  He picked hot dogs and potato chips.  We also had our ninja cookies.