Tae Kwon Do

Sean has been in Tae Kwon Do for almost 3 months now. He's preparing to take his first belt test in several weeks. He really loves Master Nixon and his class. Here is Sean with the bigger white belts and white belt/black stripes doing jumping exercises. He made it over one bag and two bags...

Oooh My Poor Leg...

Today Michael and I took our traditional day off for Sean's birthday to spend the day with him. We had a full day. 8:15am 5 year check up and plans to see the King Tut exhibit.

Sean had hurt his leg this past Friday. We took him to the nurse practitioner, and she thought Sean had a pulled groin muscle. Today at Sean's 5 year check up, we mentioned it to his pediatrician, because Sean woke up in the middle of the night screaming in pain. It didn't bother him at his party (and for those there, you saw him running, bouncing, and skating). Sunday Nick came over and played, not a peep out of Sean about his leg. Needless to say Sean "earned" a finger stick for his blood count and an x-ray. I had to carry Sean around everywhere (not that that's much different from any other day, but I couldn't MAKE him because of his leg), he was really pitiful trying to limp around. When I put him in the car I whispered a little something for him to tell his dad.

When we got home, Michael was getting ready to go to the museum with us. Sean put on a pouty face and said in the most fake pitiful voice, "Ooooh my poor leg, please buy me something." (Daddy... guess who taught him that?) Then Sean and I just cracked up laughing.

The funniest part was when we were in the gift shop at the King Tut exhibit, Sean pulled out his newly learned tactic and used it on his dad in front of everyone. He earns brownie points for appropriate usage.

I am HAPPY to report all the test results came back normal and he will go in for a follow up if it persists through the week.

Oh... if you plan to see the King Tut exhibit before it's gone, THEY DON'T HAVE THE ACTUAL SARCOPHAGUS THERE. Only artifacts are in this exhibit, the sarcophagus is in a museum in Cairo.

Happy Birthday Sean!!!

Thank you to everyone that made it to Sean's party yesterday at Texas Skatium. If you took digital pictures at the party please send us copies. I'd like to use them for Sean's birthday scrapbook. As soon as I've downloaded and received pictures from everyone I'll post them on the blog.

For those he didn't make it... we REALLY lucked out. We had a private party room and the bounce area all to ourselves. Sean was a pretty special boy.

Some of the grown ups ventured out and played in the bounce houses. It was more of a work out for us, but ALOT of fun.

The Cake:
As always "Thank You!!" Absolutely Edible. They ALWAYS do an awesome job for Sean's birthday cake.



The Birthday Boy:


The Pirate Booty:

Shake What Your Mama Gave You

Sean and I were getting ready to go to bed for the night. As he was getting off the couch I told Sean, "Shake what your mama gave you." He just looked at me, so I repeated myself.

"I don't want to." Sean said.

"Do you know what your mama gave you?" I asked

Sean: "God gave it to me."

Me: "God gave you what?"

Sean: "My booty."

I couldn't argue with that.

What a ham!

These are Sean's spring pictures from Oak Park. I'll have hard copies for the family at Sean's party this weekend. Isn't he a ham? You can't tell that he loves the camera.

Wonder...

Hooray... The Cast Is Finally Off!!!

Sean had his cast removed Thursday. After nearly 4 months of being in a cast he's finally free. His arm was quite nasty and Sean was rather obsessive about peeling the skin off:



One thing we noticed today when we were out to dinner is Sean now colors with his right hand. We thought having his left hand in the cast would make him ambidextrous, but it may have made him right handed. It's still too soon to tell. He colors, draws, and writes better with his right now. Sorry Grandpa, Nana, and Amanda... you may have one less in your ranks.

Soccer Season and Other Extracurricular Activities...

Sean is playing soccer again this spring. Michael is Head Coach and I'm Team Manager again. We were able to keep the same team together from last season. The first game was this past Saturday. It was FREEZING!!!

Sean & Dylan staying warm in the car before the game:


One of the moms was nice enough to bring hot tea for everyone. We played a new team to the league and even though at this age they don't keep score... the parents do. We slaughtered them. Dylan was with us and he lost track after 20 goals, the other team never made one.

We don't have another game til 3/28. So if you can make it please do. Below is a link to the schedule. Sean is in the U5 Boys league. His team is the Hornets.

http://www.rowlettsoccer.org/schedules.htm

This will likely be the last season we do soccer. Sean likes to play, but isn't very passionate about it. He just started Tae Kwon Do for the year and LOVES that. He also started piano lessons about 3 weeks ago.