Pedro's Journey to Blackbelt Step 3

Well it was testing day yet again at Bonifay Ata. And after weeks of practice little Pedro was ready yet again to show off his Handy dandy and totally AWESOME taekwondo skills. Having done received his orange belt and then his orange Tiger patch for his belt along with really super cool orange headband, it is time to now show off his orange belt skills and test for his YELLOW belt. He is sooo excited and claims that at each testing he is ready for his black belt!!!! 



Time to show off some Black belt
attributes





Patiently waiting as introductions
are given





Ready Position



Now it is time to show how well he can do his "form".  



High Block



Muscle block

 

 



With his part of testing complete
it is now time to wait while his school mates
complete their testing!



Testing is now complete and for Tiny Tigers it is time for belt ceremony.......



Congratulations for a job well done!!!



Officially a YELLOW belt!!!!!



Introducing Pedro The Yellow Belt

Even though this testing lasted a little longer than usual because the TINY TIGERS tested with the older beginner's group. But they held in there in did very well, needless to say I am super proud of my Pedro...

AWESOME JOB!!!!!!!!!

Farm Day 2011 part 2

Up to this point Farm Day has been a blast, but the littles are beginning to show signs of "farm lag" in other words they needed a break and a few minutes of down time. So I guess one could say that the K9 demonstration provided them with just the right amount of down time. So even though it was 30 minutes until time to start this mom had the kids sit down and wait. During this time period the kids got to participate in a coin hunt, which consisted of the kids digging through hay for coins and toy cars.

Pedro found two cars and like 80 cent

sure was a lot of kids

Gabby found 95 cent

After some fierce money hunting and an educational presentation about police K9s it was time to go pet some more animals. At this point in time Marco wanted to pet some cows, but there were no tame cows to be petted. So we went and looked at the animals in the petting area hoping that would suffice....

First we found the bunnies. All six kids got to pet the bunny, but No I did not get pics of all six kids, sorry they just move too fast!






Marco still wanted to pet a cow, but you guessed it still no cow!



Not sure but that may be either a cow
or a sheep

Just noticed the cow!!! oops, but being that Marco wouldn't enter the petting pens whether or not it was a cow was irrelevant.



Pedro, Selina, Gabby Petting sheep





Issi and Lina Petting Sheep

 So by this time Marco still wants to see a "really BIG PET COW" as he calls it. So as mom I remember seeing some cows in a field where we first came in. Couldn't get the cows to come to the fence, but we did manage to get a really BIG and pretty horse to come up to the fence so we could pet it... Marco was finally happy and satisfied cause he got to see some BIG COWS even though they weren't the petting kind he was happy with petting the horse.

Lead by animal loving Isabela the kids all begin to pet the horse. Although Pedro would have nothing to do with such a big animal the other 5 were happy to pet the horse!

Now that we have successfully petted all the animals that we could pet. It was time for the treasure hunt. So this resourceful mom looks around and finds a handy dandy if you get lost meeting spot and informs all six kids where this spot is. After informing ALL SIX kids where the meeting spot was we go to the treasure hunt. The first clue was read and then the second and then the third until finally the last, I had managed to keep the Pedro and Selina with me all this time and to keep Marco and Gabby in my sight at least most of the time even though there was a nob of 100 or so kids running around. But now they are throwing the treasure out to the kids and next thing I know Pedro is GONE!!! Talk about panic, my baby boy who is only 3 I might add, is missing so I start to look all over in the crowd of kids find Issi and send her looking. Make Alejandro sit with Marco and Pedro and then make my way to the stage and tell an event volunteer he is missing. So the man ask what is he wearing? All I could remember putting on Pedro that morning was green pants and his zebra striped shoes. So I finally get my brain working and remember that I had took some pics of him. So i get the camera and still leave my phone with the three that are sitting down(in a minute you ll see why I even mention my phone) and take the camera and start asking people if they had seen Pedro all the while showing them his pic, I then send Issi to ask a friend to help find Pedro just as she goes to get help I ask another event volunteer if she had seen Pedro. To my relief she says they have a little boy named Pedro at the LOST and FOUND. So with Pedro in hand I realize that I had not seen Gabby in a few. So I send Issi to the swing set(remember the meeting spot) and Gabby is not there after about 10 mins of searching Gabriella comes up and says "mom, where were you? The lady tried to call you." So I checked my phone 5 missed calls and 2 voice mails. Voice mail number 1 we have Pedro at the Lost and Found! Voicemail number 2 We have Gabby at the registration tent. If I would of only grabbed the phone... I refere to this incident as the day supermom crashed...     Go ahead and laugh I did when it was all said and done!!!!

Now with all 6 kids in tow it is time to roast some marshmallows.....

The Following is what occurs when Pedro is given FREE REIGN on marshmallows. He didn't like to roast but sure did love to eat them off the stick. He was amazed at how as soon as he ate one somebody would come along and put another marshmallow on his stick!

 



Selina decided to get in on the
marshmallow dance, also!



After some marshmallow roasting it was time for the bonfire and some fireworks.....

 

The bonfire was huge! Marco was a little overwhelmed by the size of it, 



Alejandro is pretty awesome at taking pics.

 We took the opportunity to get some family pictures, each of the older three took turns taking pictures...



Alejandro took this one



Gabriella took this one





Isabela took this one. The Fireworks
started as she took it!

After watching the fireworks we settled in on the hay ride around the bonfire. The kids really enjoyed it... After enjoying the fireworks and the hay ride it was time to call it a night and head home. Every one had a  blast and slept good all night.
 





Farm Day 2011 part 1

We recently went to Farm Day. It was our first time going to Farm Day even though from my understanding it is a yearly event,o we really didn't know what to expect. The kids thought oh we are going to a farm and are going to see a few animals, I overheard Issi tell Jandro " We probably wont be here long, How long could it take to look at some cows?". Well to the kids surprise Farm Day turned out to be awesome, not only were there cows but their were all kinds of things set up for the kids to do.

First stop on our day at the farm was the tractors. Pedro really enjoyed looking at them. Then the girls spotted the corn dolls and what little girl can resist a chance to make a doll, even if it is out of a corn husk. To my surprise even the boys seemed to get a kick out of making a doll and dressing it.

 

Pedro and Selina didn't make theirs them selves. They were content to watch the lady make theirs. While the other 4 kids made their own!

While we were on the corn area I guess you could call it the kids got to try their hand at decoening the corn shucking the cob. They thought this was fun, bet they would of thought differently if it was their chore and they had to do more than one.

 

They all brought home their corn cob to keep as a souvenir.... Each one also wanted to bring home some dried corn, but thnakfully that idea was short lived..

All of a sudden we spotted a camel.......... The kids and I had to pet him, never got to pet a camel before, poor Marco was afraid to touch it at first but with in a few minutes he was petting the camel also.

All Marco said once he felt it was, "It is so soft, mommy. Just like my HAIR!"

That was until the camel did this.......

They all thought it was going to spit on them...

OK, with the camel petting done and the corn area experienced it was time to move on to some thing else. Right about then is when the kids noticed the cotton candy. So each kid got a cotton candy, next thing I knew they all had cotton candy beards and mustaches...

The sugary fun didn't end with the cotton candy. They had a Funnel cake, which Pedro called a sugar cake, in hand before they even finished the cotton candy. Soon after finishing the funnel cake they moved in to snow cones. So to say they were slightly sugared up would be an understatement!

So now we encounter what I like to call the turtle fiasco!!! The older 5 kids were all enjoying this rare chance to check out some really BIG turtles. But Little Pedro was not having it. He was convinced that these poor helpless turtles as Issi calls them were mean, man eating dinosaurs with nothing better to do than eat his 5 siblings. So as you see the older kids in the turtle corral picture Pedro jumping up and down 20 feet away screaming at the top of his lungs, " NO DON'T EAT MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS! YOU BETTER GET OUT OF THERE!" he sobs for a minute drops to the ground crying and then jumps back up screaming "NO, NO, NO GET OUT OF THERE THEY ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!" Sorry no vid of this but I couldn't stop laughing at him.



Sorry it is so OE'd it was the best of the 4 I took.



Wether going up or coming down the kids had a blast on this huge hay slide!

with that we have concluded only half of the days fun so.......

To be continued............... Look for Farm Day part 2