First Place!

I  believe I mentioned that we were going to take Trevor to his very first Tae Kwon Do tournament last weekend.  Chad and I were so nervous for him!  It is really hard to watch your kid do something like that for the first time.  We watched some adults sparring and I couldn't help but worry about my little guy getting punched in the nose.  

He is a serious bleeder so if his nose had even gotten tapped it would have bled for an hour. 

 Luckily there were no such casualties. 

 I am super sick so I won't go into all the details, but Trevor ended up taking home 

two first place trophies!

The first trophy was for his pattern.  If you are not familiar with TKD, a pattern is a series of moves that he is required to learn and memorize for each belt that he earns.  The pattern for his green belt has 38 moves in it!  Each pattern has a name. 

 I don't know them all, and I couldn't tell you what they meant if I wanted to since they are Korean!

The second trophy is for sparring, or basically trying to knock the stuffing out of your opponent.  Trevor's particular opponent never got in any hits or kicks, so Trevor scored all of the available points.  He told me afterwards that he tried to stand back a bit so the other kid could get some points and get a trophy too...nice of him to think about the other guy, but a little bit beside the point of the event!

GO Trevor!

Master Stevens told me last night that they have a little competition where everyone earns points for how well they did at the quarterly tournaments.  

At the end of the year the male and female with the most points gets a six foot tall trophy!  

So far, with two first place trophies Trevor has six points, which is more than everyone else, even the adults that go to Steven's Family TKD!  

I don't want to get ahead of myself or anything....but....

Where in the world am I going to put a six foot tall trophy???