Tae Kwon Do

Back in January, Zoey's school had an outing at a local Tae Kwon Do place. She attended with her BFF, Abbie, and had a blast.

Crazy Girls

PUNCH

KICK

Since Zoey seemed to enjoy herself, we went ahead and signed her up for a two week trial. Once the trial ended, we went ahead and signed her up for real. She was super excited when she got her gi. I still haven't figured out how to tie her belt so that it won't come undone.

After about a week of officially being in class, so three weeks total, we were all informed that testing would be coming up. The expectation was that if the child had just recently started classes that they would not test this cycle, so we weren't expecting Zoey to get a testing letter. However, one of the last classes before testing week, she was given a testing letter.

I was super nervous on the night of testing. I'm still not really sure why. I think I was just worried that since she hadn't been there that long that she wouldn't do very well. However, I need not worry. Since she was just moving from a white belt to a white belt with a black stripe, the testing was pretty mild. She just had to show that she knew which moves were which when they were called out to her. She did well, but was off balance on her front kick and side kick. She struggles a lot with balance in general.

High Block

Pizza Strike

Front Kick

Zoey's Testing Group

We had to wait a week to see if she would receive a belt promotion or not. I was again nervous that night because I knew she didn't really understand the whole testing concept and worried that she would be upset if she didn't get a new belt. Luckily I didn't have to find out how she would do because she was promoted a half belt, which is between white and yellow. She was very excited when her name was called and when she ran up to receive her belt she started jumping up and down with her fists up in the air. LOL!

She has a super excited look on her face in this pic

So now Zoey is working towards her yellow belt. The next testing is scheduled for May. I'm not sure if she will get a testing letter or not. She's been struggling a little bit with staying focused and listening in class lately. At times she seems overwhelmed by the noise and has been covering her ears. Other times, she is just messing off. We'll have to see how the next month goes. I'm just glad she is having fun.

Zoey's School Celebrates Dr. Seuss' Birthday

 One of the best things about having a child in preschool is the cute themed days they get to do. A couple of weeks ago was Dr. Seuss' birthday, so the kids at Zoey's school got to dress up every day. I had fun finding things for her to wear, maybe more fun then she did. LOL!

Monday

Hat Day

Zoey in her "fancy hat"

Zoey and Abbie both had fancy hats

Tuesday

Crazy Sock Day

Wednesday

Wacky Wednesday

Zoey wanted to wear Scott's shirt - I did Coolio braids in her hair and colored it blue

Crazy girls

Abbie wore her best friends shirt backwards and thought it was hilarious

Thursday

Wear Green

TMNT shirt and her Abracadabra hat

I LOVE Preschool

Disney on Ice - Worlds of Fantasy

As I mentioned in my last post about our experience on Disney on Ice Frozen, I really wanted Zoey to be able to go to a Disney on Ice show with her best friend Abbie. Luckily it worked out and Abbie and her mom, as well as Abbie's older sister, were able to come with us to Disney on Ice - Worlds of Fantasy, which was at the end of February.

All ready for the show

Once again I found the best seats in our price range for the 11:00 show, but we didn't have to leave the house as early since this show was actually in Columbus. However, I did leave early so there would be plenty of time to park and make our way into the arena. I allowed way too much time. It was a cinch to park and make our way into the arena. Total different experience from when we went to Cleveland. I don't know if it was that this show wasn't as popular as Frozen or if parking and whatnot is just easier at Nationwide Arena. I was very happy with the seats we ended up getting. They were even better than our seats before and they were cheaper (thanks to our zoo membership).

We kept the show a secret from both Zoey and Abbie, so they had no idea they were going to the show or that they were going with each other. It was so awesome that they got to see the show together. I took tons of pictures of the two of them because they are just so cute!

This picture makes me laugh. Zo is such a goof!

They are both wearing BFF shirts :)

This show was a bunch of different Disney characters. It started out with Mickey and Minnie taking us on an adventure, but their car breaks down, so they go to look for help. At this point, the Cars portion of the show started with Mater coming out to take a look at Mickey's car. The cars were able to get Mickey's car up and running, so the adventure was able to continue. Zoey was really into this part of the show. She was really nervous that Mickey's car wasn't going to start. LOL!

The show then moved into the Little Mermaid. It was a very condensed version of the story and included all of the best songs. There were some pretty great costumes for the sea creatures. The Ursula character was well done. I was worried that it would scare Zoey since she was terrified of the Ursula character at the show we went to at Disney World. However, she handled it well. I could tell she was a little apprehensive, but she didn't ask to leave.

Dancing like crazy girls

After the Little Mermaid was Tinkerbell. Honestly, I wasn't a huge fan of this portion of the show. I felt like it was a little too long. It was basically about how Tinkerbell thought being a tinker fairy wasn't an important job (because another fairy told her that) and how she tried to do each of the other fairy's jobs. Of course she wasn't good at them and caused havoc doing so, but saved the day by using her own talent. Good message (Don't try to be something your not and just be proud of who you are because we are all special), but I just wasn't entertained by it.

Intermission was after the Tinkerbell portion of the show, so we went out to the concessions to get the kids a snack. I also wanted to get Abbie and Zoey's picture at the souvenir picture place. I made the bad call of stopping at a stand that was no where near our seats to get Zoey her cotton candy. It was also the slowest moving line. The show started while we were still in line, so Elizabeth (Abbie's mom) took Abbie and Zoey back to the seats. Hanna volunteered to stay with me and help carry everything back (she's such a sweet girl).

The entire second half of the show was Toy Story and basically covered the story line of Toy Story 3.  It was pretty cute for the most part and I didn't mind at all that it took the whole second half of the show. There were a few parts that were kind of boring, but overall it was entertaining and I'm pretty sure the girls liked it (even though they were busy eating their cotton candy).

These kids were super creepy

I enjoyed the show and was so happy that Zoey and Abbie got to enjoy the show together. Zoey told me she liked Worlds of Fantasy better than Frozen (I liked Frozen better). I don't know why she liked it better, but I suspect it was because Abbie was there.

As we were walking back to the car, Zoey asked me "what on ice are we doing next?" I guess that means she likes going to them. LOL!