010/366: SparringKid

I said when I started this that there would inevitably be a few cell-phone snapshots, on days when I'm too busy to get fancy with the DSLR. This was one such, so here's a quick shot of SteelyKid at tonight's Elite Team taekwondo practice, talking to her coach.

SteelyKid, in sparring gear, with her taekwondo coach. SteelyKid, in sparring gear, with her taekwondo coach.

The Elite Team class is all sparring, all the time, and we established today that she's the youngest kid who goes to those classes. By about two months. Of course, the gap between second- and third-youngest is two years... (The second-youngest kid is the younger brother of one of the nine-year-olds on the team.)

She's wayyy into it, though, and in fact opted to delay going to the annual back to school ice cream social at her elementary school in order to go to taekwondo. We went to the ice cream social late, and didn't get home until half an hour past bedtime, thus the quick cell-phone photo-of-the-day. And the quick collapse for Daddy once she finally goes to sleep...

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We spent most of Saturday at a taekwondo tournament-- the AAU Adirondack Championship, or some permutation of those words. This was held in the gym over at Hudson Valley Community College, and was fairly big:
...if you're a first-grader in Niskayuna, anyway. We've got 10-15 elementary school kids who are supposed to descend upon our house a bit before lunchtime. Morituri te salutamus...
SteelyKid's second-grade class is doing a "Zoom Time" thing where the kids make short presentations to the class about one of their interests. It's basically an expanded show-and-tell, with fifteen minutes for talking, and five for "questions and compliments."
I feel a little bad that I'm doing two photo-of-the-day posts in a row that are just pictures of SteelyKid, but my day today was dominated by a taekwondo tournament down in Duanesburg, SteelyKid's first actual competition. And she got second place: