Sawyer's Activities...

We have started to put Sawyer in gymnastics and Ta Kwon Do this year hoping to get out some of his energy and learn something in the process. With Gymnastics, he started in late October.... I was really surprise when we took him because I thought he would be wide open and they would not be able to keep up with him. BUT, he pouted and would go limp and would not listen to the teachers and would run the other direction and not do what they asked of him. He steadily did a little better but as a parent it is very frustrating to see your child act like that. He is VERY athletic and he just needs some focus and some direction from someone whom can control that. So we decided to put him in Ta Kwon Do. The best decision that we could have done!!! The class is focused on Respect, Focus and Strength. He does do the limp thing in there too, (but I have threaten to put a bow in his hair if he does not stop) and MASTER JOE is very direct with him and gets in his face and makes Sawyer look him in the eye! And if he does not look him in the eye and stand up, he starts whining like a baby and tells Sawyer he needs to be a BIG BOY not a little baby. Sawyer jumps right up then!! Just in the 5 classes he has taken up there, it is amazing the difference it has made!!! Poor Braxton has to sit on the sidelines and take it all in. In fact, Braxton would do better at listening because he sits over on the side, Yelling "Yes Sir" and then he bows and kicks and punches. Much better then Sawyer, however they will not let him take the class for 6 more months.

Anyway, today we had Sawyer's last day at gymnastics and they had a SHOW! He really did well today. JoJo and Scott came to watch and he was WIDE open.

This is Sawyer pouting and dropping on the ground at the beginning as every other child ran around him playing!!!

Sawyer and some of the kids in his group!!!

Sawyer showing off his cartwheels and handstands during his floor routine!

Sawyer during his bar routine!!! He was so excited to show us what he could do!

He go a medal for doing so well, and he could not wait to run up to me and show me his medal!!
All the kids in his group making funny faces!

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Sawyer and Master Joe,

Sawyer was so excited to be able to put his name on his outfit, he didn't even want me to wash it because he thought his name would wash off!

Sawyer standing at attention with Master Joe. YES SIR! Sawyer learning his Ta Kwon Do moves... Ahh Yaaa!

Sawyer Kicking.... He was so happy when he thought he had kicked so hard that Master Joe went flying back on the mat!!!
This was Sawyer kicking the board.... and boy was that boy ecstatic when he kicked it right in half and it went flying everywhere!!!