After the Friday field trip, I went home just to take a short break watching a TV program before heading back to school for pick up.  Then it was also time for martial arts.  This was the testing week and Logan just got enough class credits to be eligible.  I was glad that I was off on this day to watch the event.  The testing this time was easy; the kids who were qualified were placed on the front row and they did the moves as a group instead of individually.  The good thing was that the Master was the one, among other instructors, who critiqued Logan, and he gave Logan some great advice.  He said Logan’s moves were great and he looked like a purple belt out there.  He wanted Logan to work on more energy in general, to be louder and be more assertive.  Those were the things we often want Logan to improve on. 

    On a side note, Connor was short by ONE class to make the testing.  He was quite sad about it.  When they were changing into the suit before class, Stuart found Connor almost in tears in his room.  He wanted to move up to the sophomore class with Logan.  What we should have done was watching the boys’ class credits more closely the couple of weeks prior to the testing week to prevent this from happening.  So to make Connor hopeful and also not to have the boys in two different classes for convenience, we decided that we will pay for an private testing for Connor when he meets the requirement.