Sensei Dennis

It's still bring-a-friend week at Taekwondo, and tonight, Dennis ended up as assistant teacher to 3 of his friends. He was so funny standing beside his teacher, facing his group. When Mr. Sean would explain something, Dennis would strike a teacher pose and wag one finger at his friends, as if to emphasize the point. He was a cute little instructor, that's for sure.

The groundhog has predicted 6 more weeks of winter. Dennis was sad and asked me to pray to God and ask him if spring could come early. I told him he was welcome to pray himself, and he said "I did, Mom, I just wanted you to pray it too." I also told him that the county's peach crops need lots more cold hours if we're to have peaches this year, so all those farmers are praying for cold weather to come again. He seemed a little concerned but still wants spring to come now. I wouldn't mind a snow day, myself. This hasn't been much of a winter.

Tonight at the gym, his swimming skills increased tenfold. He found a plastic stick like toy and asked me what it was. I explained that it was a diving stick, that the object is to swim down and collect it from the bottom of the pool. Naturally he wanted to try it. We submerged the stick on the lowest step, and he pretended to be a Rescue Diver. We (Gran and I) had to call him and sound an alert, and he would splash into the water and swim and grab the stick. He did it many, many times, and each time he would hold it up triumphantly before tossing it in again and scrambling up to the edge of the pool and pretending to nap as he waited for the next rescue call to come in. He did great, and as an added bonus, fell asleep tonight very easily and even admitted to his own tiredness!