Last week Ana had her first “Lil Dragon” karate class. She has been obsessed with karate ever since we made the mistake of letting her watch The Karate Kid (I have to give it to her, Ralph Macchio can be very persuasive.) She kept talking about karate so when I found the class in the THPRD summer activities guide I thought it would be the perfect opportunity for her to give it a try.

We signed up for the class with Ayden and Owen, who are also obsessed with martial arts (though I suspect, it has less to do with Ralph Macchio).

The teacher allowed us to stay in and watch the first class so we got to observe the “Lil Dragons” in action.

They started warming up with drills.

(My sweet girl reminding me she loves me by blowing me a kiss.)

They did some kicks.

Then did some jumps.

And wrapped up with some stretches.

Ana had a fun time and keeps asking when she gets to go back to class again. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the session progresses. You can see all the pictures here.