Karate what?!?!?!

Weston’s school offers martial arts after school a couple of days and week and he was anxious to get enrolled.  He got his cute uniform and shirt and then we hadn’t heard much about it except that he was promoted to white belt with 3 yellow stripes a few months ago.  I admit I have never been to one of his practices because I have never really wanted to take Lucy and James and sit in a gym for an hour trying to wrangle them.  I assumed they were doing all the normal martial arts things one would deem appropriate to teach a 5 year old.  I was wrong.  Wes come home a few weeks ago with this awesome sparring gear.  SPARRING GEAR!!!!!!   I think this means that he is sparring other kids!  I found this alarming but Wes assured me by say “don’t worry Mom it’s just fighting with friends.”  I think I am going to have to make sure I check out one of these practices but he sure is cute in his fighting gear.