Karate Tournament

The end of the karate quarter recently came to an end which means it's tournament time! Hannah competed in two areas, forms and sparring. In the forms competition, she just barely missed a 4th place spot. She did such a great job and had even been called to repeat her form twice. Because she's continuing with Karate, we bought her her own head gear and chest protector today. She was pretty jazzed about that. After the forms competition, the sparring competition was next. She patiently waited through all of the lower colored belts to compete and finally she was sent to the mat in which she would compete. There were four girls in her age group, so it was a for sure thing that she'd get a placing of some sort. The first match it was a quick 3-0 win for Hannah. She sparred again, and I think lost. But the exciting thing was that she placed 2nd!!!The stinky part, was because it was at the end of the tournament, trophies had run out! She came home with no trophy in her hand. But for picture taking purposes, a friend within her karate class who had placed 2nd in her competition lent Hannah her trophy! LOL. We'll have to keep on top of our instructor and she'll eventually get her trophy, but it stinks she didn't come home with one today.Her instructor was very pleased with how Hannah did today. I think with all the practicing and hard work she's poured into her classroom performance, and along with getting older, gave her the confidence to get out there and do well today. She didn't exhibit her normal nervousness self and got out there and acted like she was having fun! And look what it got her, that and all the practicing she's been doing got her! As always following a tournament, Hannah got to choose where we ate dinner. And she chose The Old Spaghetti Factory, where she has recently become attached to favorite. Today she got an adult size meal and ate it all!!!! We had a nice dinner celebrating Hannah's achievement with Gramma and Papa and Gramie, who all came to the tournament to cheer her on!