Today we went to see Auntie Choo do her grading for her shodan, that's first dan black belt in Aikido. Since her grading was in the afternoon, and we're down to one car, we sent daddy to work in the morning so mommy have a car.
The day went by with baby napping, short nap in the morning which gave mommy the opportunity to hang up the laundry and then a long nap in the afternoon, which mommy joined you for the first half and then waited for you to wake up. As the time got nearer to when we were suppose to go you were still sleeping, by the time you woke up after an almost 4 hours nap, we had ten minutes to change diaper and get to the dojo.
We got there in time and saw Auntie Choo do her grading as we sat at the back. She was nervous and rushed through some of her moves. We even watched Uncle Noh and Uncle Chiong's grading. When mommy used to do aikido these were the people I trained with all those years ago, and I felt it was fitting we were there to witness their achievement to getting their black belts, these guys trained really hard to get it, and they say once you get your shodan, that's when the real training begins.
After Auntie Choo did her bit, she broke rank and came over to us as we sat at the back of the room. During the whole time we were there you were more interested what was on the notice board that was behind us then what was going on on the mat. Mommy thought you'd be interested to see people being slammed and flipped on the mat, maybe because it was all so quiet and serious concentration going on. There were quite a number of people watching the grading and they were all aikidokais of various age, they only realised we were there when you coughed! I bet you there were probably surprised to hear a baby's cough in the dojo. Apart from that, you were really well behaved while we were at the dojo, no fussing at all, I guess it helped that we sat in line with the fan which kept us cool as it was a hot afternoon.
After an hour of being there we left the dojo and headed over to atok and nenek's house, as they were flying off that evening with Uchu to Jakarta for the next few days. So mommy had taken leave to take care of you.
Mommy just realised us going to the dojo was the first time mommy and baby had gone somewhere just the two of us, usually it's with daddy everytime we go out. So most probably they'll be future jaunts for the both of us. Wonder where can we go next....
Love,
Mommy
Dear DD, auntie Choo was very pleased and encouraged to see you and Mommy at the dojo. Thank you. It was really the best support you could give me and I am glad that you were part of it, although you maybe too young to remember. Auntie Choo was successful in her grading and will now begin to train in aikido. I hope that one day you too will train in this wonderful martial art. Auntie Choo is waiting :)
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