Well its been a pretty big week for my little pisspot. Thursday evening we went down to the Signature Grand for the annual fine arts awards banquet as presented by the good folks at American Heritage...in other words...it sure wasn't free, that's for sure. Kellie was among the band kids being honored for being "all-county" in band....and....for receiving a grade of "superior" on the flute. It was a virtual yenta-fest as all the high school girls were out, doing the whole kiss on the cheek--fake show of friendship thing. What was interesting was some of the outfits. Holy cripes, I haven't seen that much skin since the last Adult Video Awards. Let's just say that when I was in high school, I didn't see that sort of skin from the likes of Sherri Spilseth, Kari Beyer & Debbie Layman. But I digress.
The big surprise of the evening, and no it wasn't how lame the chicken marsala was, would've been Kellie being presented with the award as "Most Improved" band member. She was glowing with pride and it was pretty good stuff---ya know, proud mom and dad...that whole thing. Andy told me that he was bored out of his mind, to which I told him that he needed to be checking out all the talent in the room.
Man! Will I be happy when he finally starts getting into women!
Today....we went back to the Broward County Convention Center (where the room temperature wasn't 50 degrees this time) for the regional tae kwon do tournament.
Andy competes tomorrow, but today was Kellie's first appearence in the sparring competition. She lost 7-2, but she was awesome. I told her that the important thing was that she:
1) Didn't cry
2) Wasn't shut out.
I told her that I didn't care if she won or not. She tried really hard against a girl that was a full head taller than her and gave it her all. She also managed to score two points in the last 30 seconds of the match, so she wasn't shut out totally. I felt this was important because it wouldn't leave her feeling that she had done horrible.
This gives her something to build on and will help her in the next tournament.
Amazingly, she finished 2nd out of 3 girls, which made her "technically" eligible for the junior Olympics. (No, really! The JUNIOR OLYMPICS!) That tournament will take place in June in San Antonio, Texas. We told her afterwards that even though she was technically eligible that she wouldn't be going. She has only been on her school's traveling squad for about a month, and this was her first tournament.
I told her that if she had entered a tournament that had 10 girls in it, and had finished in 2nd place, then I would've figured out a way for her to go. I just don't think that showing up is a reason to get an invitation to the junior Olympics, which is basically what would've happened.
That being said, she was totally awesome and I was very proud of her. What a pisser she is. This whole parenting thing does have its moments.
Later,
Jeff
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