Kinoshita Family: Nathans Big Day

Today was all about Nathan, and he loved it! We started the day with him receiving an award for a patriotic original piece of artwork, fancy talk for winning a patriotic coloring contest. His school put on a remembrance assembly today inviting the local veterans, police, fire, military and the Mayor. Nathan's picture was picked out of all of the 1st graders and he received an award for it, presented by the Mayor, which he loved! He said he has never been that close to a Mayor and was really nervous. He said he had to keep telling himself he could do it. We were so proud of him. He takes pride in coloring inside of the lines and using different colors to accent buildings and things so it was nice that he was recognized. After all the football practices/games that Kylee has had I think he was feeling a little left out so I think the praise from today helped.

Then tonight he went to his first ever Karate class. His stomach was a wreck the whole way there. Once he got in the class he loved it. He got to punch the stand up punching bags, and break a plastic plate in half...there were seams that it broke at. We signed him up through the city for a 6 or 7 week course to see if he likes it, if he does we will keep him going. Since he was asking how to earn the colored belts I think he liked it!

Here is the Mayor giving a speech about September 11th.

Here is Nathan walking up to receive his award. This is the point he said where he started telling himself he could handle it.

The lady to the left is his Principle congratulating him. The Mayor is on the right prepared to hand over his certificate.

All of the winners. Nathan looks so proud in this picture. Nathan and the girl on his left won for coloring, the older two girls won for poetry and there is a young man at the microphone that wrote an essay about 9/11 that brought tears to my eyes. He did such a great job.