A Transition

Last night was a big night for Evan:

He was invited to the adult black belt class to exchange his youth black belt for an adult one:

He has been training with the adults for a while now (mostly because of his size), but he was really excited to make it official--especially since you usually have to wait until you are 16. I got a little teary watching these adults he's trained with celebrate and spar with him:

I always love watching my boys do their thing, and it's been a long time since I have been able to:

And then it was official:

I haven't seen him practice since Brad got his black belt, and he has gotten so much better. He was holding his own with much higher ranked black belts, and I loved seeing him smile and joke around with his village.