A Stroll Through The Years!

Recently I’ve taken pictures from years gone by and more current and added text to them for T. We are going to have them printed on thick poster board so he can hang them on his bedroom wall once we revamp it. He wants to get rid of the bunks and get a full or queen sized bed. He informed us recently that he’s not a little kid anymore and wants a big kid bedroom. #changes #growinguptoofast 

Home Sweet Home

We drove home today after watching almost all of T’s teammates fight. Left Fort Lauderdale at 1 and got home around 1:15am with driving through rain, making fuel stops, and food stops. Made pretty good time. So thankful to have someone I can switch off with when driving those kind of distances. Goodnight all. Hope everyone had a very happy and safe holiday.  

Fight Day Results

T lost second match of fighting  25-19. T didn’t listen like he should have to his coach the first two rounds of the second match and started really listening the third round and just about came back and beat his opponent. He needs to really work on listening to his coach and doing what his coach tells him to do. Had he listened to his coach the first two rounds like he did the third round he would have won the second match. He would have still had a match to go to get to medal rounds. So no medal this time but another hard lesson learned. Now for more training and getting ready for Cadets next year. 

Here’s how T’s bracket went:

Fight Day

T’s in holding getting ready for the day with his coaches. Pray for God to help him do his best today as he competes. Going to be a full day with many of our kids fighting today so say a prayer for the team as well. 

Just saw T’s bracket and as usual he has a tough brack. Just pray. Pray for him to stay calm, have good energy, and fight his best. 

Happy 4th!!!

Weigh-in

T made weight. He was 63.2. On our scale I think he was 63lbs so their scale is a .2 off from ours. He’s so serious when he weighs in though. 

This is him waiting in line for weigh in to begin. 

Here he is officially weighing in. He was so happy to have that done and over with. 

AAU Picture of T

This was taken just before T did his forms and it was taken by AAU staff. 

Workout

Getting a workout at the Y while I rode the bike to get my workout. Otherwise he’d be sitting being bored🤣🤣🤣. He likes the workout equipment.

My “Ham”. 

Pictures with his Team Members who medaled and Coaches

Master Wasiu, T, and Grand Master Tadjou (Gold Medal Olympic Coach from the Ivory Coast). 

Forms 2019 AAU Nationals

6 competitors in T’s bracket. Double elimination. T brings home a bronze medal 🥉 his first time out doing forms on a National level.

Russell the AAU Raccoon. 

T with Master Calvin his stretcher. 



T’s name in Chinese lettering on his competition belt in honor of GMaster Cann.