We recently enrolled Dillen in Karate and last week, her first class, she was given an assignment to earn her white belt this week: Do a good deed without being asked. I never asked her to do something but I did prod her to think about what she wanted to do during the week that led up to today. She did good things off and on but never thought any were good enough to earn her white belt. It was about 15 minutes before we had to leave for class today and I asked her if she had something to tell her Sensai to earn her belt. She said, "Well, can you tell me?" I said, "No, Sweetie. This is something you have to come up with. You've done several really great things all on your own this week. Maybe you could pick one of those?" Dillen said, "Yeah, well, I know I did... maybe I could just tell him a whole bunch and that would equal one big thing." I had to laugh. She's so thoughtful and so darn cute. It was hilarious because for the next 10 minutes all she did was help me: put on my shoes, get my keys, open the door, offer to hold my purse, etc.

When we got to the studio (Roxy and Sean in tow) Dillen's Sensai asked her to tell all of her classmates what she did to earn her belt. It's difficult to hear on the movie attached but she did share several "good deeds" she did without prompting this week. (Sean's pictures below, as well.)

As you will see from the pictures below, she takes Karate VERY seriously. She is very considerate to her (ALL-boy) classmates and treats her Sensai with a lot of respect. At one point, she even turned to me to ask me to be quite (putting her finger to her mouth - picture below) when I was trying to keep Roxy quite.

One of Roxy the Rock Star for good measure. ;0)