Beachin'; Part 2

While the girls were off furthering their education, Christian enriched his board talents and community awareness.


He had a private surf instructor, who also happened to look like a Reef model.  She worked at the coffee shop next to my nail salon, so he coincidentally spent a lot of time there.

 

 

He took private skateboarding lessons and totally nailed maneuvering around the bowl!

 

 

He volunteered at the animal shelter and almost convinced me to take all of the animals home.

 

 

 

Backside 360 Nollie

I don't really know what the title of this post means.  It just sounds good and is somehow related to the theme here - skateboarding.
Christian went back to sk8 ( <--- I get quadruple cool points if I use that spelling) camp just like he did a few years ago. 

 

Shane picked him up twice.  The first time, he asked CK if he wanted to go eat.  Poor CK fell right into Shane's trap and said "yes".  As Shane pulled up to Redneck Heaven, he asked "Have your parents ever taken you here before?"  HECK NO should've been how CK responded.  I got a Facebook notification saying I'd been tagged in a photo...

Shane said "Someone gets shy when they're served food by half-naked women".

I later explained to Christian that they were all about to go swimming.

 

At the end of the week, we headed to the hood (also known as Dallas) to see D-Town Throwdown. 

 

The next day, they wanted to make sure they looked super duper cool.

Who doesn't look way awesome in AVIATORS?!

 

 

 

Tearing It Up

Christian was working on some new moves over the weekend. 

He also had his first day of skateboard camp today.  He is definitely the youngest kid there.  But, the instructor said he did awesome.  He even got some high-fives when he was leaving.  Big guy!

When we got home, he showed me a little of what he had been working on.  Though, camp can't take all the credit.  Good ol' Uncle Shane showed him how to do an olley last Friday.  CK just happened to master it today.

I have a 6 year old.

We took Christian to Grapevine Mills Mall a few weeks ago to let him ride his skateboard at the X-Games Park. He can easily go down steep driveways and little ramps at home, even attempting a few tricks here and there, so I figured he could do the easy stuff. He was all ready with his board, hat, shoes, helmet, and pads. But, he wasn't big enough. The age limit is 6. Christian kept telling me "But I SIX, Mama!"... but his height and lack of verbs in that sentence were dead give-aways.

I have mentioned this before, but have to remind everyone that I have no idea where he learned to love this sport. Ryan plays baseball and soccer, my dad played baseball, my brothers played baseball and football... I took dance. Luckily, two of my bros know how to skateboard so they teach Christian as he goes. He was so excited!

All excited and ready to go

Poor guy.

I felt so bad for him. He was so pumped! BAM, major let-down.