HaYAH!

With the addition of one black stripe on his novice Tae Kwon Do belt, Joey's well on his way to a black belt -- obviously a requirement for any boy with two younger sisters.

Here he is after his test today, receiving his stripe that is, in fact, made of electrical tape. Is his belt no longer machine washable??

Joey and his Tae Kwon Do buddy, James, are goofy and inseparable. Joey loves James because a) he has the same name as a Thomas train, b) he loves to play Super Spy after Tae Kwon Do every week, and c) James thinks Joey is hilarious.

Joey and James performed the X-Block portion of their test together. When Joey told me the name of these moves, he called them "sex blocks." Joey's the one on the left, shouting out "HaYAH!" like a future Army Ranger.

He may look intense, and he may have the most exuberant and loudest "haYAH!" in the bunch, but he's definitely not the toughest. He limped out of the studio after his test, convinced that he'd broken his foot on the paddles he was kicking.

One small stripe, one giant wound.