District Spelling Bee

Today was the district spelling bee for grades 1-8. It was held at Liberty, so of course we had a much shorter drive than the families from Yakima. The school from Bothell did not come because Snoqualmie Pass is once again closed. This time all of the passes across the cascades are closed, so this sounds like as good a time as ever to secede and throw off the shackles of oppression the "Birkenstock wearing lefties" have had us under lo these many years. :)

The spelling bee was pretty cool. They had two practice rounds, where I was allowed to take the picture of Gavin you see here. When the actual

competition began, he received the word "about". It was very cute to see the look of relief on his face when he answered it correctly. He made his mom and dad very proud today.

The district spelling bee was only open to the top 3 spellers from each school. He was able to go with his two best friends, Matthew Ng and Matthew McClure. Matthew Ng came in 2nd place for 2nd grade, and Matthew McClure was the winner for the 1st grade competition. Gavin was a bit frustrated when he exited the competition at the word "weave". Nevertheless, he has now advanced further in spelling bee competitions than either his mom or dad, and we are extremely proud.

This coming monday is the speech meet. He came in first place for his class and now is trying to advance to the next round in Spokane. Dad is cutting out of work for a while on monday morning so he can be at the school and watch.