All right, day after the spelling me, it kind of feels like it was my spelling me I was going to

congratulate you on your on my second place yes and 48 rounds of the spelling bee

so our oldest daughter did of the

school spelling bee. What they do is they have the fourth and fifth grade

classes in the elementary school take like a preliminary test in class and then the top I think

five kids per class weren't there about five kids in fourth and fifth grade qualified for

the school spelling bee. So she competed last year and she did really well, but we learned some things.

She got out on an actually a pretty easy word because we studied I took her through

you know start to finish all of the words and all of the words that she got right

one time we never revisited.

So then about in the middle to the end, we worked and worked and worked on those words for

her fourth grade spelling B competition, and then she went out on the word bomb last year.

She thought that the person meant bomb like bomb explosion.

So she spelled it that way and then got out. And so this year I was like we're

going to be better prepared. And I said if you want if you care. She's like yeah I

really care. So she qualified again. And so we drilled those words like crazy.

We spent hours and hours pouring over not just the end words, but all the beginning in the middle.

And we did some perfect passes where I wanted her to be able to spell every word perfectly.

And then the words that she didn't get we would go over and over

them and create little mind tricks to remember how to spell things and so she showed up to the

spelling bee yesterday and she knew every word and they went 48 rounds

until she just was going too fast. She went a little too fast on the word collius and spelled it

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