Tomorrow Cameron will compete in the 2012 Scripps Howard Spelling Bee at the Highlands Latin School here in Louisville. The winner of this bee will go to the district bee in March, and the winner of that bee will go on to the national spelling bee in the spring.
Cameron has already made me proud. He has studied so hard and I'm so excited to see him up on the stage tomorrow. This will be his third year in a row...the first without Caleb. The spelling bee is only for grades 3-8. But Caleb has done a lot to help his brother "train" for the bee. And I've learned quite a bit by helping Cameron, so I'm sure Caleb has too!
These are tough words! He was spelling - linguistically - vehemence - astrophysicist - circumlocution, and the word that Matt couldn't even pronounce - dramaturgy. Thankfully we have dictionary.com and that robot lady to say the words for us! Cameron has also relied on the pink Vitamin Water named "Focus"... He's drank a lot of that lately.
Making the decision to compete in a spelling be is a pretty big accomplishment for any child. A child with ADHD and Aspergers Syndrome... I think is a little bigger. (wink) It has been exhausting and emotionally draining for this mom, but it's something that he wants to do. (Believe me, there were days I begged him to sit this year out!) But he's doing it...I'm a proud bee mom!!
And I'll be so relieved tomorrow afternoon... Whew!
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