This Reminds Me

Hannah represented her fifth grade class in the school spelling bee today.  She made it to round 4 by spelling “buffalo,” “pretzel,” and “leotard” correctly, only to trip on “enthusiasm” by omitting the second “s.”

Bending over to use the microphone – that’s very “Woodworth.”

Hannah with her arm around good friend Carly – and some of the other 26 superlative spellers and judges.  The champ correctly spelled “castanet” to win.

What’s so ironic to me:  Hannah is nine ounces in an eight-ounce cup!  If you searched for “enthusiasm” in a picture dictionary, you’d see her smiling face.

The principal promised in her closing remarks that every student would remember the word that tripped him or her.  I turned to the mother next to me and whispered, “pumpkin.”*  She returned “apology.”  We both chuckled. 

Hannah was eighth-to-last to be eliminated, and in my book, that spells “Congratulations!”

*Note to Chris:  Yes, of course I remember you won our fifth grade bee.   Forty years later, I am just beginning to work through the trauma of that wretched “pumkin” blunder…..no, no don’t feel guilty….

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