Siope the Speller

Siope made it to the spelling bee final again!!! He won his class spelling bee and went on to compete against the top 5th graders. Once he won his class competition we knew he would be progressing to the final, we just didn't know when that would be. Every day he would come home and I would ask what was going on with the championship. He had no idea- had received no updates. Last Friday I get a phone call waking me up. It was Siope's teacher telling me that Siope would be competing in the championship spelling bee THAT DAY. It was a little frustrating because that meant that Siope would've found out about it that day as well when he got to school. So I went in to his school that day feeling intimidated. Neo happened to be in town and the 2 older boys are out of school so we all headed in to the multi purpose room to cheer on our bud. The competition started and the spellers slowly started to drop off as the words got harder and harder to spell. Siope ended up making it to the final 2! It was so exciting to see him compete. It was clear that the final 2 contestants were the strongest of the bunch. They went head to head for quite some time and in the end... Siope took 2nd place. I am so proud of this little guy!!!! His curiosity is constantly driving his urge to learn more. I often find myself asking him for help on spelling words when I get stuck on a text or email. He is our smarty pants and we are excited to continue to cheer him on on whatever other adventures he decides to take on.

MDW 2016

Ti was home for Memorial Day weekend this year. We thought about traveling, but the boys had basketball games so we ended up staying in Vegas. Since we all had a long weekend we decided to make the most of it and we took a little staycation. 

View from our room.

The kids wasted no time getting into the pool.

Grilling on Memorial Day.

There was also a basketball court and tennis court which we took full advantage of.