Spelling Bee

Alyssa was in her school spelling bee again this year. She qualified to be in the school spelling bee by winning her class spelling bee. This year she was in the senior spelling bee so she was competing against kids all the way up to the 8th grade. Being in 4th grade made her one of the youngest competitors. As a result, we didn't really expect her to go very far. She did amazing. Here she is waiting for the spelling bee to start. She was chosen to go 6th out of 26(or 28 depending on whether you ask Alyssa or Danny).

She made it to the top nine, spelling 6(I think) words correctly. The highlight of the spelling bee was when she was asked to spell the word "mazel tov." Here is a video, but the word has 2 different spellings and she spelled it both ways for the judges. Little smarty pants.

We are so proud of her and openly admit that she can spell better than any of us. We have the feeling that she will have a few more spelling bees in her future. (I think that secretly she hopes to go to the national spelling bee someday.  We'll just have to see.)