04 May 2006

Current and Future Events....

First of all I just have to brag about our Izzy. She won 1st place in a Literature Competition the theme was: I wonder why... and here's a submission:

I Wonder Why My Brother is Disabled?
by (mi nina preciosa)
I wonder why he looks like that? Why couldn't he move?
I wonder why his arms are pasted to his side? I'll always wonder why.
Why can't he walk or crawl?
I wonder why his legs are up? Won't they go down?
I wonder why God made him this way.
But even if he only rolls, and barely moves his arms I'll always love my little brother, Louie Morales IV.

On Monday, she with a group of kids from her school competited in an acedemic competition against 5-8th graders from schools from the surrounding school districts. Her group took First place.

On Tuesday afternoon, she competited in the spelling bee. The first round was a cake walk; her word was juice. The second round seemed to be more difficult as 15 students before her misspelled guarantee. Everyone in the gym yelled and chilled when our Izzy spelled the word correctly. The 3rd round was cinnamon. 4th round - mispronounce with only 10 kids left. Then it was rhythm. Followed by lieutenant unfortunately only one person got this right and she was deemed the 1st place winner; the play off for 2nd and 3rd place continue. All 3 missed subsequent and rendevoux but the 2nd place winner is the only one to spell neutral correctly. So Izzy and another little girl continued to compete for 3rd place. The both missed achemic; Izzy gets ancestor correctly but the litle girl misspells her word. Izzy wins 3rd place!!!!!
It was so exciting, my stomach was in knots with her. She did so well. I can't tell you all how proud of her we are.