patrick participated in his school spelling bee representing his class (as maggie did the year before - go spelling!) sadly, he got a bit overly confident and got out on a common word he could spell in his sleep (spell - usually), but that's okay. patrick kept counting the remaining people and so he says he came in 7th. :) we were very proud of him for participating and for practicing all kinds of arcane words prior to the spelling bee - who knew it would be 'usually' that doomed him...? good job paddo!
