Speech Meet

Today I feel so proud of my boy Brendan!!! He placed second in the speech meet. He recited a poem about sea creatures and stood at the front of the room like a pro!! This was very shocking for Bryan and myself. When we signed him up for the speech meet, Brendan was not impressed. He ran up to his room and cried, which is very uncharacteristic of him...and I had to practically drag him to the speech preparation classes. And to encourage him to do his best, my mom told him she would buy him cottage cheese (that's right, cottage cheese, he loves it more than candy, odd, I know...) It was so wonderful to see him stand in the front of all the people and say his poem with confidence and ease. Some of you may wonder why we forced him to do his poem, well, we wanted him to learn that public speaking isn't so bad, and we thought that if we started at a young age, then he would gain confidence. As adults, we all have to speak in front of groups sometimes, and we both find that nerve racking, so that was why we did the speech meet. And the bonus of the whole ordeal...both sets of grandparents were there to watch him get second place (thanks for coming Grandma and Grandpa Sarnia, and Grandma and Grandpa Z, that meant a lot to us!!) Now he gets to advance to the invitational big meet in which he will compete against kids from 6 other schools. Keegan is excited that he gets to go to the "pig meet" (Keegan's words) to watch his big brother!!