Winning

On Monday, as usual, I was picking the kids up from school when Calista got into the car beaming.  She was so excited to tell me that she had won a book from a visiting author that day.  Laura Martin author of Edge of Extinction The Art Plan was visiting their school to talk about writing , etc.  The gym was filled with the third and fourth grade classes, 200+ kids along with teachers.  The author was giving away two books that day for answering dinosaur trivia.  For the second question, Calista knew the answer so she raised her hand to talk in front of the whole gym of people.  She was not called on first, but lucky for her the first kid did not answer correctly. So she she was called on to try.  She knew the answer and was brave enough to raise her hand and talk! Her bravery paid off, she won the book! She was so excited and started reading it immediately that evening.  We are so proud of her, knowing this is something that is hard for people to do without selective mutism to do let alone one with SM. She continues to surprise us!