Badge Night at Daisys

Lorelei listening during the short ceremony.

Lorelei reading what was written on her baggie of badges.

The girls doing their friendship circle thing at the end of the meeting.

Tonight Lorelei received a whole bunch of badges that she's earned since beginning with scouts this year. She received her Pumpkin Patch badge, Juliette Low badge and Fire Dept. badge. She also earned four of the petals towards completing her flower: light green, yellow, dark pink and orange. She was really, really excited that she "won" new badges for her vest. Thank goodness I have a month before the next meeting to figure out how to sew them on!

Girl Scout Swap

Back in October when we were visiting Wisconsin, Lorelei missed out on an opportunity to do a Daisy Swap. Now, I'm not entirely sure the point of swaps, other than to create interaction from girls in different troops. Regardless, she was given a swap to create, but we weren't there so she didn't get to trade with a girl from another troop.

Tonight, after realizing we had this swap still sitting in our "things we didn't do while in Wisconsin" pile, we finally put her little swap together and pinned it on her Daisy vest. She didn't get to trade like the other girls, but at least she still got to participate. And maybe at some point down the road she'll run into a fellow scout in with a swap to share.

And yes, she's in her pj's. After their bath this morning, both kids decided that they wanted to wear pj's the rest of the day and I can't say I blame them!

Catch Up Post

Wow, where have we been? The last month has been hectic to say the least.

Lorelei still has cheerleading 3 nights a week and then one or two games each weekend. Pluse we have Daisy Scouts a few times a month. She still enjoys both, but boy is it wearing to keep up with her schedule!

Caleb has decided that he's interested in giving Boy Scouts another go after our botched attempt when he was in 1st grade. I'm so excited about this! I think it will be a really great activity for him. He'd also like to take swimming lessons at some point. I'm hoping we can do that for him.

After living here an entire year I finally have proper identification (ooooppps!) so we were able to go to the library tonight for the kids and I to get new library cards. They enjoyed the experience immensely and sat down to start reading their books while I looked for something new to read. They also read the entire way home.


Caleb has finally started getting into age appropriate chapter books. Bionicles and Phineas & Ferb top his list. The library doesn't carry the latter, but I did find Bionicles and that satisfied him so much he grabbed four. Lorelei is able to read a lot of simple books now. I'm proud to have two great readers.

Over Labor Day weekend George and I took the kids down into the city to get to see Chicago. They loved the train ride down and just the whole experience.



Lorelei brought home her first spelling test in September with a 100% marked in red at the top. Of course this hung on the fridge for at least a week in recognition of her achievement. Both kids are doing VERY well in school this year.


Caleb has taken an interest in drawing and writing little comic books. This was the first: "Army Man Caleb. The Original Story of Army Man vs. Money Man". They are really cute and the most recent one even includes his little sister as a trusty side kick.



We brought home some new furry friends. Because with two dogs and an odd assortment of fish we didn't have have enough critters. Two female hamsters named Rosie and Rhino. Rhino was named after the hamster/gerbil in Bolt. Not like they know the difference.



And last but not least...



We got a little goofy last night and snapped about 25 photos. My children? Are weird, strange and quite a lot adorable.

Daisy Scouts

Lorelei with her first Daisy Scout project.

Lorelei getting her Daisy pin.

Lorelei getting her Trifoil pin.

Lorelei getting her Daisy vest.

Yes, it's official! My little social climber is now a Daisy Scout! She was super excited to join some of her friends from school who are in this particular troop. Luckily, Daisy's meets on a day of the week when we don't have cheerleading and it's very close to home so she can be dropped off and Caleb won't be forced to endure another Lorelei activity. Tonight I stayed specifically to get pictures of her getting her vest and pins. So far, she loves it! I think it's definitely something she'll want to do for at least a couple more years.