Daisy Girl Scout

Sophia was very excited about joining Girl Scouts when she entered school. They have a Daisy troop for kindergarten girls. There was a troop meeting in the evenings but nights are still so hard in terms of Sophia being exhausted that we wanted her to join an after school troop. No one stepped up to lead it. Steve and I finally decided that we would do it together. We had our first meeting in October. We have had three meetings so far. We have eight girls in our troop.

They have begun earning their petals. They are learning what it means to be helpful and caring. They love the troop meetings and the activities that are done within our troop and with other troops in the council. It is so nice to see the girls learn how to become leaders in positive ways.

We have a troop mascot which will travel home with the girls in between meetings. The girls all can't wait to have their month with Daisy Bear.
Steve and I are glad to be leading the troop.

November update

We always start November off with a bang. Sophia turned six years old on November 1st. I can't believe how quickly she is growing. I think back to when we brought her home. She was just learning to crawl, saying a word or two and totally dependent on us. Now just over five years later she is independent, active, smart, caring and funny. She wakes up every morning signing. Her creativity blows me away. She is kindhearted and well-liked. There isn't a day that goes by that I am not thankful for being her mother.

We celebrated Sophia's birthday a few days early with her grandparents. She got a wonderful horse and doll which she now plays with all the time.
We kept the birthday morning tradition this year. We greeted Sophia with a balloon, a card, cupcake and her gift from China. This year she got a song book from China.
We asked her what she wanted for dinner to celebrate her birthday and she wanted to go to Bertucci's.

Sophia had her birthday party at Jump Zone. She had a blast. She got her first Barbie dolls and now loves playing with them. The Barbie dolls always spend time at the stable and hiking! She has very down to earth Barbies.


Sophia continues to play in her room at night before she goes to bed. Tonight she had a tea party and then fell asleep on the floor. Noelle attended the tea party and fell asleep right next to Sophia.
We celebrated Thanksgiving with Grandma Beadle, Grandma Bev and PopPop. Sophia brought some of her school work to PopPop. Katie spent Thanksgiving with us. As I said before, we have a lot to be Thankful for.
We had an active Thanksgiving weekend. We went for a hike on Friday to work off all the delicious food we ate. We also went ice skating on Saturday. Katie only went once before but she did great. Sophia did a great job for her first time. Steve and I managed too even though it has been years since we have been in skates.

Sept/Oct update

The fall was very busy and lots of fun.

Sophia is really enjoying school. She is learning a lot and comes home talking about her friends and the thinks she is learning. She is still exhausted at the end of the day but she always wakes up singing.

We visited Grandma Barb in Sept. We always have fun when we visit. We had a yard sale and got rid of some of Grandma and Auntie Linda's stuff. It was fun. Sophia came home with a bunch of costume jewelry. How glamorous.
Katlyn and Sophia had a sleep over. The next day we went to the horse center and Sophia showed Katlyn around.
October was filled with all Fall activities. We went pumpkin picking, apple picking and through a corn maze.

The horse center had a Halloween Party and Sophia won a costume contest. Sophia was a horse, of course.
We had a blast trick or treating and at the school party.