Her first group sleepover party

Leanna's at a Tropical Fun sleepover at the Reading Museum tonight with Girl Scouts. I'm wondering how she's doing and if she's bonding with the girls. As I was telling my sister tonight, Leanna says all the girls at Girl Scouts are her friends, but she doesn't have any close friends. I think this is mostly because she started late this year (they forgot to call the girls from Leanna's old troop to tell them that their troop was disbanded and that they could join this one now). And she's missed a few meetings when Tom couldn't get home in time. Plus since the troop was already established, most of the girls were already friends from last year. So I'm hoping something like this will help bring her closer, feel more like a part of the group.

Leanna was looking forward to this, aside from a personal issue that was worrying her. She's not afraid of sleeping over though. They get to do all kinds of fun stuff-a pizza party, make aquariums, hula skirts, paper flowers, a book on fish and learn a dance from Hawaii. I'm missing her a little tonight. But at the same time, I'm looking forward to hearing all about it tomorrow and seeing how excited she'll be. Sometimes it amazes me this this is the same baby I gave birth to nearing eight years ago. It really went by so quickly!

Halloween Parade

Leanna marched in our Halloween parade today. And this year I made it in plenty of time to catch her! Although, let me tell you, I could very easily have missed her if I wasn't paying attention. There aren't as many people marching in parades anymore, and there aren't as many people coming to watch either!!

Her troop's theme was "Have a ball with Girl Scouts" and the girls all painted their t-shirts as a beach ball, basketball, or soccer ball. Leanna's the soccer ball with blond braids. (It was tough to get her picture as Tom was darting for candy in front of me and when he wasn't there was a man standing right in front of Leanna! We yelled her name and she was embarrassed and mouthed "Stop!" to us.