Our first Daisy meeting and first trophey

Last night was our first official Daisy meeting. I am sure that I was more nervous that Anna. Believe it or not I was never in the Girl Scouts. I know it seems strange to me as well. We discussed what the troop has planned for this year and talked about possible outing and events. I really do like the program. It has a good philosophy about helping and caring for others while taking responsibility for your own behavior and actions.

We did a little craft. Anna's did not quite turn out the way I had planned but this is her craft not mine.

 

 

 

The other day as I was getting ready to pick Anna up from school I got a phone call telling me that Anna had won an award. I quickly texted Gerard to tell him that he had to take Anna to the ceremony because I had to work. Well as luck would have it I was put on call. Apparently, Anna drew or colored a poster for fire prevention week that won first prize. I have not seen the poster yet but I am so proud of her. When I asked her about the poster she looks at me with a blank look. She has no clue what I am talking about. I can not wait to see the poster.

 

 

In other news we have been reading, reading and more reading every night. I have made multiple trips to the library for new books. I really and trying my best to read with her everyday for at least 30 minutes. Some days it is longer. I am really happy with her progress. I really feel like waiting to enroll her into kindergarten was honestly the best decision I have made.

 

 

I will say that Anna is struggling with missing her old teacher. I am kind of glad to see this because she had been Anna's teacher for three years. I worried that keeping her in the same class for all three years may be a problem but I think it was actually good for Anna. So that is the update for now. Once I get the poster I will share it. I am so proud of her. 

Another blast from the past...pumpkin picking

This was the weekend that Gerard had 4 days off in a row. He has a very strange schedule in my opinion where he works 5 days off for one, works 5 days off for two and works 5 days off for 4. All of this from a person who NEVER works the same days of the week ever. I actually like it but him not so much.

Well this was his 4 day weekend. Friday was great because we both got to take Anna to school. Gerard and I had lunch out together. Saturday was a wash. I got upset early in the day and could not get myself together for the rest of it, then I was off to work. Sunday afternoon they woke me up and we decided that pumpkin picking was the plan for the day.

We decided to go to the same farm that we went to when Anna was first home. I showed her the pictures that I had posted here of the blog (thank you blog). She laughed and wanted to recreate them. So we did our best. I was surprised how beautiful the pumpkins were this year.

 

Conte Farms 2013

 

 

Conte Farms, September 2009

 

 

 

 

In other news Gerard made it to I am not sure how many Facebook pages on Sunday. He totally photo bombed a group of 20-30 years olds who were out picking pumpkins. I was laughing too hard to snap a picture myself. He stood out like a sore thumb because Gerard is neither tattooed nor pierced. I have a few friends who have both but it is not something that we ever got into ourselves. I think we must be getting old because I had to explain what a photo bomb was to him...sigh.

 

Tradition!

After downloading my camera the other day I realized that I did not blog about our yearly August tradition. Pictures at the old school. The first year Anna was home I took her and my mother to the one room school house were she went to school as a child. The beach is just up the street so I do really enjoy going there.

I think it is amazing to see how much she has grown.

 

 

August 2009

 

 

 

August 2010

 

August 2011

 

 

August 2012

 

 

August 2013

 

 

Indian Summer

It seems that I am downloading my camera less and less these days. The other day the weather was so beautiful. We decided to head to the park. Well when we got there we were on only people at the park. I am fun but it the park is so much better when other kids are there to play with. So we ended up at the beach instead. The water was a bit cool but that did not stop my girl. She chatted up some surfers and told them that she also had a surf board. She keeps asking when she can learn to surf. Well since neither Gerard or I surf I guess it will be when you can swim strongly and I find someone to teach you.

Here are the pictures for that day.

 

 

I do love Indian summer!