Tyra – Page 5 – Andelin Adventures

Tyra’s Bronze award

I got to go with Tyra to the Recognition of Excellence event for Girl Scouts today. All of my Junior Girl Scouts earned their bronze award and received them at this event. The bronze award is kind of a simplified version of the Gold award, which is Girl Scout’s equivalent of the Eagle rank. The bronze is kind of the first stepping stone to the gold. It is a twenty hour service project done as a troop of Juniors. The juniors in my troop chose to have a Locks of Love event as their bronze project.

We got to have a fancy lunch, before the awards were presented. The bronze award had been given to us when we checked in, and when they got to that part in the program, I got to pin it on Tyra’s vest.

After the program, we walked around and looked at all the displays for the girls that earned their Gold awards. There were some amazing project ideas! We also got to have someone take a picture of us together (proof that I was there 😉 ).

Next step, silver award…..when she is a Cadette!

Ronald McDonald House

Several months ago my girl scout juniors decided that for a take action project, they wanted to save pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald house. Then when cookie time came around the troop as a whole decided that we would sell gift of caring cookies for the Ronald McDonald house as well. Today we took the juniors to the Ronald McDonald house to deliver the pop tabs and 150 something boxes of cookies that were donated.

After getting his laundry started, Ronald McDonald himself took us on a tour of the place. It is basically a place for families who have sick hospitalized children, to stay so they don’t have to spend a fortune staying in a hotel while their child is in the hospital. So at the Ronald McDonald house there are hotel like bedrooms, only they don’t have tvs in them. They have a big movie room on the main floor with lots of bean bags and chairs so they can have movie nights. There is a workout room, and a laundry room. There is a big play room, and an outside play area for kids. I thought the play house was awesome:

We ended our tour in the kitchen, which was so awesome. I love all the counter space and the stove top. Groups volunteer to come in to help make meals for the families that are staying at the Ronald McDonald house, but they also have a couple of stoves and microwaves that the families can use to make their own food if they want something different than what is being made.

Excitement

I previously mentioned that when Wendy and John delivered Grandma’s piano, they also brought my parents trampoline. Dad was so excited to get that out of their backyard, but it does make me wonder what the kids are going to do the next time we go to visit them….

I really want to have the trampoline set at ground level in our backyard, and the kids really just want to get it set up. Today I looked out in the backyard and found several of them trying to dig a hole for it.

Girl Scout Cookies Arrive

Girl Scout Cookies arrived this morning! Our troop was one of the first to pick them up this morning. I didn’t go this time because our troop cookie mom complained that we had too many people trying to help last year. That actually worked out though because when the service unit asked for some help at the warehouse I was able to volunteer, knowing my troops cookies were going to be taken care of. So I went and spent the whole morning counting cases of cookies at the warehouse. 🙂

Dental Work Galore

Today we spent a couple of hours at the dentist. Every kid needed work of some kind. Chloe, Dinah and Tyra all had cavities. Jeremy needed sealants. And Ethan needed two teeth pulled. Apparently these are baby teeth that the dentist has been waiting for them to fall out on their own since at least our last visit six months ago, and they just aren’t coming out on their own. The adult tooth, is actually coming in and pushing on the baby teeth and they are falling out one piece at a time instead of in one whole piece. I asked the dentist to somehow label the teeth and mark them so the tooth fairy knows which is which, and he put them in these little boxes for us:

Yes tooth “J” is in three pieces. This next picture is rather blurry, but that upper tooth surrounded by the red tissue, is the adult tooth that was crumbling the baby teeth. It’s totally already quite a ways out, and those baby teeth were just refusing to budge!