Rachel's Brownie troop is selling Girl Scout cookies again, and Drew is reprising his role as "Cookie Dude" (a.k.a., the troop's cookie money manager, which is a lot harder than it sounds. I know, because I've seen him up late at night entering data and signing the troop up for tables at locations such as grocery stores and Metro stops). I'm the one who -- at least last year -- supervised all the cookie selling at the different booths since I can't do much for the troop the rest of the year because of my editing and writing schedule.
Anyway, Rachel and I went out selling cookies two weekends ago while Drew was out running some personal errands. We went up and down our block, and we got waylaid at the house across the street that has a baby, Turner, who is about 7 months old.
For all her insistence that she doesn't want a sibling and never wants to have children, Rachel totally loves babies. She was enchanted by Turner and asked if she could hold him (his parents were out, so his grandparents were babysitting). The grandmother supervised while Rachel tried to teach Turner how to kiss -- and he did pretty well! At one point, she exclaimed, "My heart melts just looking at him!" which clearly impressed the grandparents and made them laugh.
Rachel did pretty well with cookie sales that day. One of our last stops was a house nearby that had been renovated beautifully, and we got into quite the conversation with the parents and their daughter, home from post-college study in Chile. She's trying to figure out what grad school to go to, and they were really fun to talk to. That's the advantage of walking around with Rachel selling cookies -- we meet the most interesting people.
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