It's fun being in Girl Scouts, said Ainslee, a member of Troop 64968, "because you get to sell cookies and say which ones are your favorite."

When asked which cookies were her favorite, Ainslee gestured at a table full of brightly-colored boxes, from Thin Mints to Lemonades, and said, "All of them!"

Ainslee Manduca, 8 and in second grade, and Isabella Escobar-Gross, 9 and in third grade, set up a stand at the 7-11 on Barker Road, East Wareham, the morning of Sunday, Jan. 14. 

The girls were accompanied by families full of troop members. Ainslee's mother and grandmother, Sara Phillips and Cheryl Manduca, had been girl scouts, as well as her relatives Savine and Hailey Manduca and Isabella's mother, Megan Escobar-Gross. 

It's Ainslee's third year in the scouts, and Isabella's first. In their time, Troop 64968 has been prolific in its acquisition of honors. 

"So in Girl Scouts, they have these things called journeys, which are multiple badges put together that make up a bigger thing," said Phillips. "When a troop or an individual girl earns all of these journeys, they get something called a summit award."

It's rare for "daisies" — the Girl Scout rank for girls below second grade — to get a summit award, but the daisies of Troop 64968 (at the time including Ainslee) earned one last year, said Phillips. 

Ainslee showed off the silver summit award pin on her Girl Scouts vest, as well as the other badges she had collected on her path there, and the colorful arc that symbolized her promotion from a daisy to a brownie. 

"I want to continue Girl Scouts and complete my journey," she said.