Rocket Man

Charlie's class theme for this week was outer space. He came home one day all enthused about rockets, and so Evan suggested they make one. It didn't take long for us to realize that he thought we meant a REAL rocket. He had already planned for the rocket to have seats for me, Evan and his baby so we could all go into space together. Evan had a stroke of genius and convinced him that step one in any space engineering project was to build a model. So the boys got busy with some poster tubes and Styrofoam cups and came up with this:





Since then, we've been taking a lot of pretend trips into space. One of our favorite stops is the Saturn Restaurant, which even has kids meals.