obsession

Owen and Sophie and the external fuel tank

Mom's obsession?  Footed jammies on Ben!  What could be cuter?

A mid November check in, with some happy pictures of the kids and the topic of: obsession.

Owen has been interested in planes and rockets for a few years, but is in the middle of a fever pitch over the space shuttle right now.  It's being fueled by Sophie at school, who is also excited about rockets. Together they spend each recess plotting and building various paper rockets and shuttle, discussing fuel options, and plotting their space launch.  Other kids on the playground (including Laurel) are signed up to man the command center and do other various jobs- basically they have organized the Zion Lutheran School Space Program- which they have named the FSA- Fabulous Space Agency.  During a play date last week, Owen and Sophie were supposed to go into space, but they scrapped that launch due to some technical issues.  Yesterday she came here to play and they built the solid rocket boosters and the external fuel tank.  We'll need another play date to build the orbiter- Sophie is concerned about how we will make the ceramic tiles strong enough to withstand the heat of re-entry.  Oh, the problems of youth.

Ben is in the middle of a 2 day obsession with painting.  Super fun artwork is being generated.  There was one mishap last night when during a game of chase, Ben decided to ramp it up a bit, grabbed a bottle of paint and threw it all over Owen (and the floors).  Richard laid down the law, got everyone cleaned up, and Ben was reciting to me this morning: Paint is for Paper.

Everyone is healthy at the moment- hope it lasts through Thanksgiving!