Blast Off!

You may remember the last time we built a rocket with straws and connectors. Then again, you may not ... it was three years ago! Alex brought me the box of the straws and connectors today and asked if we could pleeeeeease make something ... so we decided on the rocket ship. He loved it, and of course he wanted to get in it and fly to the moon ...


Benny had to have his turn as well. This is the face I got when I asked him to look at me and smile. (And of course, this is why real photographers don't tell kids to smile!)


So we decided to send 'em both to the moon! Here they are blasting off.


Ethan was almost too big for the rocket this time.


This is my somewhat pitiful attempt to get all three of them in a picture together. Well, they're all in the picture, but only Alex is actually looking at the camera, and he has a pretty cheesy grin.


You may notice that Benny is disassembling the rocket. He completed that project shortly after the picture-taking ended, much to Alex's chagrin. It's hard to have a destructive little brother!