Geogette & Rockets

We had a very fun visitor at our house last weekend. Georgette, the monkey! Georgette is the preschool monkey that goes home with students on the weekends for fun overnight visits. Eli has very patiently and eagerly awaited his turn to have Georgette at his house. He was thrilled to bring her home on Friday, and we were sure to show Georgette a good time.

Georgette went everywhere with Eli and did everything that Eli did. Whether it was taking a nap or playing in the sandbox.

Saturday was our school's Spring Celebration, so we loaded Georgette up into Eli's backpack, and she joined in the fun. Dunk tanks...

...and face painting.

Sunday, Eli helped Daddy put the finishing touches on our model rockets,

and then we set out to launch them with Aunt Kristi and Steve.

Eli was pretty darn excited about launching rockets, as you can imagine. He (and Georgette) wanted to be a part of every step.

Eli even got to push the button once....

but quickly decided that the rockets were loud when they launched. His conclusion: you cannot cover your ears AND push the button to launch the rockets at the same time.

And he couldn't let Georgette's ears go unprotected.

It was a fun morning launching rockets,

watching them come down (hoping they didn't get caught up in a tree....as two of the small ones did),

and heading out to retrieve them.

We hope Georgette had a fun weekend at the Carson household. Eli is already talking about what we can do when she comes home with us NEXT year. Thanks for coming, Georgette!