Our Week with Masen the Monkey

Kaitlynn's preschool class has a super fun project that they will be working on throughout the school year. The class has a mascot, Masen the Monkey, and Masen is taking turns every week spending time with each of the students in the class. During the visits, each student is supposed to document their week with Masen using pictures in Masen's scrapbook. At the end of the year, Masen will have a full and complete record of all his fun times with each of the students in Kaitlynn's class. How cool is that?

There is no set schedule for Masen's weekly visits, so imagine my surprise when Kaitlynn was sent home with him last week! When I picked her up from school, she was holding the bag with Masen and Masen's scrapbook. And she had the HUGEST smile on her face! Honestly, I don't know if I've ever seen her smile so big!!

We had to call Daddy right away to tell him that Masen was spending the week with us. He was just as excited and we all began talking about all the fun things we could do with Masen during his visit! Kaitlynn LOVED reading Masen's scrapbook and seeing all of the adventures that Masen has been on with her classmates. Here she was showing Kevin all about it.

On our first day with Masen, we had to go up to Connor's school for an appointment. Kaitlynn happily brought Masen and showed him off to everyone.

We also attended a playdate with some of Kaitlynn's classmates. They were excited to see Masen, too, because they knew that Masen would be visiting them, too. Some of the Moms were talking about the pressure of not knowing when we'll have Masen at our house and making sure we have enough cool things planned for the week. Masen has already been to so many cool places, including Seaworld!

Kaitlynn took Masen with her to gymnastics that afternoon.

The next day, we took Masen with us to the Holiday Market at Kaitlynn's school. There were so many fun gifts and crafts to look at.

During our weekend, Kaitlynn took Masen to Connor's flag football game. Masen helped cheer on the team from the sidelines. Connor was very insistent that he be in at least one picture with Masen. He wanted to be in the book, too!

The highlight of our week with Masen was attending the Houston Texans game. Masen and Kaitlynn helped cheer on our team to a great victory over the Ravens, 43-13. Masen was our good luck charm!

Masen sure is one lucky monkey! Kaitlynn was sad to return Masen to her classroom, but we sure had an awesome week of adventures with him.

And here is how our page (front and back) in Masen's scrapbook turned out: