Crumpled Home

While we were away (yes, pictures from our holiday are coming soon), RJ and LR worked on their art skills. While LR interwove a broad spectrum of stories, pictures and poems, RJ turned his laser-like focus towards drawing aliens in preparation for invasion (project 1).

The Party Alien is on the way. He is a lot of fun, but his sword is super sharp.

The Science Alien uses "Alien Google" on his computer for answering questions about anything in the universe. He also has his grandmother with him, but she has to stay downstairs.

The Mum Alien has extra eyes and arms for keeping baby aliens out of trouble

The Warrior Alien has extra sharp teeth and spikes on his head.

The Strongest Alien can lift pretty much anything.

The Scary Alien will grab you with his arms and tentacles. You can't escape him.

The Twin Aliens are the sneakiest. While you are watching one, the other is smashing everything up. When you try to stop him, the first one runs away and laughs at you.

RJ: If we spend lots of money… Maybe a MILLION dollars… on a spaceship and then we search and search everywhere and maybe then we could find some aliens…

RJ: … But probably not because space is just TOO big and then even if we search everywhere, we might even have to look in a whole ‘nother UNIVERSE.

(by LR)

My aliens name is Gobb-snobb. He is one year old, but in people years, he is fifty. He lives on one of Saturns rings.

He looks like a frog with spines. His skin is green and slimy with yellow dots. He has webbed fingers and toes and huge eyes. His spines are on the middle of his back and they protect him from danger. They also communicate by rubbing the spines together. It makes click noises.

It is a she-male. A she-male is a male and a female at the same time. To reproduce, they lose a finger and that will turn into a child. They eat berries, leaves, and sometimes little bugs.

He has heaps of buttons on all of his clothes and one of the buttons has a little picture of a seat with rocket jets. If he presses that button, an automatic seat will come out with jets. He can go flying. It also has a few other buttons. If you press one of the buttons that has a drink picture on it, a drink will come out. If you press the other button, which has a picture of a piece of food on it, a bug or a berry will come out. Last of all, there’s another button which says “blah blah”, which means get me to safety. It will take you to safety instantly.

(LR and Dad are assembling some Ikea furniture, while RJ mucks around and keeps us company)

Dad: Okay LR, we’ve got another drawer to put together.

RJ: (in his own world) The spice is here to stop the aliens. It’s the only thing that can stop them…

Dad: LR, hand me one of those bolt thingies.

LR: (handing over a bolt) One of these?

Dad: Yep. Perfect.

RJ: (busily arranging things) Without the spice, you would all be dead.

Dad: Okay, now I need one of those round locking nut thingies. Actually, can you put one of those in each of the big holes?

LR: (enthusiastically gets to work) Sure!

RJ: I’ll leave the spice bomb here. It will protect you.

Dad: Looking good LR. Let’s start putting those bits together.

LR: (inserting the bolts into the holes) Like this?

Dad: (turning to grab the next piece) Perfec…

(There’s a sudden loud bang and a huge cloud of ground cloves flies into the air as a plastic container and several carefully balanced pieces of wood fall to the ground.)

(Dad and LR are overwhelmed with spice in nostrils and eyes.)

Dad & LR: Arrgh, my eyes!! What the?! What was that?!

RJ: It’s the spice! You set off the bomb!

Dad: It’s on me and everywhere! What was in there exactly?

RJ: Well, it’s mostly spice… but it has a bit of sugar added.

LR: (yelling in absolute frustration) ARRRGGGH!! RJ! That’s a chest of drawers we’re building!! You’ve got spice in there! All my stuff will smell like cloves!

RJ: But that’s okay!!!   They are clothes!!!

(The spice-aliens connection is a new one to us. No, we haven’t been reading RJ any of the Dune series.)

(demonstrating his latest Lego construction)

RJ: … And the rock monster rides on top, because they can survive in space.

Dad: I didn’t know Star Wars had rock monsters!

RJ: The Wampa and the Rock Monster teamed up, they were tired of getting beaten up by the good guys.

Dad: And what about… Hang on a minute! Is that a marshmallow in there? Where’d you get that?

RJ: That’s Marshy. He’s helping them. He’s their secret weapon.

Dad: Yeah? What does he do?

RJ: Watch this…

(Marshmallow smashes from above onto an unsuspecting Lego guy, now completely enveloped in delicious, comfy-soft  doom).

Dad: WHOAH! Deadly! Is Marshy some kind of alien or something?

RJ: Sort of. He’s an alien, but he’s also piece of the marshmallow alien planet. The whole planet is a giant marshmallow, and little pieces of the planet break off when they’re ready to leave.

Dad: Of course… I don’t know why I didn’t figure that out for myself.

(in the car on the way to school)

Dad: (starting an imagination game) So you two head down to the park one day and there’s something strange there that you’ve never seen before.

RJ and LR discuss exploring it, identifying that it’s an alien rocket ship, and finding the door.

Dad: You can’t find a door handle on the outside.

LR: So we run home and get some saws and come back.

RJ: And we grab an axe too!

LR and RJ: And we SMASH and CHOP the door open and run inside and steal the spaceship and fly it home!!!