BobChuck -- Chapter I, The Beginning

Chapter I: Alien Introductions

Bob Robert Robertson stepped out of the back door to put the garbage out. A shimmer on the brick wall made him stop mid step. Turning to get a closer look, a thought burst into his brain.
I won’t hurt you.
Duh. Of course I won’t hurt me. What a stupid thought. Bob turned away from the shimmer and dumped the collection of dirty diapers and kitchen waste into the big outside bin. “Mom, it’s done,” he yelled. Quietly he spoke again, “I’m going to Eric’s house, OK?” Then he ran. He wasn’t giving her any time to say no.
It’s not that important.
Bob stopped. “Yes it is,” he said out loud. “What are you talking about?”
“Bob, who are you talking to?” It was Liza, the girl from next door. She thought she was his friend or something. He started running again for an answer. “Where are you going? Eric’s out of town, remember?”
Dumb girl. How come she was always spying on him? He turned around started walking home. Liza watched him from her porch. “Where are you going now?”
Wasn’t it obvious? Another question he didn’t care to answer.
“Come see my Bonsai jasmine. It’s blossoming.”
Jasmine? Now that’s important.
“Jasmine’s not important,” Bob shouted, but only half to Liza. What is going on? He pelted home. Reaching for the screen door, his eye caught the shimmer again. It had moved. “Weird,” Bob said, and then he slipped inside.
I didn’t see anything weird.
“Yes I did,” Bob mumbled. Where are these thoughts coming from?
“Forgot Eric’s out of town, didn’t you?” Mom interrupted Bob’s wories. “He’ll be back before you know it. You could see what Liza’s up to.”
“Liza’s a girl,” Bob answered as if that decided the matter.
“I’m a girl. What does that have to do with it?”
And she has jasmine.
“I don’t care if she has jasmine or not!” Bob shouted.
“What are you yelling about?" aksed mom. "I didn’t say anything about jasmine. I’m just saying that I’m a girl, and I’m dang cool, so you better watch what you say about girls.”
“Oh mom, you’re not a girl," Bobn grinned. "Liza’s weird. She has these little trees that she’s always talking about. That’s boring.”
Jasmine!
“Besides,” Bob ignored the interruption, “I feel weird. I’m gonna go read.”
“Ok. But Liza’s not that bad, and you’ve got the whole summer ahead of you without Eric. Bonsai trees are not normal plants Bob. They’re very beautiful, and extremely valuable.”
And I could get some jasmine.
“Ok, ok. Leave me alone about Liza, ok? I just don’t like her.” Bob slumped down the hall to his room and began rifling the bookshelf. What he needed was an alien killing, planet saving comic book -- something to take his mind off Eric, Liza, and this jasmine weirdness.
A few minutes later, Bob climbed on a chair to reach the box that held his comics. Jumping as high as he dared, he tap-tapped the box toward him off the shelf. Almost there . . . just one more . . . the box was ready to drop perfectly into his hands when Bob noticed the shimmer on the wall and hit the box too hard. His feet missed the chair, but his rear caught the edge of the seat and tipped it forward. Slam! His nose was crushed against the spine of Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader on a lower shelf. It started to bleed all over the rug. Picoseconds later, ten years of favorite comics hit him on top of the head.
I didn’t mean to scare you.
Shaking his head in pain and frustration, Bob plugged his bleeding nostril and eyed the shimmer. It was moving toward him. Yanking himself up, he stumbled to the opposite wall. “What are you!?” He never took his eyes off the shimmer. “What are you doing to my brain!?”
I’m communicating with you. The shimmer advanced.
“Stop! Don't come any closer!" Bob was panting, trying not to freak out. He shot a question at the shimmer. "Why don’t you talk like a normal person?”
I’m not a person. I’m an alien. The shimmer was close enough to touch him.
Bob’s head stopped pounding. Blood ran from his nose unchecked. “You’re an alien? No way. This is some kind of joke." Eric, is that you?” But he knew the shimmer was not a joke. No joke could get inside his head. This had to be real. How awesome can it get!
Who’s Eric?
“My friend.” Bob remembered the blood running over his lips and down his chin. “Be right back.”
Wait! Where are you going?
“I’ll be back. I just need a Kleenex.”
Don’t tell anyone. If you do, I’ll disappear.
Bob's mom interrupted their dialogue for a second. "Bob, are you Ok? It sounded like something fell." The sound of her footsteps in the hall put him in a panic.
"Yeah, I'm Ok! My comics fell. Don't worry, I'll pick them up."
"All right, honey. I'm going for a walk with Beth. Be back in a half hour. Are you sure you don't need anything?"
"Yeah, I'm good mom. Bye." He grinned at the shimmer. "Don't worry, I won't tell. No one would believe this anyway. Hang on a sec, I’m getting blood all over my shirt.”
In a few moments Bob returned with a wad of Kleenex shoved up his left nostril and carrying a roll of Charmin’ two ply. The shimmer was still there. Bob held up the toilet paper. “In case it doesn’t stop,” he explained, sure that the creature would be wondering. Then he voiced some of the million questions that occurred to him on his trip to the bathroom. “Why did you come here? What’s your name anyway? What’s it like where you came from? Can I go? Who-"
My name is Wgrcckkyptptgs.
This halted Bob. “Huh? Waggerchuckypotputgoose? What kind of a name is that? That will definitely not work on earth. I’m calling you Chuck. Are you a boy or a girl?”
Boy.
“How old are you?”
Ten.
“Cool, me too. Are you guys on summer vacation? We are.”
No.
“Then why aren’t you at school?”
I am at school.
“Come on, this is my bedroom. What are you talking about?”
You wouldn’t understand.
“Yes I would. I’m the smartest one in my class. Everyone says so.”
Someone on your planet had an idea called the theory of relativity. Do you know it?
“No, what is it?”
Time slows for someone traveling at high speeds. He was right. When you travel at the speed of light, time stops. I am at school, and I am in your room, and I am in between. All is present. Do you understand?
“No, but it sounds cool. How do you know about it?”
My teacher told me. I don’t get it either, but my dad told me not to worry about it and just do the project. He said it would be fun.
“What project?”
Homework. Travel in time and space and visit another planet in the past. I’m supposed to make a friend and write a report.
“I hate reports. I had to write one on porcupines. How did you pick me?”
I didn’t. My teacher chose figures important in cosmic history for us to write about. I was assigned your time and space. Will you help me? I have to turn my report in tomorrow.
“Sure.” Bob ran both hands through his hair. He always did this when he was thinking. “Wait a second." He pulled his hair so that it stood on end. "If you’re everywhere in time and space, isn’t your report already done?”
It is for me, but not for you.
“Weird," Bob pulled the Kleenex out of his nose to see if it had stopped bleeding. "Nope," he said, and he shoved it back in. "Want to play a game? I have Spiderman Monopoly and chess. Oh, and this really cool one called Goblet. Eric gave it to me. He's really good at it.”

Quotable Quotes

Eldon: Dad, is it tomorrow yet?

Oh how time flies!!!

So we have had a lot of fun this spring and early summer. This is some of our June fun and I will blog April and May soon I hope.


In the beginning of the month we took a trip up to the beloved state of Delaware to go to a wedding of some good friends Karl did ROTC with while he was doing his master's degree at UD. Paul and Katie's wedding was beautiful! And so much fun for us all.

At the end of the night I was taking this picture of Rebecca and she suddenly gave me a big thumbs up. I guess that was her way of saying the wedding was a hit.

They all crashed in the car within minutes of driving away.

Because we are cheap we stayed with our friends the Hannigs. Can I say fun! Oh how I wish we lived closer. We had the opperitunity to go to church in our old ward there and it felt so much like home it made me cry. We didn't realise how hard it would be to have a short visit. But it was well worth it. Maybe some day we will move back. Such great people in a wonderful area.

Just some funny reasent pictures.



Zach is always in trouble lately! He's so funny if he gets in trouble he puts himself in the corner and stays there until someone count to 20 for him. The one of him naked in the corner he was running away from me when I was trying to change his diaper and so when he went to the corner for being naughty I had to snap a picture of it.

Over Memorial Day weekend we cut down a pine tree in the back yard and some large limbs off the other trees to let in more light so my garden will grow. The kids made a lean-to with the limbs a couple weeks ago. I am happy to say that with the help of one of Karls friends from school we finished cleaning up the branches in the yard today. YEAH!



CARSON is 10 now!!!! He had a fun birthday. He really wanted to go hiking for his birthday, but it stormed that morning, so we went Sunday instead. I can't believe he's 10




This last weekend we went camping in the Red River Gorge. It was hot and HUMID, but a lot of fun. The orge is beautiful, but my camera is on the fritz so sadly enough I only have a couple pictures. We went with Karl's two study buddies from his dental class. John is from KY and has connections so we camped and canoed and kayacked all for free. It was a great camping trip. Carson Stayed up withthe adults until about 2 AM and I think that he was back up at 5:30 or something. He was out the whole ride home. slept in the car for a while when we got home and then when he did wake up he was only awake enough to get in the front do and crashed again on the floor for about 4 hours. He's a crazy kid.

So that's it for June so far. Hopefully I can get our spring time fun on here too.

Chandler Quotable Quotes

Lydea: (While clapping hands vigorously)
What would happen if you milked a cow like THIS!?

Lydea

Here are some fun pictures of Lydea we randomly took the other day. I thought they turned out really cute so I played with some of them. She is such a pretty little girl. She has a very cute personality as well. I just hope that she learns some manners and calms down a bit, but I have to say I didn't have the best manners myself at her age and I had a tendency of being quite loud and obnaxious. I think most people would be surprised to know that about me if they didn't know me when I was young.

Woot woot!

Neuroanatomy and gross anatomy are over!

Easter

Decorating eggs Saturday night.

Haylee did a good job entertaining Zach since he's not much help with dying eggs.



I was making faces a t Zach to keep him happy. I think I look pretty scary.

Rebecca was very proud of her eggs.



Lydea couldn't wait she had to eat an egg. She loves hard boiled eggs.

The Easter egg hunt in the front yard after church.

Rebecca loved her slip. So she took her dress off as soon as we got home from chirch and ran around in her slip the rest of the day.

At first the kids weren't sure what to think when there was no candy in the eggs.

They had quite the time unscrambling the letters .

They never found the last "a" for icecream, which threw them off a bit, but they figured it out and were pretty excited for icecream. It was fun for a change. In case you can't read it, it says "LET'S EAT LOTS OF ICECREAM" We decided to go with icecream because I still have Halloween candy in the freezer and candy canes in the cupboard. I just didn't want to buy more, and icecream sounded good to me so we went with it!