Alien Invasion

On Christmas Eve, Erica's niece, Krissa, was a very anxious girl awaiting the arrival of Santa Claus. Nonchalantly, I began to ramble about how tough he is to get a hold of and how it's just about impossible to meet him in person. You had to adhere to a very particular set of criteria before he'd even consider taking your call. Before long, it had become quite the story and about the only thing I can remember of it was the subject.

The next time I saw her, she asked to hear another story. That gave me this idea: take an empty journal, write a story, include some corresponding drawings, read it to the three kids, then hand it over and have them write and draw one themselves so they could read it to me.

I started it off with my best effort a few weeks ago so the oldest, Bailey, has worked on his own story since then and he shared it with everyone Sunday. It was great. Better than great. Krissa is up next. She can't write yet, but has a wild imagination. I'm already looking forward to it.

I've included the text from Bailey's story exactly as it was written...

Alien Invasion
by Bailey Linkenfelter


One sumer morning in Arizona a little boy named Andrew was busy ignoring another alien story. He never listened to them cause he didint belive an them. About half way through the story he snuck through a tree hole. The story teller ran away. Why did he run away asked Andrew? There right in front of him a real live U.F.O. It was heading for the museum. Andrew jumped out of the tree and ran after it. It shot a beam at the museum roof. The roof was falling on all the 2,000 peapoele inside. Then Andrew got an idea. He pulled out his red water gun. He never went anaywere without it. He shot it at the ship. The ship fell on the wooley mamath sceleten. But that just made the roof fall faster. Andrew shouted exit exit exit. Right when every body exit a museum gaurd said you know you have to clean this up. Just then the alein got out of the ship and used his powers to make the gaurd's close fly off. I come from up there the alein said. He pointed up at the sky.

To be continued...