I just got back from a long drive to Area 51. This was the perfect day to bring Jonathon back home. Let me tell you about Jonathon the Alien. I am allowed to now that he is no longer with us.
A year ago, while I was at a Sonic Drive-Thru, I heard a knock on my passenger door. I opened it and in hopped a creature from out of this world. I took him home and we fostered him for the last year.
Here are some beautiful memories we created throughout the last year of living with an alien. Enjoy.
Jonathon the first day we met. He did not know how to use a seat belt after my asking him many times to put it on…
We stopped off for him to “Call Home”…that did not work as he did not know any numbers to call.
A few days later, after hiding out in our house, we took him out for a movie at the beach. He loved Toy Story and especially these guys!
We introduced him to our family. Here is Maci making faces at him and welcoming him to our BBQ outside. Yes, he fit in to the Cotton Family! …
Thinking he may be part fish, we brought Jonathon to the Beach to play. He was afraid of the waves. Ok, so maybe no relation to any fish….
Jonathon was a perfect companion when we had to do our daily chores. Waiting for an oil change on our car was a great time for him to learn how to read and enjoy photos of cars. He asked how we make them fly like his cars do.
So, I told him we wash our cars to make them fly. He loved washing our cars. Jonathon even helped the neighbors wash their cars, too. He was the most popular kid in our ‘hood!
Fall came, so I enrolled him in school. The kids did not notice he was different. Or if they did, they did not care. This is his best friend, Bert. Bert called Jonathon “Ernie” just for a hoot. We all laughed.
For Halloween, Jonathon wanted to be a Power Ranger Ninja. It was such a cool costume. No one in the neighborhood recognized him. (or so we told him…)
Christmas came and we went to a Christmas festival. Jonathon washed the sleigh hoping for it to fly, but it would not. He was disappointed and would not smile for this photo.
We had a great time at the Christmas event. He made wonderful friends there.
Springtime arrived and so did baseball season. Jonathon loved going to Angels games. The fans around him were amazed he actually caught a ball! Check out their expressions in this photo!
We taught Jonathon how to ride a bike! He is a natural. Here we are taking a break from our trek.
…Apparently he is more natural with the ladies, though. After this photo was taken they stopped and picked him up to ride on the back of their bikes. What a fun day.
When summer came, we took him fishing. He liked catching fish and actually compared it to how his friends catch cows and humans on earth. He kept saying “Let’s abduct more fish!”.
In June, we took Jonathon camping with our family. He loved that we could see the stars in the desert sky. He got homesick which made me want to see if I could get him back home. Maybe I could get him to a place where his mothership could come back and pick him up.
The next morning at the campground, Jonathon went to visit the other campers. He joined them for pancakes. He made friends wherever he went.
Oh, summer was so much fun. Jonathon loved the community pool. Here is a photo of him getting some sun. He used SPF 150.
Jonathon had a great time at the local fair! He loved the rides as they reminded him of flying in space. This photo is of him and his most favorite ride, “Alien Abduction”…he rode it 51 times.
Jonathon started shooting with his finger, and I had to tell him…NO…use the cork gun please. He obliged and won a stuffed “Sponge Bob Square Pants” stuffed doll.
One of my favorite images of my favorite alien kid on a horse. He loved it! He wanted to probe the horse, and I said “NO!” …
Jonathon said this tower reminded him of home. He likes towers. He said he wanted to pose “Cool” for his friends in this photo.
We went to visit a college, as we learned last year that Jonathon is so smart he could advance to a Sophomore college level. One of the buildings had a beautiful light display in its windows at night. Jonathon pondered and then told me he had to go back to his own planet. He missed it.
So we went to the forest fo Jonathon to communicate the best he could. His leaders told him, yes, he must head back to Area 51. They will distract the guards with a social media post about storming Area 51 on Sept 20th, so he can sneak in the back entrance and get back to the humans who have a landing site for the mother ship to pick him up.
Sept 20th, 2019 at 5am… Jonathon is sleeping like a baby, (he sleeps with his eyes open). This is the last image I took of him before we left to bring him back to Area 51. He was a good Alien kid. He was the best car washer. and he was an A+ student. We will miss him, but we know he will watching us from above in the UFO that looks like a shooting star in the sky. xo Peace Out my little Grey. Thank you for your visit.