to be a kid again

When you were a kid, what did you like to do the most? Do you still do it anymore? I know I loved to read and write when I was younger. I don't do either as much as I would like these days.

My six year old, Andrew, LOVES to draw, especially drawing robots and (you guessed it!) Transformers. He has been obsessed with Transformers since he was three (and that's an understatement). We have every Transformer made in the last three years... and then some. So as I was surfing the web the other day, I found that USA Today is having a contest to design your own Transformer contest. I showed it to Andrew and explained the rules. You have to create a brand new Tranformer and draw it both in robot form and it's untransformed state.

Andrew has spent the last few days roaming around the house looking for the PERFECT thing to turn into his new Transformer. He settled on a few of his brother's Matchbox cars that work like the Constructicons to form both their own individual Transformers and also one big Transformer. He only drew the one big united Transformer for the contest.



His Transformer's name is Crush Monster and it's made out of five cars named Beater Thunder, Crush, Signal and one that he couldn't come up with a name for so he called it No-Namer. He made a video explaining it as well... which I will post as soon as I can get it uploaded!