1 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's stories brought to us by December and Levi. Hey, guys, 3 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: they sent me an awesome idea for a story, and 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: you can too. Just head over to Kidshortstories dot com. 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:20,720 Speaker 1: Send me your idea and maybe you will turn it 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,959 Speaker 1: into an awesome adventure. And parents, I just wanted to 7 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: give you a special Hello. My name's mister Jim, Dad 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 1: a husband, and we have three kids who you know, 9 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,760 Speaker 1: we're always talking about screen time and managing that, and 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 1: so we've really found that these stories, like Kid Short 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 1: Stories or Kids' Animal Stories, these podcasts have been super 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: helpful for us and thousands of families all around the world, 13 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: and so we love sharing these stories with you to 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: help manage screen time and really promote creativity and imagination. Well, 15 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: enough of that, are you guys ready for today's story? 16 00:00:55,120 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go. All right, December, are you ready 17 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: to head back for your surgery? Okay, I gotta choose 18 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 1: to be brave. One, two, three, Yes, let's go, said 19 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: December victoriously. Today was a big day that she had 20 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: been a little nervous about for a long time. It 21 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,520 Speaker 1: was the day that she was gonna have surgery on 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: her eye. Her eye had something that only a doctor 23 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: could fix. And I know doctors can sometimes be scary, 24 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, whenever I go to the doctor, I'm 25 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: a little I'm I'm honestly, I'm nervous every time. Mister 26 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: Jim yep, even mister Jim is nervous when he goes 27 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: to the doctor. But doctors are pretty awesome. Do you 28 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 1: know why. Yeah, because our grown ups, our parents, and 29 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: doctors their job is to keep us safe and to 30 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: do the best things for us. And so December she 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 1: needed the surgery on her eye, and even though it's 32 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:08,639 Speaker 1: a little scary, it was the best thing for her. 33 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: And you're not gonna believe what happens. It's pretty amazing. 34 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: But that's at the end of the story, so let's 35 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 1: get there. Well, December headed back for surgery and there 36 00:02:18,919 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: were all kinds of tubes and wires and all kinds 37 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: of different things that were attached to her. And it's 38 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: really important for the doctors to know exactly what your 39 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: body is doing while they're about to go into surgery, 40 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,639 Speaker 1: because they need to make sure that your blood has 41 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: the right oxygen needs to know that that you're breathing 42 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: well and that everything is just right, that your heart 43 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: is beating at the right time. Everything is perfect, and 44 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: then it's time to go to sleep. You see, when 45 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: you go into surgery, you go to sleep. The doctors 46 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: do all the work and you get to sit back 47 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:09,920 Speaker 1: and sh sh just dream about the most amazing adventures 48 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: that you've ever gone on. Well, as soon as December 49 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: closed her eyes and went to sleep, it felt like 50 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: it was just a split second or a minute, and 51 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,839 Speaker 1: then she felt her grown ups, her parents tapping her 52 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: on her arms, saying, December, December, it's time to wake up. 53 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: You're all done and you're all better. She carefully opened 54 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: up her eyes, but the one eye that had the 55 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: surgery done on it, there was a little bit of 56 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: a patch on it, kind of like a pirate patch. 57 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: So the first thing out of December's mouth was I'm hungry. 58 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,800 Speaker 1: Everybody in the room laughed because December was so hilarious. Well, 59 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: back at home, her best friend Levi was planning a 60 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: party for her with all of her friends, and as 61 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: soon as she got home, they surprised her surprise. She 62 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: walked in the door and was greeted by Levi and 63 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: all the friends. They were so happy to see December 64 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: back home. Wow, thanks guys so much. You're the best 65 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: friends in the whole wide world. Isn't it great to 66 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: have really good friends? Yeah? I love having good friends 67 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: and that they can be there for you when you 68 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: need them, or maybe you can be there for them, 69 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: Like if if your friend has surgery or is not 70 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: feeling well or has a rough day, then you can 71 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: send them a really happy voice memo, or maybe call 72 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: them and FaceTime them and tell them that you miss them, 73 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 1: or all kinds of fun things. There's all kinds of 74 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,119 Speaker 1: creative ways, maybe drawing a picture. Well, it was time 75 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 1: for Levi and all the friends to leave because December 76 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: needed to rest. You see, one of the things that's 77 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: really important about after surgery is that you have a 78 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: lot of rest time, which is kind of nice. You 79 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: get to curl up in your bed with your special 80 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: blankets and pillows and just have a lazy couple days 81 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: of resting and maybe listening to stories or just relaxing. Nice. 82 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: December laid down. She felt sleepy and fell right to sleep. 83 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: Over the next few days, December's body was healing and 84 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:43,600 Speaker 1: her eyes were feeling a lot better. It was finally 85 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 1: time to take off that pirate patch. Are as fun 86 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: as it was to pretend to be a pirate, December 87 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: was very ready for it to come off. As she 88 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: carefully removed the eye patch from her eye, she blinked 89 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: her eye and something felt funny. Everything looked really good, 90 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:09,039 Speaker 1: and her vision was perfect and everything was good. But 91 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: she almost felt kind of a tingly superpower inside of 92 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: her eye. Hmmm, strange, it must be just you know, 93 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: that feeling will wear off soon. Levi came over later 94 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 1: that day and they wanted to build a fort together. 95 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: That was one of the favorite things that they loved 96 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: to do is build blanket forts and make caves and 97 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: all kinds of cool places to make pretend stories in Hey, December, 98 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: said Levi. He had just gotten there, and December was 99 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: all ready for their fun. Perfect. Well, I have all 100 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: our blankets and pillows and chairs and everything that we 101 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: need to make the most amazingly epic fort, said December. 102 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 1: They got to work immediately, and pretty soon they had 103 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: created the most amazing epic, giantest blanket fort of all time. 104 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: Have you ever made a blanket fort before? Oh? I 105 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: love blanket forts. I think you've heard me talk about 106 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 1: them before, but blanket forts are so cool. I wish 107 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: I wasn't so big. I kind of miss being smaller 108 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: that I can fit inside of those blanket forts, because 109 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: when you get bigger, it's kind of hard to squeeze 110 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: inside a blanket cave without knocking it all over. Or 111 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 1: maybe I need bigger chairs and a bigger fort. Maybe. Well. 112 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: December and leave I were having a great time, and 113 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,520 Speaker 1: all of a sudden they realized that they had stumbled 114 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: into some kind of secret cave that led down to 115 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: the basement. How did this happen, Levi, I said, I 116 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: don't know. This secret passage was never here before. December 117 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 1: had lived in this house for a very long time 118 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: and had never noticed a secret passage that went down 119 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: to the basement. The only secret passage that she knew 120 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: about to the basement was through the door, like the 121 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:13,680 Speaker 1: normal door. But this was something different. All right, it's 122 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 1: kind of dark down there, said Levi. December peered around 123 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: the corner and said, what do you it's not that dark? 124 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: Come on. December led the way down deeper and deeper 125 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: towards the basement. They crawled, and pretty soon LEVI couldn't 126 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: see anything. Uh, maybe we should go back and get 127 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: a flashlight. Like, this is so dark, what are you 128 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: talking about? I can see just fine. Then December blinked 129 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: her eyes a few times and realized, I'm seeing night 130 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: vision right now. What said LEVI, I'm serious. December couldn't 131 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: believe it. She kept blinking her eyes. I can see 132 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 1: in the dark. I believe you that it's pitch black 133 00:08:57,160 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: down here, but I can see just fine. It's like 134 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: I have night vision goggles built into my Oh my goodness, 135 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,440 Speaker 1: Holy smokes. I think the doctors might have I don't 136 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: know if they did this on purpose, but I think 137 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,520 Speaker 1: they gave me some kind of night vision. This is amazing. 138 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: Levi had to run back and grab a flashlight to 139 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: join December the rest of the time in their basement journey. 140 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:28,880 Speaker 1: But this was just the beginning of December's night vision adventures. Yes, 141 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: that surgery had somehow transformed her eyes into having night vision. Wow. 142 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 1: I wish I had night vision too. That would be 143 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 1: so cool to be able to walk around in a 144 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: dark place and see everything. Oh man, I'm a little 145 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: jealous of December's eyes, but I'm pretty excited to hear 146 00:09:50,280 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: about the adventures ahead for December and LEVI, Wow, what 147 00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: an amazing adventure. I'm so glad that she knows to 148 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 1: be brave and do that eye surgery that helped her 149 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: eye and even gave her a bonus superpower. We'll see 150 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: you next time. Bye. Hey friends, I need your help 151 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 1: celebrating some birthdays. Drum roll please. Happy birthday Isaac Paul 152 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: who's turning six years old. Isaac loves math, science, hiking, 153 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: ohen his baby puppy Island. Wow, Isaac, I'm so glad 154 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: we got to celebrate you and your big day on 155 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: the show. Happy sixth birthday, And next up we have 156 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 1: Happy birthday Alana who's turning five years old. Alana is 157 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: very adventurous, speaks three languages, and loves sparkly unicorns. Wow, 158 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: a Lota, I'm so glad we got to celebrate you 159 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:07,080 Speaker 1: and your big day on the show. Happy fifth birthday. Well, friends, 160 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 1: I hope you all have a super duper day and 161 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: I will see you on our next adventure. Bye.