1 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Hello friends, It's mister Jim and welcome back to Kid 2 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's stories brought to us by December and Levi. Hey, guys, 3 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: they sent me an awesome idea for a story, and 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: you can too. Just head over to Kidshortstories dot com. 5 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,599 Speaker 1: Send me your idea and maybe you will turn it 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: into an awesome adventure. And parents, I just wanted to 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: give you a special Hello. My name's mister Jim. I'm dad, 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: a husband, and we have three kids who you know, 9 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: we're always talking about screen time and managing that, and 10 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:36,840 Speaker 1: so we've really found that these stories, like Kid Short 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: Stories or Kids' Animal Stories, these podcasts have been super 12 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,560 Speaker 1: helpful for us and thousands of families all around the world, 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: and so we love sharing these stories with you to 14 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: help manage screen time and really promote creativity and imagination. Well, 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: enough of that, are you guys ready for today's story? 16 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go. All right, December, are you ready 17 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: to head back for a your surgery? Okay, I gotta 18 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: choose to be brave. One, two, three, Yes, let's go, 19 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: said December victoriously. Today was a big day that she 20 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: had been a little nervous about for a long time. 21 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: It was the day that she was gonna have surgery 22 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: on her eye. Her eye had something that only a 23 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: doctor could fix. And I know doctors can sometimes be scary, 24 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: You're right, Yeah, whenever I go to the doctor, I'm 25 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: a little I'm I'm honestly, I'm nervous every time. Mister 26 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: Jim yep, even mister Jim is nervous when he goes 27 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 1: to the doctor. But doctors are pretty awesome. Do you 28 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: know why. Yeah, because our grown ups, our parents, and 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: doctors their job is to keep us safe and to 30 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 1: do the best things for us. And so December she 31 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: needed the surgery on her eye, and even though it's 32 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: a little scary, it was the best thing for her. 33 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: And you're not gonna believe what happens. It's pretty amazing. 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: But that's at the end of the story, so let's 35 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 1: get there. Well, December headed back for surgery and there 36 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: were all kinds of tubes and wires and all kinds 37 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: of different things that were attached to her. And it's 38 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: really important for the doctors to know exactly what your 39 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: body is doing while they're about to go into surgery, 40 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 1: because they need to make sure that your blood has 41 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: the right oxygen needs to know that a that you're 42 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: breathing well and that everything is just right, that your 43 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: heart is beating at the right time. Everything is perfect. 44 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: And then it's time to go to sleep. You see, 45 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: when you go into surgery, you go to sleep. The 46 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: doctors do all the work and you just get to 47 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 1: sit back and sh sh, just dream about the most 48 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 1: amazing adventures that you've ever gone on. Well, as soon 49 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: as December closed her eyes and went to sleep, it 50 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: felt like it was just a split second or a minute, 51 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 1: and then she felt her grown ups, her parents, tapping 52 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: her on her arms, saying, December, December, it's time to 53 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: wake up. You're all done and you're all better. She 54 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: carefully opened up her eyes. But the one eye that 55 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: had the surgery done on it, there was a little 56 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 1: bit of a patch on it, kind of like a 57 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: pirate patch. So the first thing out of December's mouth 58 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: was I'm hungry. Everybody in the room laughed because December 59 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: was so hilarious. Well, back at home, her best friend 60 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:00,200 Speaker 1: Levi was planning a party for her with all of 61 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: her friends, and as soon as she got home, they 62 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: surprised her surprise. She walked in the door and was 63 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: greeted by Levi and all the friends. They were so 64 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: happy to see December back home. Wow, thanks guys so much. 65 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 1: You're the best friends in the whole wide world. Isn't 66 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: it great to have really good friends. Yeah? I love 67 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: having good friends and that they can be there for 68 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: you when you need them, or maybe you can be 69 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 1: there for them, Like if if your friend has surgery 70 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,840 Speaker 1: or is not feeling well or has a rough day, 71 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: then you can send them a really happy voice memo, 72 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: or maybe call them and FaceTime them and tell them 73 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: that you miss them, or all kinds of fun things. 74 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: There's all kinds of creative ways, maybe drawing a picture. Well, 75 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: it was time for Levi and all the friends to 76 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: leave because December needed to rest. You see, one of 77 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: the things that's really important about after surgery is that 78 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: you have a lot of rest time, which is kind 79 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,679 Speaker 1: of nice. You get to curl up in your bed 80 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: with your special blankets and pillows and just have a 81 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: lazy couple days of resting and maybe listening to stories 82 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: or just relaxing. Nice. December laid down. She felt sleepy 83 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: and fell right to sleep. Over the next few days, 84 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: December's body was healing and her eyes were feeling a 85 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,919 Speaker 1: lot better. It was finally time to take off that 86 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: pirate patch. Are as fun as it was to pretend 87 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,040 Speaker 1: to be a pirate, December was very ready for it 88 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 1: to come off. As she carefully removed the eye patch 89 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: from her eye, she blinked her eye and something felt funny. 90 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: Everything looked really good, and her vision was perfect and 91 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 1: everything was good. But she almost felt kind of a 92 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: tingly superpower inside of her eye. Hmmm, strange, it must 93 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,880 Speaker 1: be just you know, that feeling will wear off soon. 94 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: Levi came over later that day and they wanted to 95 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: build a fort together. That was one of the favorite 96 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: things that they loved to do is build blanket forts 97 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,560 Speaker 1: and make caves and all kinds of cool places to 98 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:44,360 Speaker 1: make pretend stories in Hey, December, said Levi. He had 99 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: just gotten there and December was all ready for their fun. Perfect. Well, 100 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: I have all our blankets and pillows and chairs and 101 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 1: everything that we need to make the most amazingly epic fort, 102 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: said December. They got to work immediately, and pretty soon 103 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:09,159 Speaker 1: they had created the most amazing epic, giantest blanket fort 104 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: of all time. Have you ever made a blanket fort? Before. Oh, 105 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: I love blanket forts. I think you've heard me talk 106 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 1: about them before. But blanket forts are so cool. I 107 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: wish I wasn't so big. I kind of miss being 108 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: smaller that I can fit inside of those blanket forts, 109 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: because when you get bigger, it's kind of hard to 110 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: squeeze inside a blanket cave without knocking it all over. 111 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: Or maybe I need bigger chairs and a bigger fort. Maybe. Well, 112 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: December and leave I were having a great time, and 113 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: all of a sudden they realized that they had stumbled 114 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 1: into some kind of secret cave that led down to 115 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: the basement. How did this happen, Levi, I said, I 116 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: don't know. This secret passage was never here before. December 117 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: had lived in this house for a very long time 118 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: and had never noticed a secret passage that went down 119 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: to the basement. The only secret passage that she knew 120 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: about to the basement was through the door, like the 121 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: normal door. But this was something different. All right, it's 122 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,280 Speaker 1: kind of dark down there, said Levi. December peered around 123 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: the corner and said, you, it's not that dark. Come on. 124 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 1: December led the way down deeper and deeper towards the basement. 125 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: They crawled, and pretty soon LEVI couldn't see anything. Uh, 126 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: maybe we should go back and get a flashlight. Like, 127 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: this is so dark, what are you talking about? I 128 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: can see just fine. Then December blinked her eyes a 129 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: few times and realized, I'm seeing night vision right now. 130 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: What said LEVI, I'm serious. December couldn't believe it. She 131 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: kept blinking her eyes. I can see in the dark. 132 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: I believe you that it's pitch black down here, but 133 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,680 Speaker 1: I can see just fine. It's like I have night 134 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 1: vision goggles built into my Oh my goodness, holy smokes. 135 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: I think the doctors might have I don't know if 136 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: they did this on purpose, but I think they gave 137 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: me some kind of night vision. This is amazing. Levi 138 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,680 Speaker 1: had to run back and grab a flashlight to join 139 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 1: December the rest of the time in their basement journey. 140 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: But this was just the beginning of December's night vision adventures. Yes, 141 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 1: that surgery had somehow transformed her eyes into having night vision. Wow, 142 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: I wish I had night vision too. That would be 143 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: so cool to be able to walk around in a 144 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: dark place and see everything. Oh man, I'm a little 145 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: jealous of December's eyes, But I'm pretty excited to hear 146 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: about the adventures ahead for December and LEVI Wow, what 147 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: an amazing adventure. I'm so glad that she chose to 148 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,040 Speaker 1: be brave and do that eye surgery that helped her 149 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,680 Speaker 1: eye and even gave her a bonus superpower. We'll see 150 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 1: you next time. Bye. Great job, you listened all the 151 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:22,040 Speaker 1: way to the end, and you know what time it is. 152 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: It's time for Kude shout out. I want to say hey, 153 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:32,199 Speaker 1: or Alia from Montreal, Maya from Boston, Nada from America, 154 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: Mica from London, Brooks from Montana, Nora, and Conrad from Venice, Florida. 155 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,280 Speaker 1: Ario from Oakville, Ontario, Canada, and Juliet and Benji from Chattanooga. 156 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,120 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the Kid short 157 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: Story's family and on our spy team. We could not 158 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: stop Doctor Stinky Breath without you, my friends. Well, you 159 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: have a super duper day and I will see you 160 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 1: next time. Bye.