1 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, it's mister Jim. If it's your first time listening, 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: welcome to the family. My name is mister Jim and 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,560 Speaker 1: I have three kids and we love telling stories and 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,119 Speaker 1: kids like you, you send me your ideas and I 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: turn them into an awesome adventure. Today's story comes to 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,320 Speaker 1: us from Ellianna. Hey, Eliana, she sent me a great 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 1: idea and you can't too. Just head her to our website, 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,720 Speaker 1: kidshort stories dot com. 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One day, 17 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 1: Ellianna was sitting in her room reading about how to fly. 18 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: She was a baby unicorn and hadn't learned how to 19 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: fly yet, but she was reading as much as she could, 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: trying to get it perfectly right. All right, So if 21 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: I flap my wings like this and I hold my 22 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: tail like that and then maybe this will happen and 23 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 1: it'll never work. You see, Ellianna was a unicorn, and 24 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: unicorns just can't fly, right, Yeah, well they have to 25 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 1: learn how to fly, and she hadn't learned yet. But 26 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: something that she was really focused on. She was really 27 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: focused on learning to do it perfectly and not make 28 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: any mistakes. But do you know something very interesting, She 29 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: hadn't even tried yet. She was trying to learn in 30 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 1: her head how to do it perfectly, so that the 31 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: first time that she tried, she would do it right. 32 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: But she hadn't tried yet. But don't worry. By the 33 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: end of the story, something amazing is going to happen. 34 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: All right, this is not working. I need to talk 35 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 1: to an expert. I need to find someone who can 36 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,640 Speaker 1: teach me the perfect way to fly the very first time, 37 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 1: because there's no way I'm making any mistakes with this, 38 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: said Elianna. She put on her shoes and off she walked. Remember, 39 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: most unicorns can fly, but Eliana she had to walk. 40 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 1: So she walked up a mountain. She had heard of 41 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: a very old wizard, a wizard that was an expert 42 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: in flying, lived high up in this mountain, she was 43 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:43,959 Speaker 1: gonna go talk to him. Oh, I just have to 44 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: find the perfect way. I don't like making mistakes. I 45 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: have to do it right the first time, or maybe 46 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: someone will laugh at me. Have you ever felt that 47 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: way before? Like you have to do it perfect the 48 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: first time and or else maybe someone will laugh. Yeah, 49 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: me too. I hope Eleanna figures this out. As she 50 00:03:03,720 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: continued walking up the trail, she dreamed of flying. She said, Man, 51 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: I wish I could fly. Be so easier to go 52 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: up this mountain if I could fly up it instead 53 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: of walk. See unicorns, they have four legs and four hoofs, 54 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: kind of like a horse, and it was hard to 55 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: climb up a mountain with those hoofs. Unicorns were not 56 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: made and built to walk up a mountain like that. 57 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: They were made to fly up the mountain. So it 58 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: took Eleana a very, very long time to get up 59 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: this mountain. As she passed different creatures along the way 60 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: up the mountain, some of the creatures were a little 61 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: confused why the unicorn was walking. Oh aw, hello, there, 62 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: said a blue jay. Do you are you okay? Said 63 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: the blue jay? Oh, yes, I'm fine, I'm just going 64 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,040 Speaker 1: to find the old wizard that lives up this mountain, 65 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: said Aliana. Oh well, h why don't you just fly 66 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: up there like me? Look, you just you have wings 67 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: just like me. Fly said the blue jay. Uh, that's 68 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: cool that you can fly. I wish I can do 69 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: that sometime. But I haven't learned how to do that yet. 70 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: Well just just try. Can you flap your wings really fast? 71 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: I bet it a work? Said the blue jay. Nah. 72 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: I don't want to try that yet. I want to 73 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: make sure that I do it perfectly the first time, 74 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 1: said Eliana. Okay, well, good luck. Bang blue jay took 75 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: off flying. Oh I wish I could fly like a 76 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: blue jay, said Elianna. She continued walking and hiking up 77 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: the mountain. Oh boy, this is getting hot. It was 78 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: a really hot day. And then she saw another creature. 79 00:04:54,360 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: Oh hello, it was a ginormous eagle. Hi. Hello there, Hi, 80 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: my name's Eleanna. What's your name? Yo? My name is Edgar. 81 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: Oh hi Edgar. Uh, you must be a really good flyer. 82 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,239 Speaker 1: Can you tell me your secrets? Oh? Of course. Will 83 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: you just have to believe and you just flap your 84 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,559 Speaker 1: wings and oh well, I don't really remember how I learned. 85 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: I just I just now flap my wings. Have have 86 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: you ever tried flapping your wings, little girl, said Edgar, 87 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: Well not yet. I I just want to make sure 88 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 1: that I totally understand everything before I try flapping my wings. Okay, well, 89 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: good luck to you. I hope you figure it out, 90 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 1: because flying is the best thing in the whole wide world. 91 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: And off flew Edgar the Eagle. Ellianna started to think 92 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: to herself, maybe I should just try. I don't know, 93 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: I really don't want that eagle the blue jay to 94 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 1: laugh at me if I don't do it right the 95 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,320 Speaker 1: first time. I don't know what to do. I just 96 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: got to talk to this wizard. As Eleianna finally made 97 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: it up to the top of the mountain, she saw 98 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: the wizard there. Hello, mister wizard, my name's Eleanna. I 99 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: really need help flying. Could you teach me everything you know? Oh? Well, 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: of course I can. But all right, well, come sit down. 101 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,920 Speaker 1: Ellianna sat down and took out a piece of paper 102 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 1: and a pencil and started to write everything down that 103 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 1: the wizard was talking. All right, well, the first thing 104 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: that you need to do is is just try to 105 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: fly and see if it works. Okay, But what do 106 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: I do to make sure that I fly the first time? 107 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: The perfectly, said Alianna. Well I can't promise you that, 108 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,840 Speaker 1: said the wizard. But after you try the first time, 109 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: then you'll make a mistake, and that's normal. But then 110 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: you'll be able to correct that mistake. But without you 111 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: trying the first time, I won't know what it is 112 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: that we need to fix. That's just a part of 113 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: the process, said the wizard. You mean I have to 114 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: try it without knowing exactly how it's gonna happen perfectly, 115 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: said Aliana. Oh you mean you haven't tried yet, said 116 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,119 Speaker 1: the wizard. No, but do you promise you won't laugh? 117 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: Said Aliana. Oh of course I won't laugh, said the wizard. 118 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: Elianna stretched out and took a big, deep breath. Gee one, 119 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 1: two three. She started flapping her wings as fast as 120 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: she could, trying to think about everything she had learned 121 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: in all her books, and she got a little off 122 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: the ground and then crashed back down. Oh no, it 123 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: didn't work. My life is over, Elihanna started to cry. 124 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: She thought she would never learn how to fly because 125 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 1: she tried everything that she could that she learned. Oh 126 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 1: that is a great job. Look at what you did, 127 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: said the wizard. You got very high off the ground 128 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: the very first time, much better than my first try. 129 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: You mean you didn't fly your first time, said Aliana. 130 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: Oh why, oh, definitely not. It took me a very 131 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: long time. But you see, you're so close. Just need 132 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 1: to adjust your tail a little bit to the right 133 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 1: and then it's going to work. Try again. Ellianna stretched 134 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: out and started flapp her wings as fast as she 135 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,200 Speaker 1: could and moved her tails with the right and she 136 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: got a little higher off the ground and then she's flying. 137 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: I did it. Great job, Ellianna, said the wizard. And 138 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: that is the day that Ellianna the baby Unicorn, finally 139 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: learned to fly. Have you ever felt nervous about trying 140 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: something for the first time? Oh? Yes, me too, And 141 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: so Ellianna she was so worried about having to do 142 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,600 Speaker 1: it perfect the first time it stopped her from even trying. 143 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: And so if you ever feel that way, if you 144 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:43,679 Speaker 1: ever feel like I don't know if I'll do it right, 145 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:49,199 Speaker 1: you have to try the first time and then learn 146 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 1: from the mistake, and then you will fly just like 147 00:09:53,880 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: Ellianna the end. Hey, friends, I need your help celebrating 148 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: a birthday. Drum roll please, Happy birthday Mason, who's turning 149 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: six years old. Mason loves dinosaurs, laying angry birds, and 150 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: he just earned his second Beltian Martial Arts all he smokes, Mason, 151 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: I'm so glad we got to celebrate you and your 152 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: big day on the show. Happy six birthday. Well friends, 153 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: I hope you all have a super Dober day and 154 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 1: I'll see you on our next adventure. Bye.