Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to bedtime stories with mister jim O.
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready for bed, are you as well?
Speaker 1: Oh good? I hope you brushed your teeth and found
Speaker 1: all of your comfy things like pillows and blankets and stuffies.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh good. Well, as long as you have
Speaker 1: all those things ready, then it's time for our story.
Speaker 1: But first we must close our eyes so that we
Speaker 1: can travel to an imaginary world. On the first day
Speaker 1: of Spring of Fluffy little cottontail bunny was born. Her
Speaker 1: mom named her Quinn since she arrived on the spring equinox.
Speaker 1: Quinn was a happy little bunny and enjoy doing the
Speaker 1: same things that most bunnies did. She liked to hop
Speaker 1: around eating grass and berries with her mama and Papa
Speaker 1: Bunny and all of her bunny siblings. She spent her
Speaker 1: days bouncing through fields and playing by the streams. At night,
Speaker 1: Quinn and her family would return to their burrow together,
Speaker 1: but when other bunnies would be snuggling up for sleep,
Speaker 1: Quinn's family was still awake and very busy. Each spring night,
Speaker 1: before they went to sleep, the bunny family had to
Speaker 1: paint Easter eggs. They would pile them in their burrow
Speaker 1: and grabbed their paint brushes. Quinn loved to paint the
Speaker 1: eggs in fun patterns, rainbows, polka dots, stripes. Sometimes she
Speaker 1: would even paint little self portraits of her fuzzy brown face.
Speaker 1: It was all hard work, but Quinn and her family
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. They took their responsibilities as Easter bunnies very seriously.
Speaker 1: She painted eggs right up until she fell asleep. Mama
Speaker 1: Bunny took the pink brush from Quinn's fuzzy paw, and
Speaker 1: soon the rest of the family joined her, and everyone
Speaker 1: snuggled up for bed. The next morning, Quinn was hopping
Speaker 1: through the forest when she came across the most beautiful
Speaker 1: flower patch she had ever seen. She collected flowers in
Speaker 1: shades of strawberry red and sunshine yellow, bringing them back
Speaker 1: to her burrow and to admire some more. That night,
Speaker 1: while they were painting, Quinn's little brother Knox, accidentally spilled
Speaker 1: paint on himself, coating his white paws in rainbows. While
Speaker 1: mother helped clean him up, Quinn hopped over to a
Speaker 1: pile of unfinished eggs to stretch her bunny legs. She
Speaker 1: admired the different colors from all their hard work. Quinn
Speaker 1: reached a fuzzy paw out for a pretty polka dot
Speaker 1: dotted egg. As she plucked it from its spot, the
Speaker 1: pile began to wobble. Oh, whispered Quinn. A purple painted
Speaker 1: egg rolled itself down the pile, clinking as it went
Speaker 1: when it hit the ground. The egg continued fast towards
Speaker 1: the table with her red and yellow flowers. Clunk. It
Speaker 1: came to a loud stop as it hit the table leg.
Speaker 1: Then the egg split in half. Oh no, Quinn whispered.
Speaker 1: As she scrambled to pick it up. A flower petal
Speaker 1: floated down on top of it. Without thinking much about it,
Speaker 1: she plucked the rest of the flower and stuck it
Speaker 1: inside the egg. Then she pushed the two halves together
Speaker 1: and hoped they would stay with a little Easter bunny magic.
Speaker 1: They did. Quhen, what was that noise? Mother bunny asked, No, nothing,
Speaker 1: It's fine, called back Quinn. She quickly added the egg
Speaker 1: back to the pile and hopped back to paint more
Speaker 1: with her family. The rest of the night. Quinn thought
Speaker 1: about the flower inside the egg. What a neat surprise
Speaker 1: for whoever finds that Easter egg During the hunt. She thought,
Speaker 1: how exciting would it be if all the eggs had
Speaker 1: a surprise inside. Quinn decided that night to return to
Speaker 1: the pile of painted eggs once everyone was sleeping. She
Speaker 1: tiptoed her way toward the pile and plucked the first
Speaker 1: egg out of it. It rumbled and an egg turned down.
Speaker 1: She pulled another, and two more tumbled after it. As
Speaker 1: she pulled more, even more painted eggs rolled away, racing
Speaker 1: toward the wall and cracking perfectly in half. Quinn collected
Speaker 1: the rest of her flowers and placed either a red
Speaker 1: or yellow one gently into one half of the egg,
Speaker 1: then sealed them with Easter bunny magic. When she ran
Speaker 1: out of flowers, she began adding whatever she found around
Speaker 1: the house. Eggs were filled with berries, nuts, tiny wooden toys,
Speaker 1: and more. Quinn looked upon the newly piled eggs proudly,
Speaker 1: excited for the surprises inside to be revealed. After weeks
Speaker 1: of painting eggs and Quinn secretly filling them, it was time.
Speaker 1: The Easter bunny family gathered their baskets and filled them
Speaker 1: to the brim with eggs. Then they hopped out of
Speaker 1: their burrow, spread out all around the forest and fields
Speaker 1: to hide them, Quinn placed her eggs underneath bushes, in
Speaker 1: flower patches, nestled between rocks by the stream. When all
Speaker 1: of the eggs had been hidden, the Easter Bunny family
Speaker 1: hopped home with their empty baskets for some much needed rest.
Speaker 1: As Quinn cuddled in her burrow with her Mamma Bunny,
Speaker 1: Papa Bunny, and brothers and sisters, she smiled as she
Speaker 1: dreamed of the egg hunt and all the happy animals
Speaker 1: of the forest. She hoped the animals enjoyed their surprises
Speaker 1: when they opened their eggs. As Quinn dozed, Mama Bunny
Speaker 1: padded Quinn's ears. She knew all along what her daughter
Speaker 1: had been doing, and she was happy for her for
Speaker 1: discovering a way to make their Eastern traditions even more special. Well,
Speaker 1: my friends, as we all close our eyes and get
Speaker 1: all comfy, may you have very happy dreams. Good night,