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Hey

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friends, it's Mr. Jim and welcome

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back to Kid Short Stories. Would

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you like your next birthday party

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to be the best birthday ever?

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Well down in the show notes below,

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we have something really awesome that we

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built for you and your friends. You

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see your party can come to life

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into a real spy adventure. After

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listening to an exclusive story of Dr. Stinkybreath

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stealing a whole bunch of artifacts, it

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will be up to you and your friends to save the day. Well

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are you ready for today's adventure? Me too,

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let's go! It

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was a beautiful day as

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Weston was playing outside. He

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had built something absolutely

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magical. He

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had pulled together a whole bunch

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of branches and things and had actually

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created like a shelter. Have

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you ever seen a shelter built

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out of sticks and leaves

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and branches? Yes,

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Weston is a master shelter

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builder and this one was

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pretty amazing. But all

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of a sudden he heard a sound. Ah!

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What was that? He spun around and

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looked. There was nothing there. And

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then he heard it again. Oh

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I think that's my stomach growling.

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Said Weston. He thought it was

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like a terrifying monster but it was only

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his own tummy. It must

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be snack time if my stomach is

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making these sounds. Alright

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uh shelter I will be back. Said

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Weston as he left his shelter in the

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backyard and walked inside. Mom

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I'm kind of hungry is there something I could have to

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eat? Yeah Weston you can

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pick out a snack in the pantry. I'm

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doing some work. work over here, so are

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you okay on figuring it out on your

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own?" She called out. Yes,

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I can do that. I'm a master

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snack maker, said Weston.

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Weston and his mom had spent a lot of

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time in the kitchen working together, and she had

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taught him how to make a lot of different

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snacks along the way. He

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walked over to the pantry and opened the door. All

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right, all right, what should I... Oh,

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not that, not that. Wait

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a second, what's way back there,

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said Weston, all the

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way back in the back corner of

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the pantry, there's a box of

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Jell-O. I love

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Jell-O, said Weston. He had

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to get up on his tippy toes

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and reach all the way back and

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grab onto the box with just two

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fingers, and there, he

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got it. Oh, I've

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never seen Jell-O that looks like that before. Oh

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well, I'm sure it'll be delicious, said

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Weston. He turned around and

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got all the ingredients and everything ready

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to start making Jell-O. Who

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likes to eat Jell-O? Oh, it's

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pretty delicious, the way it

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jiggles around. Ooh, Jell-O's

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a pretty fun thing. What's your favorite color?

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Hmm, I wonder if that would taste delicious.

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Well, Weston started working very hard.

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Him and his mom had made Jell-O a hundred

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times together, so he was pretty much

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a Jell-O expert. He

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got everything ready, and now it

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was time to wait. He figured

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that instead of staring at the Jell-O

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waiting for it to set, he could

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go outside and finish working on his

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shelter, and then by the time he

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was done, the Jell-O would be ready

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to eat. That's pretty smart,

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because sometimes when you're just like sitting

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there waiting for something to

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happen, those minutes

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can crawl by very slowly, right?

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Yeah, so that's a pretty smart idea. Justin

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went back outside and started working on the roof

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of his shelter. He had to find some more

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large branches that could span

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across the whole top and cover it

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also with some leaves to

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provide shelter from the rain. After

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about 30 minutes he stood back and

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looked at this amazing shelter that he

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had built. Wow this

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is, this might be my best

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one ever. Oh holy

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smokes I think I lost track of time and I

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hope the Jello's ready. Weston

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dropped the three sticks that were in

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his hand and raced inside, eager

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to see if his bright green Jello

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was ready to eat. It

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looks perfect and it looks,

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wow I've never seen Jello

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that bright before. It

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looks almost magical. I

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bet it's absolutely delicious. He

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raced over and grabbed a spoon and

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sat down and took the first bite.

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He carefully scraped his spoon

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into the Jello and watched

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as it carved through like

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a pumpkin. He

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held up a spoon and watched as

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the green Jello jiggled back and forth

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on that spoon. Alright,

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let's test it. Mmm, oh that's

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good. That

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is delicious. And before

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you knew it, Weston gobbled up

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a lot of Jello. That

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was a very special snack. But

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unfortunately, something was

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about to get a little crazy right now. He

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finished the last spoon full of Jello.

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Oh that was delicious. I gotta

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clean up. He put all the

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bowls in the sink and started cleaning up

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from the mess that had happened from the

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creation of the Jello and then all of

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a sudden something strange started happening. Wait

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a second, what's wrong with my

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fingers? It

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feels weird and it's kind of hard to pick it up.