More stories from once upon a time.
You'll notice a theme among these stories. Don't worry; she doesn't actually require therapy. They're derived from an alternate version of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" that I told her, called "The Girl Who Cried OWWWIEEE". I made it up when we were going through this phase of Bobbin crying fake tears and claiming to be bleeding. Which we repeatedly found not to be true. None of these is the actual story I told her. Most of it is of her own creation.
As with the previously published stories, these are verbatim. All the words and "punctuation" is hers. I recorded these using a voice recording app I downloaded to my iPhone, and then transcribed them, because I can. I do type that fast. I kept the original recordings because there's some stuff that you can't get from reading them like the tone of her voice, and the dramatic pauses although I've tried to capitalize and insert punctuation to simulate it. It's really not the same though. However I also find it extremely entertaining to just read the stories later. And so I figured that the Grandmas, Grandpas, and Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mikes and other family at the very least would derive some pleasure from reading them and imagining her voice and facial expressions and hand gestures (the latter two of which you don't get from the voice recordings either, obviously! ;-)
We were home sick today and she went on a story telling rampage to help pass the time since I wouldn't let her run, bounce, tumble, skip, hop, climb, or jump because she would erupt in fits of coughing whenever she did. So after hours of colouring pictures, and then hours of watching movies, she decided to tell her own stories to entertain the two of us. You'll see that she runs out of steam near the end of each story and the stories themselves get shorter and shorter as the day wore on. I kinda like the effect.
The Girl who Ignored (sometimes also entitled "The Cannibal Chicken")
Once upon a time there was a little girl who liked to play down by the beach. And she went down to the beach. She played alone. She was very, very bored. She liked to ignore people a lot. She ignored people by saying "GO AWAY!" And she liked to be mean to each other. And she was a little girl and she loooooved her Mommy and Daddy and she came and asked her Mommy and Daddy if they could play with her, and she asked her Mommy "Can you please play with me?" and the Mommy said "No, I have to milk the chickens -- I mean feed the chickens some eggs." And then she ran over to her Daddy and said "Dad; Daddy can you play with me?" And he said "No, I have to milk the cows." And she just said "Hmmm. I think that I could ignore them." And she went over by the river, the beach I mean, and she said "GO AWAY!" And everybody came running away from her. And she was really, really bored. She liked to ignore people a lot so one day so she went down by the river where she likeded to go and she called "GO AWAY!" And something happened to her. And she cried "OWWIEEEEE" and everybody came running.
And that's the end.
The Rainbow Dancer and the Biting Dog
Once upon a time there lived a little girl that loved dancing in the rainbows, and she had no rainbows at her house 'cause she was being mean all the time. And her doggie had to listen to the rules and the little girl asked him, 'cause she had no mommy and daddy, and she thought she asked him to bite. And they didn't really bite and they didn't really listen to the words. And in the story, that was the end.
The Girl who Screamed 'OWWIEEEE'
One day there was a little, little, tiny girl. She used to be lonely. But one day long ago she thought to scream "owie". And she said "OWIEEEEE" and everybody dropped their things. They came running, running, running. They said "What's wrong?" and then the person said "Nothing's wrong. I was just bored and I wanted my Mommy and Daddy to cook me dinner and there's nobody to cook me dinner". And her Mommy and Daddy said "That's not ok. go to your room." And she went to her room and she was feeling lonely again and she thought that she'd ask her Mommy and Daddy. So she went outside and she drawed a picture and she thought to call "owie" and she said "OWIEEEEE" and everybody dropped their toys and they came running again really, really fast. And they got there to the river and they said "What's wrong?" And she said "Nothing's wrong. There's just a dinosaur pulling my hair." And the Mommy and Daddy said "That's not ok. Go to your room." She went to her room. The next morning she went up and waked up. She got her jammies off and put her clothes on and she thought she'd colour a picture outside and she thought she would call "Mommy", I mean, "owie" and she called "OWIEEEEE" and everybody in their beautiful dresses came and dropped their things and ran and ran as fast as they can and they finally got there and they said "What's wrong?" She said "I put my foot on a rock and rolled." And it didn't really happen. So she went to her room lonely again. And the Mommy and the Daddy lived happily ever after. That is the end of the story.
The Lonely Woodcutter
Once upon a time there was a woodcutter that was very lonely. And he was very, very sad. He had no kids or mom and dad. He was just an old woodcutter that was very lonely. So when he called out for a friend that he could play with nobody came. And there was no one the same age like him. And that's the end.
The Famous Colouring Prince
One day a little boy had a king and queen and he was a famous prince. And he loved his Mom and Dad and played by the river a lot. And he loved to colour. The End.
Comments
We want video.
Posted by Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mike on April 2, 2009 11:27 AM.