My toddler has been obsessed with my shortened version of the Three Little Pigs I’ve been telling him lately at bedtime.
It has been hard to get him to understand that it’s a story “in Mama’s head” and that I don’t have a book for it to show him, but he has slowly been coming around to that part as well.
Last night it seems to have clicked a little more for him, because he requested the story of the Three Little Sheep.
The only problem is, there is no three little sheep story.
I have never told him one anyway. But he apparently has reasoned that if Mama has the three little pigs in her head, she must have the three little sheep too.
Of course, I couldn’t let him down! Not when he has such confidence in Mama’s head stories!
So here is the majorly on-the-fly Three Little Sheep story I came up with at his bedside last night. Enjoy!
Once upon a time (or once a pony time), there were THREE little sheep. Their names were BAA, BEH, and BO, and they lived on Old MacDonald’s farm.
One day, Baa decided to go out and find some new grass to eat. He went searching and searching until he found a field of BLUE grass!
So Baa ate the blue grass, MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH! And the blue grass turned Baa BLUE!
He was so shocked he ran into the woods and hid!
Then one day, Beh decided to go out and find some new grass to eat. He went searching and searching until he found a field of RED grass!
So Beh ate the red grass, MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH! And the red grass turned Beh RED!
He was so shocked he ran into the woods and hid!
Then one day, Bo decided to go out and find some new grass to eat. He went searching and searching until he found a field of PURPLE grass!
So Bo ate the purple grass, MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH! And the purple grass turned Bo PURPLE!
He was so shocked he ran into the woods and hid!
Old MacDonald went out to his fields and saw that all his sheep were gone! WHERE ARE ALL MY SHEEP?! Old MacDonald said!
He went searching and searching in the woods until he found his THREE RAINBOW SHEEP!
And he took them home and used their wool to make rainbow sweaters for all the animals on the farm!
And the Three Little Sheep lived…
HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!!
Please send positive vibes that he doesn’t request anymore stories about farm animals in groups of three. I’m not sure how many more of these I have in me!
—Ash
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