Welcome to Makeup, the Kids' Bedtime Stories podcast. I'm your host, Steve. If you like the story I'm about to tell, please subscribe and tell your friends.

Tonight's Make-Up story is a request from a four-year-old listener named Harper. Harper asked for us to make up a story that includes a rainbow-colored piggy,

lizards that can turn into rockets, and an astronaut who lives in another planet. And we're

also going to add a jaguar, and we're also going to add a cow to the story. Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big boy whose name

was Harper. And Harper had his fourth birthday. And for his birthday present, he got a big box in the mail and also a little smaller box he asked his parents for a butter knife to help open the box

and his parents gave him a butter knife and they opened a box together after harper opened it up he saw that it was an aquarium, and that it was like a

big fish tank that he could use to put in different kinds of lizards, and it had a big light on top

to keep the lizards nice and snug and warm, and it also had some rocks inside and pebbles and little itty-bitty

pretend trees for lizards. And then in the other box, there were some lizards. And Harper opened it up

and saw that the lizards fit inside the aquarium.

So Harper got some lizard food with his parents and put it in the aquarium.

And he told the lizards that they'll be his pets and that he'll be so nice to them.

And that night, Harper had dinner and they took the whole fish tank with the lizards in it and the lizards washed them. And that night, Harper had dinner, and they took the whole fish tank with the

lizards in it, and the lizards watched Harper have dinner. Well, the next morning, Harper noticed

that the cover to the aquarium or the fish tank that the lizards lived in was open, and that the

lizards were missing.

Harper told his parents they needed to get some flashlights and look around for the lizards

because the lizards might have crawled out of the fish tank and have been exploring the house

by themselves. Harper's parents said okay, and they gave him a kind of flashlight that was regular, but also it had a blinking mode,

and when you press the button two times, the flashlight started to blink, and if you press the button three times, then the flashlight made a red light, a green light, and a yellow light.

And Harper looked around with his special color flashlight, and under the bed, he found something.

He found so many flies.

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