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Tonight's Make-Up story is a request by a boy named Leopold, who is four years old, but is going to be five years old in just a few weeks.

Almost happy birthday, Leopold.

Leopold asked for us to make up a story that includes a desert an elephant and a

chameleon and we are going to add a hot air balloon to the story once upon a time a long ago, there was a four and a half year old named

Leopold. Really, Leopold was even more than four and a half years old because he was almost

five years old. But not a lot of other kids knew that it was going to be Leopold's birthday.

And Leopold's mama had a special plan for Leopold's birthday. The plan was, when Leopold

woke up that day, she was going to make him pancakes with maple syrup, and pancakes is a kind of breakfast

that could be very yummy if there's maple syrup on it. And then, after breakfast, Leopold planned

to go in a hot air balloon. A hot air balloon is a kind of balloon that is so big, it's even bigger than

a house. And on the bottom of the balloon, there's a basket. And the basket is big. It's big enough to

hold people. And people could go in the bottom of the basket and they have a little candle or a big candle

or a torch right by them and that that makes some fire go and the fire goes up and the air gets hot

in the hot air balloon and the basket that the people go in goes up in the air. And if you go in the basket in a hot air

balloon and you're a kid, or even if you're a grown up, then you can go up in the air and it's

just like you're flying because you're in a basket and you don't even need wings. But the basket has to be

ginormous. But the basket has to be big enough so that you could walk around and stuff, because

if it's not big enough for kids to walk around, then it's not fun, because then you

would just have to stay in the same place.

So when it was, yeah, so when it was Leopold's birthday, leopold went with his mom to a big soccer field a soccer field

is a place where grown-ups and kids like to play soccer that's kicking a ball and some people

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