Welcome back to MakeDup, the kids' bedtime stories podcast. I make up new stories every night

without preparing to put my five-year-old son to bed. And right now, we're ready for today's story.

So buckle up. Get ready. Get set. Go. Makeup story time begin. So today's story request comes from a big girl named Sidney, and Sidney asked for us to make up a story that includes a mermaid, a cupcake, and a manatee, which is a type of sea animal.

And we are also going to add...

Um, house, astronaut, mailbox.

So we're also going to add a house, an astronaut, and a mailbox to this story.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there was a big girl whose name was Sidney.

And Sidney used to like to go on walks with her mom, especially on the weekend.

And one day, Sidney was out walking with her mom, and she had some juice in a backpack,

and also some crackers.

And while she was walking with her mom, she saw that there was a swampy river that they had

never seen before.

And she told her mom that they should go see what's there.

And her mom held Sidney's hand and they walked towards it.

When they got towards it, they saw that it was empty.

But suddenly there was a big straw that was reaching into that big swampy pond, and the big straw slurped up the whole pond, and they looked at what was on top of the straw, and Sidney and her mom saw a giant. The giant was so high that his knees went up to the clouds.

And his shoulders were so high they could almost reach the moon.

And he slurped up the whole pond by himself.

So Sidney told her mom that some sea animals might be stuck

because the whole swampy place was slurped up and now it was dry. And her mom said,

Sidney, you're right. We should try to save the day. So Sydney and her mom walked into the

dry part where the lake used to be. And when they walked in, they saw that there was a mermaid.

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