Mariposa Kisses (aka Dianne's Blog)

Once upon a time, there was a dinosaur named Whiny. She whined so much that her family called her a whiny-saurus.

Whiny was four years old and she was very smart. She could color between the lines on her princess coloring pages and knew all twenty-six letters from the alphabet.

Her favorite color was pink and she loved to twirl and dance. Ballet was her favorite, of course!

She had a fabulous twinkle in her eyes and a contagious smile that made everyone around her smile back. But, when she wanted something from her mom, she always whined and cried.

One day, she demanded a snack from her mom. She whined and pleaded and begged, but never once said, "Please." And she never asked in a nice voice either.

So her mom lovingly replied, "I won't give you anything you ask for if you ask for it with a whiny voice."

So, Whiny decided to make her request with laughter instead of a complaint. She thought, "If I really want my mom to give me what I want, then I have to make her laugh."

The next day, she started laughing so hard, that boogers flew out of her nose. Tears flooded down her face as well.

Everyone around her started laughing along with her too, even her mom. But what they couldn't figure out was the hilarious joke that was making Whiny laugh so hard.

Whiny's mom asked her why she was laughing. But at this point, Whiny simply could not stop laughing. She chuckled and squealed for fourteen days until she finally fell fast asleep from exhaustion.

She snored a lot while she slept. It must have been from losing all of those boogers from all of that laughter.

When she finally woke up a few days later, she was hungrier than ever. So she asked her mother for a snack. But this time, she said, "Please" and she did not whine.

Since she had finally settled down, she told her mom the thing that had made her laugh so hard. Can you guess what it was?

Whiny had pictured her mom wearing some purple polka-dot underwear along with some fluffy giraffe slippers on her feet.

She also thought up some large green and pink striped hair clips on her head and some yellow feather sunglasses to protect her mom's eyes from the sun.

The picture in her head also dressed her mom with long blue earrings shaped like hot dogs and a white long-sleeve t-shirt with a yellow dancing rhino upon it.

Her mom smiled and hugged Whiny. She also gave her some pretzels and an apple because she had finally asked for a snack without whining.

Everyone loved the new Whiny and they even changed her name to Laughy, for all the laughter she was now bringing into their lives.

The end! :)

Labels: children's story, family, kids