So to wrap up our mother/daughter night, we played for a bit past her bedtime in a dimly lit living room and talked a lot about random things...no TV.

Then Ellie brought up the monsters again.  She is determined that there are monsters...even though I have told her that I banished them all from the kingdom. 

Then she asked me to tell her the story...

        ...ya, I'm gonna share it with you now...

Once upon a time there were all these little monsters that were just running wild!  They were about twelve inches tall.  They came in all different colors.  Their teeth were rotted and black because they never brushed them, and their  silly little eyes were crossed.  (Ellie added that they had funny little legs and tiny arms...but normal fingers!)

The monsters were a menace and So terribly annoying!  They would tear into the cupboards and eat our food...but they would only take a few bites and throw it on the floor, leave it on the counter...they were slobs.  Then they would slide across the counter tops and tables and knock every thing to the floor breaking anything in their path.  They also loved to terrorize the cat and sneak up on the sleeping dogs yelling, "BOO!" to make them jump! (El liked that part!)

Finally mommy had had enough of these messy little trouble makers.  I grabbed two dirty old red sneakers and I began banging them together loudly!  I chased them out of our house!  The other monsters on the road were scared of the loud noise too, so they all ran out into the street and mommy chased them right on down and off of our road! 

Then I got a red sign that read STOP! and I banged it into the ground at the end of the road with one of my dirty red shoes, and I told the little monsters, "Don't you ever come back!  I banish you from the Berkshire!"

And they have never returned...

        The END



[Maybe not my best told story, but it was off the cuff after a long day and my daughter loved it.]