​​Once upon a time in a beautiful forest lived a little mouse, he was a sweet little mouse, and a very funny little mouse...but he was also a concerned little mouse...One morning as he opened his sleepily little eyes to the welcoming rays of sunshine streaming in thru his window he thought today I’d like to go the pond and swim ...after all, it was a bright sunny day...he rushed over to his closet and put his swim shorts and towel in his knapsack...then he put on his T-shirt, and a pair of jeans...but wait...Oh no...Something wasn’t right; he pulled & tugged and squeezed, and even held his little mouse breath...but the jeans didn’t fit!! Oh this can’t be right...they must fit me...with another tug & squeeze he put them on. He did up the button and looked in the mirror...I knew they would fit, he looked at himself in the mighty-tighty jeans...just then he felt a POP...and the button shot like a rocket thru the air and knocked over his favorite toy from the shelf...OMG he thought...OMG OMG...he knew instantly the swim at the pond would have to wait! I must of ate toooo many yummu candies yesterday he thought...He grabbed his runners and made his way to the gym...Hmmm...he'd never been to the gym before, but he was determined, he needed to fit in those jeans! He saw the fox on the treadmill, and thought...looks easy ok i can do it...he climbed on to the empty one next to the fox...he ran, and ran, not as fast as the fox though...he turned up the speed...but it was wayyyyy to fast & he went flying off the treadmill...Ohhhh...he thought, maybe I need to try something else...he saw the rabbit bouncing away on the stairmaster...oh I can do that he thought...and he climbed, and climbed those stairs, but his knees locked and he fell off it....Ohhhh...he thought, maybe I need to try something else...he saw the bear lifting weights...oh i can do that...he strained, and lifted, and his little mouse arm trembled...but the weights were to heavy...and the bear caught them just in time before they fell on the little mouse..."I think you've worked out hard enough today" said the bear...by this time the little mouse was exhausted...he barely made it home, and fell on his bed & didn’t wake up until the next morning...as he tossed out of bed...OUCHHH...he was so stiff and sore, all his little mouse muscles ached, every single one was ouchie sore! He went to the kitchen in his pajamas, getting dressed would be wayyyy to hard without first getting an aspirin...walking like a robot..ouch, ouch...ohhhh...his little brother was already there, eating cereal...then he said "Haxley, mom said she put my jeans in your room by mistake, can I have them back please?".....A light bulb went off in the little mouse’s head...Oh my goodness he thought, laughing out loud..Hahahahaha...those were YOUR jeans?!!! ....whewwww, thank goodness!!! "Sooooo how would you like to go to the pond & swim with me little brother?"...and the two of them spent a wonderful day at the pond...and the little mouse was sooooo relieved that he didn't have to return to the gym again!!! ​​​​​

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