My 1st Children's Story

How Tatum and Payton

Learned to Move Again!

Every morning when Tatum and her little sister Payton woke up, they rushed to the big comfy couch in the living room.

Tatum was big enough to turn on the TV and she would find all their favorite shows. Until their mom brought them each a big bowl of rainbow cereal, they would watch four funny creatures sing and dance. This made the girls laugh.

After they were all done eating they would watch cartoons about the amazing adventures of other little kids.

The sisters would sit side-by-side all day long watching daces, hearing stories and even learning a little bit here and there.

By the time that it was dark outside again, they would become bored and first Payton, then Tatum would fall off to sleep on the big comfy couch.

Day after day the sisters sat, eating rainbow cereal and watching TV.

One day when Tatum tried to turn on the TV,

IT DIDN’T WORK!

The sisters looked at each other.

“What are we going to do now?” asked Payton.

“Maybe” said Tatum, “Maybe, we could have adventures like the ones we always see on TV!”

Payton smiled a big smile but then she felt sad inside. “Tatum, in all those adventures, the kids run and jump and climb.”

“So what?” asked Tatum.

“We’ve been sitting here on this big comfy couch for so long, that I don’t think we can move enough for an adventure!” said Payton

“Let me think” said Tatum as she looked out the window.

While she tried to think about how to have an adventure when she couldn’t even move, she watched their neighbor Jasmine roll out a pink mat on her deck and sit down.

While Payton tried to get up off the big comfy couch, Tatum watched their neighbor Jasmine stretch her arms high over her head, then bring her hands together in front of her.

“Payton! I know what we have to do!” said Tatum, filled with excitement. “We have to MOVE”

“But how do we start?” asked Payton.

Tatum took her hand and led her sister out the door and straight to their neighbor, Jasmine’s deck.

“Excuse me?” said Tatum, in her most polite voice. “We have sat and watched too much TV and now we don’t know how to run or jump or climb. We can never have the adventures like the kids on the TV have if we don’t know how to move.”

Jasmine smiled at them both and said, “I think I might have an idea. Before you can run and jump and climb and have all of those adventures, you may just need to learn how your body can move.”

“Can you show us?” asked Payton.

“I will show you how I learn to move and stretch my body. I do something that is called Yoga. For a very long time, people have done Yoga to help their body stretch. But Yoga helps you breath better too and makes your mind calm and happy!”

Jasmine showed the sisters how she practiced Yoga. After just a few minutes, the girls began to feel like they could really move!

From that day on, Tatum and Payton ran, and jumped, and climbed. They had more adventures than even the children on TV had! And they always remembered to do at least a little Yoga every morning.