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Audrey wanted to do something nice for her mom.

She’d been making some dreadful messes lately.

One day, she’d found a can of silly string and sprayed it all over her bedroom, making sure to get most of it in her hair.

Another time, she’d pulled the flour canister down from the counter and scattered it all over the floor and made “snow angels”.

And the other day, she’d tried to make chocolate milk with cocoa powder and sugar.

Not only did she make a mess of the counter, she’d managed to spill a whole gallon of milk, half the cocoa powder and most of the sugar in the canister all over the kitchen floor.

The kitchen had been a milky, sticky, chocolatey disaster.

She had a pretty patient mom, but by the third mess, she had had enough.

“Audrey, could you please try to be more careful?” she had asked.

So after breakfast, when her mom was getting ready for the day, Audrey decided to do the dishes. Thinking it would be a nice surprise for her mom.

She went to the bathroom to get her special bottle of soap, thinking that her friends, the Bubblebath Kids, would enjoy helping her.

When Audrey had poured quite a bit of soap into the warm water and all over the dirty dishes, the Bubblebath Kids bounced to the surface giggling in delight.

“There are so many of you!” Audrey exclaimed, never having seen such a crowd of kids at once.

They laughed and said, “Well, usually your mom only squirts a little bit in the tub. You’ve poured in half the bottle!”

Audrey laughed as she watched more and more Bubblebath Kids pop to the surface of the water.

Her giggles soon stopped as the bubbles grew and spread across the counter and onto the floor.

“Audrey!” squeaked one of the kids. “Turn the water off!”

She snapped out of the daze she was in and quickly turned the water off, but the bubbles just wouldn’t stop spreading.

“Oh no!” she cried. “Now I’ve made a bigger mess. And I was only trying to do something nice for Mom!”

“Don’t worry Audrey, we’ll help! We always do!” they all sang at once.

Then the kids began to pop out of their bubbles and clean up the wreckage.

When the dishes were finished and the kitchen was sparkling, the Bubblebath Kids turned to look at Audrey. They smiled and said, “See you upstairs soon!”

Audrey looked down at her pajamas. Syrup and bits of pancake covered her pajamas and face. Her hands, having just been soaked in soapy water, were the only clean part of her.

As Audrey’s mom walked back into the kitchen, the last of the kids slid into the bottle of bubblebath.

“Audrey! What a lovely surprise! Thank you very much!” her mom joyfully exclaimed.

Smiling, Audrey picked up the bottle of soap

“Mom, can I take a bath now?”

Audrey sat looking out the window with a smile on her face.

Rain pitter-pattered on the glass.

It splooshed and splashed.

Audrey waited patiently for it to stop so she could go outside and play.

As soon as it stopped, Audrey grabbed her raincoat and raced outside.

She jumped in a puddle with both feet.

She ran around kicking water and mud, splattering it on her pants, coat and face.

Getting it everywhere.

She was just about to make a mud angel when her mom came outside.

“Audrey!” she exclaimed. “What are you doing?”

“I’m playing, Mommy.”

Instead of getting upset, Audrey’s mom smiled.

Instead of getting angry, Audrey’s mom laughed.

“Oh Audrey,” she sighed. “Let’s go inside, clean you up and make a mud pie.”

***

Bubbly giggles came from the bathtub.

The Bubblebath Kids were busy swirling and whirling around Audrey, washing away all the mud and grime.

“The messier the better, Audrey!”

Audrey laughed, sloshing water out of the tub.

“Ok kids! Mom and I are going to make a mud pie,” Audrey told them.

“Tee-hee,” the Bubblebath Kids chortled, knowing that Audrey would be back soon.

Hair still dripping, Audrey bounced down the steps and into the kitchen where her mom was getting ingredients out for the mud pie.

“First, we need a package of instant chocolate pudding,” she said.

“Next, a cup and a half of milk, 2 cups of thawed Cool Whip and a chocolate pie crust.”

Audrey’s stomach growled as her mom mixed the milk and pudding together.

She waited patiently. The two minutes it took seemed to last for hours.

Finally, Audrey’s mom stirred the Cool Whip into the mix and handed Audrey the spoon to lick.

She used a clean spoon to spread the rest of the Cool Whip over the top of the pie and then placed it in the fridge.

“There. Now we wait a few hours,” she said, turning to Audrey and grinning at the sight of her. She had the spoon and bowl in either hand and her face, arms and hair was coated in chocolate and cream.

“Looks like you need another bath!”

Audrey raced up the stairs, beaming with excitement.

The Bubblebath Kids bobbed to the surface, beaming.

“We knew you’d be back soon!” they sang, smiling wide.

In a yellow house with blue shutters lived a girl named Audrey.

Audrey liked many things.

She liked eating strawberries.

She liked swinging and sliding.

She liked twirling round and round in the sun.

But there was one thing she liked to do more than anything else…

Audrey loved taking baths.

Audrey would find any excuse to take a bath.

If she was eating icecream…she would bite off the bottom of the sugar cone and let the gooey mess drip drop all over her.

If she was playing outside, she would find a mud puddle and jump and twirl through the muddy mess.

Her mother would just shake her head as she started the bath water.

She would sigh as she poured the bubbles into the tub.

She would smile knowingly as she placed Audrey in the water.

And once Audrey was in the water…well, that was when the magic would happen.

In a yellow house with blue shutters lived a girl named Audrey.

Audrey liked many things.

She liked eating strawberries.

She liked swinging and sliding.

She liked twirling round and round in the sun.

But there was one thing she liked to do more than anything else…

Audrey loved taking baths.

Audrey would find any excuse to take a bath.

If she was eating icecream…she would bite off the bottom of the sugar cone and let the gooey mess drip drop all over her.

If she was playing outside, she would find a mud puddle and splish splash through the dirty mess.

Her mother would just shake her head as she started the bath water.

She would sigh as she poured the bubbles into the tub.

She would smile knowingly as she placed Audrey in the water.

And once Audrey was in the water…well, that was when the magic would happen.