🎶🐣The Happy Hatching Song: a calming bedtime and naptime story for children

0:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Awe Islanders. [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Be Calm on Awe Island. [SPEAKER_00]: Today we are happy to share a favorite story and relaxation with you. [SPEAKER_00]: Before we begin, we want to remind that the grown-ups who are listening, that hundreds of Be Calm on Awe Island episodes are available on Patreon.

0:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Looking for a particular favorite story or special meditation? [SPEAKER_00]: Want stories about dragon or episodes read by a male or female narrator? [SPEAKER_00]: You can find just the right story at patreon.com forward slash away island. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's get ready to relax. [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Away Islanders.

0:50 [SPEAKER_00]: We're so glad you're here. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see if you have everything you want to be calm on Awe Island. [SPEAKER_00]: Are the lights in your room dim or off? [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have your favorite blanket or listening buddy? [SPEAKER_00]: Before we begin our story, [SPEAKER_00]: Let's relax by taking a deep dragon breath, breathe in through your nose, filling up your lungs and then out through your mouth, imagining you are breathing fire like a dragon.

1:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, deep breath in and out. [SPEAKER_00]: good. [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine you are a graceful willow tree, swaying in a gentle breeze. [SPEAKER_00]: Pretend your feet are the roots of the willow tree. [SPEAKER_00]: Feel your roots stretched through the grass and into the [SPEAKER_00]: and you feel safe and secure in the earth's embrace.

2:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Take a deep dragon breath in and out. [SPEAKER_00]: Think of your legs, tummy, and neck. [SPEAKER_00]: As the trunk of the willow tree, warm energy flows up from the earth into your roots and up through your trunk. [SPEAKER_00]: Now pretend that your arms and head are flexible, leafy, willow branches.

3:18 [SPEAKER_00]: as you take one more, deep, dragon breath in and out. [SPEAKER_00]: Great job, everyone. [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you are tucked in nice and cozy. [SPEAKER_00]: And now, we're ready to begin our story. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's be calm on Awe Island. [SPEAKER_00]: Our story today is the happy hatching song.

4:05 [SPEAKER_00]: It was early morning on Awe Island. [SPEAKER_00]: The sky was a dusky purple. [SPEAKER_00]: One by one, the stars winked away, disappearing into the gathering brightness, as the world gradually became lighter and brighter. [SPEAKER_00]: Do cover the grass and plants with freshness. [SPEAKER_00]: The sun began to peek over the horizon.

4:37 [SPEAKER_00]: As the bright orange glowing disk slowly rose up into the sky, the birds began to awaken. [SPEAKER_00]: Churpe, chirp. [SPEAKER_00]: Gentle bird songs and bird calls began to echo across the trees in the quiet little away island neighborhood where Owens' house was. [SPEAKER_00]: Owen was still fast asleep in his cozy bed.

5:07 [SPEAKER_00]: But outside his window, in the little bush right under the window, Jerry Robin was not asleep. [SPEAKER_00]: She was sitting in her snug little nest, but she was wide awake. [SPEAKER_00]: Because a little while ago, she had felt movement underneath her. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry had been sleeping on her eggs all night long to keep them warm.

5:36 [SPEAKER_00]: She knew they would be hatching soon. [SPEAKER_00]: She just wasn't sure exactly when. [SPEAKER_00]: For the last few days, she had sung her lullaby over and over. [SPEAKER_00]: And now, this morning, for the first time, Jerry had felt one of the eggs moving. [SPEAKER_00]: Just a tiny little movement, but Jerry knew it was time.

6:08 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the babies was about to hatch. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry had stayed quiet at first, feeling tiny little movements beneath her every few minutes. [SPEAKER_00]: As long as it was still very dark, Jerry stayed quiet and just rested. [SPEAKER_00]: She knew she would be very busy soon. [SPEAKER_00]: So she wanted to enjoy her last quiet morning for a while.

6:40 [SPEAKER_00]: But as the sun rose and the eggs movements became more frequent and more urgent, Jerry started chirping and singing. [SPEAKER_00]: The song she sang this morning was a new song. [SPEAKER_00]: She hadn't sung this one before. [SPEAKER_00]: This song was full of new happiness and new beginnings, and the other birds recognized it right away.

7:11 [SPEAKER_00]: It was the happy hatching song. [SPEAKER_00]: from her home in the big maple tree across from Owens' house. [SPEAKER_00]: Carrie Cardinal heard the song. [SPEAKER_00]: Her beak widened into a broad smile. [SPEAKER_00]: Excitedly, Carrie flew across the street to the pine tree where Gus Goldfinch lived.

7:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Gus, Gus, said Carrie excitedly, landing on the tree branch where Gus was sleeping. [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, said Gus, who was not really awake yet. [SPEAKER_00]: Gus, wake up, said Carrie again, nudging Gus with her wing. [SPEAKER_00]: No, said Gus, keeping his eyes squinched shut. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, repeated Carrie.

8:06 [SPEAKER_00]: I know you're not an early bird, Gus, but you've got to wake up today. [SPEAKER_00]: What? [SPEAKER_00]: Replied Gus? [SPEAKER_00]: His eyes flying open. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, said Carrie. [SPEAKER_00]: She's singing the happy hatching song. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow, said Gus. [SPEAKER_00]: Now fully awake.

8:31 [SPEAKER_00]: That's awesome. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go say hello and see if she needs anything he added. [SPEAKER_00]: So Gus and Carrie flew across the street to Jerry's bush. [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Jerry, said Carrie. [SPEAKER_00]: I know what song you're singing. [SPEAKER_00]: Congratulations to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, congrats, Gus chimed in.

8:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry smiled up at her friends from her nest and said, thanks you to, I'm pretty excited. [SPEAKER_00]: Shouldn't be long now. [SPEAKER_00]: This little egg is moving around a lot. [SPEAKER_00]: do you want to stay and watch? [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry asked. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yes, replied Carrie and Gus eagerly.

9:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry moved away from the eggs beneath her to the edge of the nest, so she could show Carrie and Gus. [SPEAKER_00]: Sure enough, one of the beautiful blue eggs was moving. [SPEAKER_00]: It wiggled back [SPEAKER_00]: That's Jeffrey, said Jerry probably, he was the first egg I laid, so I figured he'd hatch first.

9:52 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a great name, said Gus. [SPEAKER_00]: Hey Jeffrey, he called to the egg. [SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait to meet you. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry smiled. [SPEAKER_00]: Then Carrie said, it looks like he's going to hatch pretty soon. [SPEAKER_00]: He seems pretty excited about breaking out of that shell.

10:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry nodded and opened her mouth to reply, when suddenly, crack. [SPEAKER_00]: A teeny, tiny little beak popped a hole in the bright blue egg shell. [SPEAKER_00]: He's coming out, said Gus excitedly. [SPEAKER_00]: Little Jeffrey is hatching. [SPEAKER_00]: A tiny little tear of happiness appeared in Jerry's eye.

10:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, she breathed. [SPEAKER_00]: My Jeffrey is hatching now. [SPEAKER_00]: Come on, sweetie. [SPEAKER_00]: You can do it. [SPEAKER_00]: She said, encouragingly. [SPEAKER_00]: Crack. [SPEAKER_00]: Crack. [SPEAKER_00]: inside the little egg, baby Jeffrey chipped his tiny beak against the inside of the egg shell.

11:02 [SPEAKER_00]: From outside, Jerry, Gus, and Carrie watched carefully as the hole in the egg shell slowly got bigger and bigger with each peak of Jeffrey's tiny little beak. [SPEAKER_00]: All three birds began to sing the happy hatching song together. [SPEAKER_00]: to encourage Jeffery to keep cracking away the shell.

11:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry took the melody line. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry took the alto harmony, and Gus sang the bass line. [SPEAKER_00]: Across the street, down on the ground below the pine tree, the bunny family was just waking up. [SPEAKER_00]: Mommy, I think I hear special singing. [SPEAKER_00]: Said one of the baby bunnies.

11:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Me too, said another little bunny. [SPEAKER_00]: What song is that, Mommy? [SPEAKER_00]: I've never heard that one before. [SPEAKER_00]: The mama bunny smiled and said, that's because Jerry Robin hasn't sung it before. [SPEAKER_00]: It's called the happy hatching song, and she's singing it for the first time, because one of her eggs is hatching.

12:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yay, said the baby bunnies. [SPEAKER_00]: Then, mommy, can we meet the new baby bird? [SPEAKER_00]: They asked together. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, replied the mama bunny. [SPEAKER_00]: Later, after the baby bird is born, and Jerry has a chance to rest. [SPEAKER_00]: You can go meet the new baby, but right now, it's time for your breakfast, okay?

12:49 [SPEAKER_00]: The baby bunny's nodded. [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, at Jerry's Nest, little Jeffrey had been working hard to get out of his shell. [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, the whole got so big that all at once, the entire egg split into... [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Jerry could see Jeffree's little body. [SPEAKER_00]: It was a golden brown color with no feathers at all.

13:22 [SPEAKER_00]: There he is. [SPEAKER_00]: My little baby said Jerry happily. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry, Kerry, and Gus continued singing as Jeffree squirmed his waist slowly out of the broken acheshell. [SPEAKER_00]: He wiggled his featherless body back and forth, using his beak and feet as best he could to climb out of the shell.

13:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, with one last big push of his feet, he was out of the shell. [SPEAKER_00]: The three grown-up birds stopped singing to gaze in wonder at the little baby bird. [SPEAKER_00]: Jeffrey tried to stand up, but he wasn't very good standing up yet, so he fell over immediately. [SPEAKER_00]: His eyes were closed, and he wouldn't be able to open them for several days, but he didn't need to see to know that his mommy was right there, and he didn't need to see to be able [SPEAKER_00]: and Jeffrey opened his little beak as wide as he could, and he began to sing.

14:47 [SPEAKER_00]: The little baby bird sang the happy hatching song, and Jerry's heart felt so full of joy and love, she didn't know what to say. [SPEAKER_00]: So instead of saying anything, she just sang. [SPEAKER_00]: She sang the happy hatching song back to her baby, and that was the perfect thing to sing.

15:15 [SPEAKER_00]: for a few minutes, Jerry and Baby Jeffrey sang together, sharing their love and joy in their song. [SPEAKER_00]: Gus and Carrie watched, beaming, before they too began to sing the happy hatching song, with Jerry and Jeffrey. [SPEAKER_00]: After a few minutes of singing all together, Carrie and Gus congratulated Jerry on [SPEAKER_00]: then jerry briefly flew down to the ground to grab some food for baby jeffrey.

15:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Gus and Kerry kept an eye on little jeffrey while Jerry prepared her baby's first breakfast. [SPEAKER_00]: They stayed with her while she fed jeffrey and then Kerry said, Jerry, we're so honored we were here today for jeffrey's hatching. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you need anything else? [SPEAKER_00]: Or shall we let you both rest a while?

16:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry smiled. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, my good friends, she said, I'm so happy you could be here for this special moment. [SPEAKER_00]: A rest would be good for me and Jeffrey. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't need any help right now, but I might later, especially in the next days [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

16:45 [SPEAKER_00]: You're welcome, said Gus. [SPEAKER_00]: May we tell the neighborhood about Jeffrey? [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, of course. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, said Jerry. [SPEAKER_00]: Carrie and Gus both gave Jerry big hugs and they headed off into the bright morning sun to tell the rest of the neighborhood about Jerry's new hatchling.

17:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry settled deep into her nest with baby Jeffrey. [SPEAKER_00]: It was time to take a nap after all the excitement. [SPEAKER_00]: I love you, Jeffrey, saying, Jerry, it wasn't a long song, but it didn't need to be. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry on. [SPEAKER_00]: As she snuggled with little baby Jeffrey, cuddling him in her warm feathers.

17:44 [SPEAKER_00]: For a moment, she stretched out her wings before wrapping them around her new baby again. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry smiled, feeling so happy. [SPEAKER_00]: She thought about everything she had to be grateful for. [SPEAKER_00]: She was grateful for this warm and cozy nest where her eggs could hatch safely.

18:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry took a deep dragon breath in and out. [SPEAKER_00]: She was grateful for her friends, Carrie and Gus, who were so supportive. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry took another deep dragon breath, in and out. [SPEAKER_00]: And slowly closed her eyes. [SPEAKER_00]: and of course, most of all. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry was so grateful for her new baby, Jeffrey, and all her little eggs.

19:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Feeling full of joy and peace. [SPEAKER_00]: Jerry took one last deep dragon breath in and out. [SPEAKER_00]: and Jerry and Baby Jeffrey fell asleep dreaming of singing the happy hatching song together. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for joining us to be calm on Awe Island. [SPEAKER_00]: See you next time.