Hello everyone! How are you feeling today? I hope that you are having an extra special,  fantastic, terrific, wonderful, excellent and 11 out of 10 rated day today! I am feeling quite happy today! Oh, I am a quite happy teddy every day, but I am feeling extra happy today! Not sure why, not sure what caused it, BUT I did hear from Doctor Teddy that there is a VERY contagious illness that is sweeping through the teddy population and is affecting many teddies! Yes, it is highly infectious! It is... the happiness germs health condition! When you give a smile, the germs from the disease make another teddy smile too! Isn't that soooo funny?! And... the best medicine for it is to eat your favourite comfort food! If you like chocolate, then you eat that ! If you like peanut butter, strawberry jam  and lettuce  sandwiches on multi grain bread, then you can enjoy eating that too! Perhaps you enjoy deep fried mars bars, that are on top of a doughnut that has pineapple icing? You can eat that too!

          Anyway, I am just feeling happy! But...my American teddy friend is even more happy! He is soooo exited because Thanksgiving Day is nearly there in the USA! He is going to go home to his great great teddy grandparents home and celebrate a yummy Thanksgiving meal with his teddy family members !  They are going to have turkey, mashed potatoes, corn, squash cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and HUGELY big slices of apple pies with BIG dollops of cream on it! But my American teddy friend, who is called " Tommy the Thanksgiving Teddy" ( but you can call him Tom if you know him well and are good friends with him ) is a little concerned. His uncle, called Timothy, is a pumpkin grower. He was growing a pumpkin to enter in the World bear Guinness Book of records as having the latest pumpkin! Tommy is worried that Timothy may use his big pumpkin to make the pumpkin pie, and so he won't be able to enter it into the record books! He does though enjoy eating delicious home baked pumpkin pie! It even has cinnamon sprinkled on top of it! Hmm...decisions, decisions... Decision made! Yes , a slice of home baked pumpkin pie is much better than having a name recorded in a record book! 

  Well, I had better be off now. I have some happy singing to do! Hippetty, hoppity, happity, hip hooray! Felicity the frog liking teddy taught me those words!  Isn't she funny! She likes Kermit the Frog, but would be very, very worried if she saw a real life frog! Now that Kermit has broken up with Miss Piggy ( I did hear through the bear grape vine that they are still good friends though  ) I think that Felicity may ask for his autograph! She didn't before, she was afraid that Miss Piggy may get jealous! We wouldn't like to see Miss Piggy when she is upset! 

  Until next time,

    Sing a little song today.

    It may help you feel better than okay.

    Listen to music, watch tv,

    Even eat a big choc chip cookie!

      Your friend,

          Kiosk Ted Strath