Happy Valentines Day Chester!

Chester had just finished eating his lunch when he saw a big red heart on his calendar. Looking closer, he noticed that the very next day was Valentines Day. Chester thought about Valentines Day while he washed his face and paws. A smile lifted his whiskers as he remembered this day last year. Chester and his friend, Dart the bluebird had found a bag of candy hearts. Each heart was a different color and each had a message on them. Together, Chester and Dart gave one to each friend they met that day. What a great day that was!
Chester was happy as he prepared for a nap. Chipmunks take lots of naps. It is one of their favorite things to do. Sometime between brushing his teeth and fluffing his bed of leaves, Chester remembered he wasn’t ready for Valentines Day. He hadn’t seen Dart today, and he didn’t have any candy to give away!
“What will I do?” thought Chester; “and where will I find a valentine gift?’ Chester sat down on the edge of his bed and put his head in his paws so he could think. Soon his left ear began to twitch, then his right ear. He had an idea!
“I will make a special valentine all by myself!” he said aloud. Chester’s excitement grew as he thought about his friends and family and the gifts he would make for them. “Hmmm… there is Mom, Dad, my little brother Boomer, and my best friends Dart and Turtle.” Chester said to himself as he scampered down one of his tunnels.
He ran to the left, then to the right, all the way to the end where he stopped. There it was – Chester’s treasure room! Inside this room Chester’s ‘treasures’ were stacked on little shelves. See, Chester likes to collect things. Almost every time Chester goes out he finds something interesting to bring home. Just last week he found a ribbon under some leaves, a dime, and a shiny gold button over by the lake. On gloomy days Chester liked to come down to his treasure room and just look everything over, and wonder what it was. Thanks to Dart and Turtle he learned what most of them had been used for, but he couldn’t understand why anyone would leave them in the woods.
As Chester looked around his room, he found several things that his friends and family might like to have. Chester got very busy, he cleaned, he scrubbed and he created. Several hours later, the very sleepy chipmunk was finished!
Chester filled his little wagon with his valentine gifts, and pulled it up through the tunnels back to his bedroom. There was a small pink mirror for his Mom, a warm scarf for his Dad, a shiny red toy car for Boomer, and special handmade Valentine cards for Dart and Turtle. As he snuggled under the leaves he thought about all the fun he would have giving his friends and family the valentines he made all by himself! Sweet Dreams Chester!