Merry Christmas Chester !

Chester the chipmunk was tired of being down in his burrow. See, just last month Chester had gotten brave and ventured out past the bushes and had been seen by a human, and chased by a dog!
Chester stretched, and yawned, and wondered. "Should I go out again? What if the dog or that child is still up there?" He held very still and listened. All Chester could hear was a clicking sound.
Click, click, and click. It was a steady sound, but still one he had never heard before. Chester was curious. What do you think Chester did? Yep, he slowly climbed his way out of the hole.
As he came to the top, he could see it was a cold day by the frost on the leaves blown up by the old oak tree. "Brrrrrr" he thought, as he backed down just enough so his nose and little black eyes could still see out, but his little body was still in the warm ground.
Chester's ears were searching for the sound. Then he heard it. Click, click, and click. It was coming from the other side of the bushes. "This time I will wait before I run out there again." he thought.
Good thing he waited, as soon, he saw boots. They were worn by a man who was making the clicking sound. Chester's eyes grew bigger as he watched the man hang something over the bushes.
It was green, like the bushes, but had little light bulbs on it. Chester watched as the man finished, and then walked away. Where was he going? What was this new green thing? Chester was curious.
He crept out of his hiding place and ran under the bush. It was safe there, and he could watch and see what was happening. The man was placing more of these green things on each bush, and now he was hanging them up in the trees.
Chester stayed under the bush all afternoon watching as the man worked in his yard. Then he heard it, the barking. When Chester turned his neck as far to the right as he could without turning around he could see the dog was on the front porch of the humans' home. This time the dog wasn't chasing him! He was barking at something else!
Chester watched as a big yellow bus pulled up in front of the house, and a boy and a girl got off. Before the children had a chance to talk to the man, the dog had bounded over to them, jumping and licking their faces.
Chester could hear something about school being out. "What is school?" Chester thought. The children appeared happy, so Chester was happy for them. Then he heard something about holidays. "What is a holiday?" he said to himself. Chester was curious. Chester watched as the children went inside the house and the man continued his work.
Chester must have gotten very comfortable there under the bush, as the next thing he knew, it was getting dark outside. Chester had never been outside in the night before.
The human family was inside the house; he could see them by the light coming through the windows. Chester wondered what they were doing. It looked like they had a tree inside their house! They did! "Why do they have a tree in their house?" he wondered.
Then the most beautiful thing happened! The tree in the house lit up, there were so many colors! He had never seen anything like that before! Chester's eyes widened to take it all in. "Wow!" was all that came out of Chester's little round mouth.
Then, just as quickly the lights came on outside! Chester looked up toward where the moon usually was, yes, it was still there! The chipmunk then realized that the bushes and trees, and even the humans' house were all glowing! "Oh!" he exclaimed as he saw that even the bush he was under was all different colors.
Chester was scared, but excited all at the same time. He ran around his little hideaway under the bush in little circles trying to figure out if he should stay and look, or go back home.
Instinct told him to go home, so he quickly darted back to his home under the oak tree. Once; down deep under ground, Chester circled his bed one, two, three times before he drifted off to sleep dreaming about all he had seen that day.