Family Tree Topsy and Tim

# This is our street

# It's where we live

# We love to play together

# Just like you

-# Just like us... #

-Run, Topsy!

# And we'll be friends forever... #

Go, Tim.

# We can be anything

# If we close our eyes and dream

# We can play day after day

# And the fun will never end

# This is our street

# It's where we live

# So let's all play together

# Be best friends forever. #

BOTH: Hello! It's us!

-Topsy...

-And Tim!

Grandma's carrying a tree. Come on.

BOTH: Hi, Grandma!

Ooh, steady!

Is that a real tree?

Yes, a little apple tree.

It's a present for your garden.

It's perfect. Thank you, Jean. I'll take it.

Tim! Come and see!

It's quite small for a tree, Grandma.

That's because it's a sapling. It's a baby tree, Topsy.

Tim! Tim! Come and see! Grandma's brought us a baby tree.

Where is Tim?

He's in his bedroom.

Tim's cross because he wanted to play with Tony.

But I told him he couldn't because you were coming with the tree.

Ah. I'll go and see him.

Mummy, will that little tree grow apples?

Yes, it will.

Wait just one minute, Topsy,

and I will show you.

Come and have a look on the computer with me.

Good girl.

-Spinny chair!

-Right, are you going to sit on my lap?

-Yeah.

OK.

There.

Our little tree will grow apples like this.

And when it's fully grown, it might even get as big as...

..this.

Whoa, that tree has got a lot of apples.

It really does and if we want our little apple tree to get

apples like that, we need to dig a big hole in the garden and plant it.

Please can we do that now, Mummy?

-Yes, of course we can. And maybe Grandma and Tim will help.

-Yes.

You get your apron on,

and I will get the boots and the garden gloves.

Why are you upset, Tim?

Come on, you can tell Grandma.

Well, I really wanted to go and see my friend Tony today.

He's moving away and I might not see him again.

Oh, of course you'll still see him, Tim.

He's not moving far away.

And you're such good friends.

Come on. I know something that will cheer you up.

What?

I'll show you.

Just trust Grandma, OK?

I trust you, Grandma.

Come on.

Grandma tells me to find Mossy's plastic tub of treats.

-Here it is.

-Perfect.

I'll have to find another tub for Mossy's biscuits.

We need this one today.

Why?

Because this tub has now become our memory box.

-A memory box?

-Yes.

A box where we put memories we want to keep forever.

Why?

Because it's nice to look back and remember happy times.

What happy times can you remember sharing with Tony?

Lots.

I'm going to find great things to put in the memory box.

I'll show you.

I'll find things upstairs.

I've kept two funny things that I did with Tony under my bed.

Our cardboard twin Tim. Tony and I danced with it.

And our horse's head, made from a welly boot.

These are for the memory box, Grandma.

Oh good, but... Oh, dear. Look, they're too big.

They have to fit inside Mossy's treat tub, remember?

They won't fit in.

You'll have to find smaller things. Can you help me clear the table?

Hi, Tim. We've been digging in the garden.

Take your boots off and wash your hands, please.

Let me take your gloves. Good girl.

Tim, you should come and see our baby apple tree

and the hole we've dug for it.

Oh, not just yet, Topsy. Tim's busy.

He's helping me make a memory box with this.

But that's Mossy's treat tub.

Not any more.

I'll buy Mossy a new treat tub.

Tim is putting things in this that remind him of happy times.

What a wonderful idea.

I want to help with the memory box. I know what can go in.

Oh, your nursery school photo.

Look.

Everyone came to our house that day.

Oh, yes. Tony's dad took the photo.

And look at the funny face Tony's making.

Whoo!

Let's put this in.

Tim, are you wearing odd socks?

Oh, yes, look.

I swapped one of mine with Tony.

It's got a hole in it, look.

-THEY LAUGH

-Tony the toe.

Why don't you put your Tony sock in the memory box?

Oh, yeah.

And I know what else can go in.

We put lots of fun things in the memory box.

I found a piece of the marble run that we made with Tony and Vinda

and I put it in the box.

Our memory box is full of happy memories.

-Done!

-Done.

Really? Well, this memory box is now ready to be hidden.

-Hidden?

-Why?

Well, that's the point.

You put it somewhere to keep your memories safe.

And they stay there until you grow up.

-There you go.

-Thank you.

And I have a very good idea of the perfect hiding place.

Where, Grandma?

Follow me. Wellies on first.

Oh, brilliant. Come on.

First, we put the baby apple tree in the big hole that Topsy has dug.

Is it in? There we go. That's good.

There we go.

That's it.

It's over there, Tim.

That's it. Stamp it down.

Right.

We plant our memory box under the tree.

There we are.

There you go, memory box.

Enjoy your new home.

I love where we've put our memory box.

And I love our new apple tree, Grandma.

Making a memory box about Tony was just as good

as playing at Tony's house.

Oh, good.

Thank you, Jean, for such a lovely fun day.

-Oh, it looks so good there.

-It's really good.

When we look out of the window, our baby apple tree looks really happy.

One day we might dig up our memory box that's underneath it.

But only when we're older and our apple tree has grown.

You know, trees take a long time to grow

and there won't be apples for a few years yet.

We have to wait until it gets much bigger.

Like you, Mummy?

Bigger than me.

-This big?

-That's when Grandma said...

BOTH: You should measure yourselves right now.

You should measure yourselves right now.

Then you'll always know how tall you were

when you planted your tree and your memory box.

-Yeah, me first!

-And then me!

Well, guess who I am going to measure first?

BOTH: Um...

-Me?

-Me?

Not Topsy. And not Tim.

You?

-Grandma.

-Me?

Come on, Grandma.

"And that," said Mummy, "was that."

-BOTH: Hello.

-Are you good at remembering?

Can you remember what happened to us today?

This is our Topsy and Tim memory game.

Let's play.

Today we planted a tree in our garden.

Can you remember what else we planted in the garden?

Was it a memory box?

Or was it Mossy's ball?

The answer is behind Wiggles the rabbit.

The answer is a memory box.

Watch this.

Oh, brilliant. Come on.

OK.

First, we put the baby apple tree in the big hole that Topsy has dug.

-Put it down.

-There we go.

That's good.

There we go.

I tell you what you need to do now...

Good, Mummy. It's over there, Tim.

That's it. Stamp it down.

Right.

Then we plant our memory box right under the tree.

There we are. Great game.

That was good fun.

See you soon.

# We can play

# Day after day

# And the fun will never end

# So let's all play together

# Be best friends forever. #