Ruby's Snowflake

(One day Max and Ruby are standing outside their home. Max catches a snowflake on his tongue) 

Ruby: Ah. Don't you just love snowflakes, Max? They're so beautiful. (catches one: shows it to Max) See?

Max: Snowflake.

Ruby: These snowflakes are nice, but I've got some that are really yummy. Want to see?

(They both go inside. Cut to the kitchen where Max is looking at snowflake cookies) 

Ruby: Grandma and I baked three giant snowflake cookies.

Max: Snowflake!

Ruby: (takes them away) I'm going to decorate them all by myself and surprises Grandma. I want them to be perfect so I have to make sure they're exactly the same.

Max: (reaching for cookies) Snowflake!

Ruby: No way, Max. You can eat a cookie after I've decorated them.

(Max marches away in anger) 

Ruby: Okay, time for an important decision. I can use white icing, red sprinkles and large sugar balls... Hmm, too Christmassy. Or orange icing, green sprinkles and small sugar balls... Nah, too summery. Or pink icing, white sprinkles and medium sugar balls. Perfect! You can never go wrong with pink. Hmmm... I had better test the icing. (Squirts some icing onto her finger) 

(Cut to the living room. Max is playing with his spinning top. It spins all the way over to the other side of the room and knocks over his bow and arrow. It falls on one of Ruby's dolls which makes a crying noise. Max goes over and pokes it. It makes the same noise. He suddenly has an idea.) 

(Cut back to the kitchen. Ruby is putting pink icing on the cookies.)

Ruby: I can't wait to show my perfectly decorated cookies to Grandma! And it won't matter which cookie anyone chooses because they'll all be exactly the same.

(She suddenly hears the doll crying and squirts out too much icing by mistake.)

Ruby: (Gasps) Max!

(She goes into the living room) 

Ruby: Max, why is Cry-baby crying? (Sees the doll and picks it up) Hmm. Max, what are you up to?

(Max goes into the kitchen while Ruby is trying to calm the doll down) 

Ruby: There, there. Hush now, Cry-baby. (She sees Max's bullhorn on the table and gets an idea) Hmm... (Chuckling) 

(In the kitchen Max tries to sneak a cookie) 

Max: Snowflake!

(He suddenly hears a loud noise and freezes in fright. It's Ruby with the bullhorn)

Ruby: Step away from the cookies, Max!

(Max walks away from the cookies with his hands up) 

Ruby: I told you, you can eat a snowflake cookie with Grandma and me after I finish decorating them. Now please let me get back to work.

(Max angrily walks away with his bullhorn) 

Ruby: Little brothers. (looks at the cookies) Hmm. It's not too bad. I can cover up this messy pink icing with white sprinkles!

(She sprinkles some white sprinkles onto the cookies while humming. Cut to the living room. Max fires his arrow and it hits the apple on the windowsill. Max goes over to retrieve his arrow when he sees snowflakes outside the window) 

Max: Snowflake.

(Cut back to the kitchen. Ruby has finished putting sprinkles on) 

Ruby: Perfect! White sprinkles make these cookies look like real snowflakes. Oh, but I need to be careful. I have just enough white sprinkles to make the other two cookies match this one.

(Suddenly Max fires his arrow at the jar of white sprinkles, causing them to spill out on the floor. He then tries to reel the jar of green sprinkles in with his arrow but Ruby stops him.) 

Ruby: (indignant) What are you doing?!

Max: Snowflake!

Ruby: You're way off target, Max. (holds up empty jar) And you made me spill all my white sprinkles! (pushes him out) Why don't you play Emergency Mountain Rescue while I finish decorating the cookies?

(Max leaves once again) 

Ruby: I guess I'll just have to use green sprinkles.

(Cut to Max playing with his remote control helicopter. He presses a button and the helicopter releases a small hook, allowing it to pick up a tiny bunny sitting inside a toy car. Max catches the bunny in his hand. He has another idea. Max sneaks away.)

(Cut to Ruby finishing putting sprinkles on her cookies.) 

Ruby: Green and white sprinkles are definitely the way to go. Time for silver balls! (She puts silver balls on the edges of her snowflakes.) Perfect.

(Max lurks outside the kitchen with his helicopter. Ruby becomes suspicious but soon gets back to work.) 

Ruby: There! Now all I need is a pretty plate to serve them on.

(She goes over to the shelf and finds a large silver platter. Little does she know Max is going into the kitchen with his helicopter in tow) 

Ruby: (takes the large platter down) Just the thing I was looking (sees something) Huh?

(In the platter's reflection Ruby sees Max's helicopter flying away with one of the cookies. She gasps) 

Ruby: (chasing after the helicopter) Bring back that cookie, Max!

(Max follows her while smiling. Ruby chases the helicopter all around the living room. She picks up his bow and arrow and snags the helicopter. While she tries to reel it in, Max presses a button on the remote control. The helicopter drops the cookie and flies away. The cookie falls on the ground and breaks) 

Ruby: Oh no! (looks at Max angrily) 

(Cut back to the kitchen. Ruby and Max look at the cookies) 

Ruby: (sighs sadly) Now none of the cookies are the same.

(Grandma arrives) 

Grandma: Yoo-hoo! Ruby! Is this the house for snowflake cookies?

Ruby: It was until Max and his toys came along!

(Max just shrugs) 

Ruby: I wanted to surprise you with perfectly decorated snowflake cookies but they didn't work out.

Grandma: They are perfect, Ruby! Only you would go to the trouble of making snowflake cookies just like the real thing.

Ruby: What do you mean, Grandma?

Grandma: Well, everyone knows no two snowflakes are alike.

(They all go outside. Grandma catches some snowflakes and shows them to Ruby.) 

Grandma: Look! Every single one is different.

Ruby: All my cookies are different too! So each one is a perfect...

Max: SNOWFLAKE!