My Birthday Surprise

was created especially for

{First Name} {Middle Name} {Last Name}
at the age of {Age}

{Dedication}
{Book From}
{Date of Gift}

{First Name or Nickname} {Last Name} was so excited! Her "big" day had finally arrived! For a long time, she had reminded everyone in {Hometown} about her birthday on {Birthday}. {First Name or Nickname} had not wanted a single person to forget this special day. It's so much fun to be {Age} and have a birthday celebration!

For months now, {First Name or Nickname} had been dreaming day and night about her party. She had asked her friends again and again, "Do you suppose it will ever be my birthday?" There were many names on her invitation list. {First Name or Nickname} hoped that {Friend(s)} could come. She was really looking forward to a great time!

It seemed to {First Name or Nickname} that her birthday dream was always the same. She would be sitting in the middle of an enormous room, and she would be all dressed up for her party. Beside her would be a key ring with 10 magic keys, and each would have a different color. Around her would be doors, and {First Name or Nickname} knew that the keys would be there to open those matching colored doors.

In each dream, {First Name or Nickname} would find many happy, wonderful surprises behind the locked doors... except for one. There were 11 doors, but only 10 keys. {First Name or Nickname} wondered how she would get into that eleventh room. There wasn't even a knob on the door. Every time she would start to search for the missing key, she would wake up. Oh well. Maybe {Friend(s)} could help her.

In her dream, {First Name or Nickname} liked to start with the blue key that unlocked the blue door. The blue room looked as if it held a billion bouncing balloons. There were balloons of different shapes, colors, and sizes, and {First Name or Nickname} had fun walking through them. There was one balloon that was the biggest, bluest balloon she had ever seen. This was so much fun! {First Name or Nickname} raced on to the next door.

The second door opened up to a white room with lots and lots of birthday cakes. There were tiny cakes, gigantic cakes, and cakes just big enough for {First Name or Nickname} to eat all by herself. Some cakes were huge, but there was one snowy white cake that had 7 huge layers. It was a cake for {First Name or Nickname}. She wanted to show all of these beautiful cakes to {Friend(s)}.

When {First Name or Nickname} opened the cherry red door, she almost fell backwards! What a fun dream! In front of her was a monstrous mountain of melting ice cream. There were cherries, nuts, whipped cream, and syrup running down the sides. {First Name or Nickname} thought it would be so much fun to slide down this kind of mountain. What a delightful, delicious time she would have!

{First Name or Nickname} giggled when she opened the orange door to the clown room. Inside, she found forty funny clowns, and most of them had bright orange hair. There were fat clowns and thin clowns, short clowns and tall clowns, and happy clowns and sad clowns. Some clowns did tricks, while other silly clowns just clowned around. In the orange room, {First Name or Nickname} laughed until she could laugh no more.

The green room had so many presents in it that {First Name or Nickname} had trouble opening the door. She wondered if any of the gifts were from {Friend(s)}. She was hoping that one of those boxes would have something very nice in it that she could play with on her birthday. Maybe it was the gigantic, green gift box! Should she open it? No, she had to hurry to the next door.

{First Name or Nickname} jumped up and down when she opened the glittering gold door and found a golden room full of rides for her birthday party. In the middle of the room was a beautiful gold merry-go-round. {First Name or Nickname} could see the ponies with their golden saddles, a train ride, and even a small ferris wheel surrounding the merry-go-round!

A pink door opened up into a candy room. {First Name or Nickname} was amazed at all of the candy. She found suckers, gumdrops, lollipops, peppermint sticks, hard candies, soft candies, and all kinds of chocolate candies. There was also the biggest, bubbliest bunch of pink bubble gum that she had ever seen. {First Name or Nickname} knew that she would have to share this candy with {Friend(s)}, or she would have a big tummyache.

Behind the brown door were many, many huggable animals. {First Name or Nickname} wanted to hold and squeeze the soft, cuddly brown teddy bears, as well as the cats, dogs, monkeys, and dinosaurs. Some of the other animals, like the giraffe, were taller than {First Name or Nickname}. Others were so small that they would fit in her hand. If she put all of these animals in her room, she might not be able to find her bed. Wow, that would be neat!

When {First Name or Nickname} opened the yellow door, she found a yellow room filled with games fit for a king. {First Name or Nickname} saw Pin the Tail on the Donkey, a fishing pond, balloons for water fights, jacks, musical chairs, Drop the Clothespin in the Bottle, bobbing for yellow apples, hopscotch, and ring toss. {First Name or Nickname} knew exactly which of the games she would play first in the yellow room.

Using the shiny silver key, {First Name or Nickname} opened the silver door and saw colorful streamers decorating every inch of the tenth room. She also found everything else she needed for her birthday party. Here were the plates, cups, napkins, forks, and spoons. For her guests, there were stacks and stacks of silver whistles, silver bells, horns, blowers, birthday hats, and other party favors. She knew that she was ready for her birthday party when she saw the squirt guns!

{First Name or Nickname} found herself in front of the last door that had no key. She leaned against the door to peek through the keyhole, and as she did, the door silently opened. She looked inside. The rainbow-colored room was ready for a birthday party with something from each of the other ten rooms, but {First Name or Nickname} was puzzled. Something was missing! How could a birthday party be fun if she were all alone? She became very sad.

Suddenly, many voices sang out "Surprise!" and "Happy Birthday!" at the same time. {First Name or Nickname} {Last Name} blinked her eyes and immediately stopped daydreaming. She turned around and saw {Friend(s)}. This was her best birthday surprise of all! Now she knew that having family and friends was much more important than all of the presents and decorations, or even the cake. It was so much fun to be {Age} and have a birthday celebration!

Where I celebrated my birthday:
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My favorite gift:
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What I liked most about
this birthday:
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People who were with me to
celebrate my birthday:
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