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My Birthday Surprise
was created especially for
Katherine Marie Smith
at
the age of 7
With Love From,
Mommy
and Daddy
May 7, 2004
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Katie Smith
was so excited! Her "big" day had finally arrived! For a long time, she had reminded everyone in San Diego, California
about her birthday on May 7th. Katie had not wanted a single person
to forget this special day. It's so much fun to be 7 and have a birthday celebration!
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For months now, Katie
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. Katie hoped
that Lauren, Anna, and Peter could come. She was really looking forward to a great time!
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It seemed to Katie
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 Katie knew that the keys would be there to open those
matching colored doors.
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In each dream, Katie
would find many happy, wonderful surprises behind the locked doors... except for one. There were 11 doors, but only
10 keys. Katie 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 Lauren, Anna, and Peter could help her.
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In her dream, Katie
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 Katie had fun walking
through them. There was one balloon that was the biggest, bluest balloon she had ever seen. This was so much fun!
Katie raced on to the next door.
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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 Katie
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 Katie. She wanted to show all of these beautiful cakes to Lauren,
Anna, and Peter.
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When Katie 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.
Katie thought it would be so much fun to slide down this kind of mountain. What a delightful, delicious time
she would have!
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Katie 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, Katie
laughed until she could laugh no more.
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The green room had so many presents in
it that Katie had trouble opening the door. She wondered if any of the gifts were from Lauren, Anna, and Peter. 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.
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Katie 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. Katie could see the ponies with
their golden saddles, a train ride, and even a small ferris wheel surrounding the merry-go-round!
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A pink door opened up into a candy room.
Katie 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. Katie knew that she would have to share this candy
with Lauren, Anna, and Peter, or she would have a big tummyache.
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Behind the brown door were many, many huggable
animals. Katie 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 Katie.
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!
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When Katie opened
the yellow door, she found a yellow room filled with games fit for a king. Katie 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. Katie knew exactly which of the games
she would play first in the yellow room.
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Using the shiny silver key, Katie
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!
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Katie 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 Katie was puzzled. Something was missing! How
could a birthday party be fun if she were all alone? She became very sad.
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Suddenly, many voices sang out "Surprise!"
and "Happy Birthday!" at the same time. Katie Smith blinked her eyes and immediately
stopped daydreaming. She turned around and saw Lauren, Anna, and Peter. 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 7 and have a birthday celebration!
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Happy Birthday!
Katie
Smith
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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