Fresh today · Thursday, 16 July

New Wishes

A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.

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Happy 5th birthday. May the year ahead bring lots of laughs, the right amount of bumps, and small daily good things.

Birthday wishes for the boy whose presence in our lives has been the best thing about the last five years.

Happy 5th birthday, my boy. The years ahead will be full of small impossible moments.

Birthday love for the little one whose growth has been the highlight of every year so far.

Happy 5th birthday. May the next year be the soft one — and may you handle the first year of school like the brave kid we know you are.

Birthday wishes. The cake is real. The candles are five. The pride from us is enormous.

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Happy 5th birthday, my boy. The world is wide. May your corner of it always stay warm.

Birthday love. The fifth year is closed. The sixth is opening. Off you go.

Happy 5th birthday. May the next year bring you new words, new friends, and brave new first days.

Birthday wishes for the kid who has, by his own brave effort, become a confident little person.

Happy 5th birthday, my boy. May the next year teach you something useful and ask of you only what you can give.

Birthday love. The cap is tiny. The chapter is enormous. The future is wide open.

Happy 5th birthday. The years go too fast. We're trying to hold onto each one a little longer.

Birthday wishes for the little one whose presence in our lives has been the best gift of the last five years.

Happy 5th birthday, my boy. May the next year hand you the kind of small good news a 5-year-old can understand. (More cake. Probably.)

Birthday love. The years pile up. The pride keeps deepening.

Happy 5th birthday. May the day be loud with the friends and family who love you.

Birthday wishes. May the cake be tall, the candles be five, and the people around you be the right ones.

Happy 5th birthday, my boy. Same vow as every year so far: we love you. We're proud of you. The bond is permanent.

Birthday love. The 5-year-old version of you is, frankly, the funniest, sweetest, most stubborn version yet. We wouldn't trade a single decibel.

Get well soon, brave kid. The surgery is behind you. The body is doing the slow repair work now.

Sending healing thoughts to a little one. May each day after the surgery feel a tiny bit better than the one before.

Get well soon, sweetheart. The doctor did the hard part. Your job is to rest and let the body fix itself.

Wishing you a smooth recovery, little one. The toys will be there when you're ready. The cartoons are on full duty until then.

Get well soon, brave little one. The hospital was scary. The home is safer. The healing is the work.