Fresh today · Sunday, 5 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 birthday — may your sixth year be full of climbed trees and skinned, honorable knees.

Six is the age of running fast and falling slow. Wishing you both, in moderation.

To a girl who is six: may your imagination always outpace your bedtime.

Happy 6th — the year you'll insist you're not little anymore, and almost convince us.

Six already. The crayons get sharper, the questions get harder, the hugs stay the same.

Wishing you a year of new friends, lost teeth, and stories told with great seriousness.

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At six you're a small philosopher with sparkly shoes. Happy birthday, thinker.

Happy birthday, six-year-old — may your kindness be as loud as your laugh.

Six is the doorway between baby and big kid. May you take it at a run.

Wishing you a year of mud, music, and very strong opinions about pancakes.

To our birthday girl: may you read your first long book and love it dearly.

Six candles for six wonders. Blow them out and keep one wish for a rainy Tuesday.

Happy 6th — may school be kind, recess be wild, and snacks be plentiful.

At six, dreams get specific. Wishing you exactly the rocket boots you've requested.

Six years of being you, and the world has only just started catching up.

Happy birthday — may this year hold more cartwheels than sit-downs.

To a six-year-old with a great big heart and a slightly bigger giggle: happy day.

Wishing you a year of brave first tries and softer second chances.

Six is for forts, for friends, for figuring out that you can do hard things.

Happy 6th, brave girl — may your courage match the height of your jumps.

May your sixth year be patterned in stickers and lined in laughter.

To a girl who is six and going on extraordinary: happy birthday, dreamer.

Six candles glow for a girl who is curious, kind, and just a little bossy. We love it.

Happy birthday — may you draw, dance, dare, and dawdle in all the best places.

At six, you are the heroine of every game. Long may you reign.