Fresh today Β· Sunday, 5 July

New Wishes

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

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Four is the age of grand plans and small pockets. May yours be deep enough.

Happy 4th β€” the year of riddles, songs, and a thousand earnest questions.

To a girl of four: may your imagination always have somewhere new to go.

Four years of being you, and the family still hasn't caught its breath. Happy birthday.

Wishing you a year of bike-attempts, backyard kingdoms, and unrepentant glitter.

Happy birthday β€” may you make new friends without losing the old, stuffed ones.

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At four, your sense of fairness is fierce. Hold onto it; the world will need it.

Four candles glowing for a girl whose laugh is the family's favorite household sound.

Happy 4th β€” may your dreams be wild and your bedtimes be only mildly negotiated.

To our four-year-old: you are smarter than yesterday and somehow even funnier.

Four is the year of pretending β€” you'll be a doctor, a dragon, a pancake. All worthy.

Happy birthday β€” may your fourth year be loud where it should be and soft where it shouldn't.

At four, you discover that you can do hard things. May you keep finding more.

Four years of small triumphs and even smaller socks. Happy birthday, darling.

Wishing you a year of muddy boots, mended hearts, and an excellent collection of rocks.

Happy 4th β€” may your favorite people be near you on every day that matters.

Four is the doorway to school, to friends, to whole new weathers. Walk through proudly.

To a girl of four: may you be cherished, challenged, and never quite tamed.

Happy birthday β€” may your year be a long string of small, perfect afternoons.

At four, you are already a person with a story. Wishing you many more chapters.

Four candles, four years, four hundred reasons we are lucky. Happy birthday.

Happy 4th β€” may you outgrow your shoes weekly and your courage daily.

To our four-year-old: keep asking, keep dancing, keep refusing the wrong vegetables.

Four years ago you arrived; the family has been catching up ever since.

Happy birthday β€” may you climb high, fall soft, and laugh first when you do.