|
 |
"My Birthday Surprise"
was created especially for
Takuya Kimura
with love from
your best friend Shizuka
November 9th ， 2004
|
|
Taku-kun Kimura was so excited ! His
"big"day had finally arrived ! He
had reminded everyone in Meguro
about his birthday on November 9th,
for a long time. Taku-kun had not
wanted a single person to forget
this special day. Today he was 8.
|
|
|
 |
For months now, Taku-kun had been
dreaming day and night about his
party. He had asked his friends
again and again, "Do you suppose my
birthday will ever get here?" There
were many names on his invitation
list. Taku-kun hoped Tsuyoshi-kun,
Shingo-kun and Shizuka-chan could
come. He was really looking forward to
a great time!
|
|
It seemed to Taku-kun that his dreams
always started out the same way.
He would be sitting in the middle
of an enormous room all dressed up
for his party. Beside him was a
key ring with 10 magic keys, each a
different color. Around him would
be doors, and Taku-kun knew that the
keys were there to open those
matching, colored doors.
|
|
 |
 |
In each dream, Taku-kun would find many
happy, wonderful surprises behind
the locked doors....except for one.
There were 11 doors, but only 10
keys. Taku-kun wondered how he would
get into that last room. There
wasn't even a knob on the door.
Every time he would start to search
for the missing key, he would wake
up. Oh well! Maybe Tsuyoshi-kun,
Shingo-kun and Shizuka-chan
could help him. |
|
In his dreams, Taku-kun 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 Taku-kun had fun walking through
them. There was on balloon that
had to be the biggest, bluest
balloon he had ever seen. This was
so much fun, Taku-kun 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 and
gigantic cakes and cakes just big
enough for Taku-kun to eat all by
himself. Some cakes were huge, but
there was one snowy white cake
behind the white door that had 7
huge layers. It was a cake for
Taku-kun. He wanted to show all these
beautiful cakes to Tsuyoshi-kun,
Shingo-kun and Shizuka-chan. |
|
When Taku-kun opened the cherry red
door, he almost fell backward! What
a fun dream! In front of him was a
monstrous mountain of melting ice
cream. There were cherries, nuts,
whipped cream and syrup running down
the sides. Taku-kun thought it would be
so much fun to side down this kind
of mountain. What a delightful,
delicious time he would have!
|
|
 |
 |
Taku-kun giggled when he opened the
orange door to the clown room.
Inside he found forty funny clowns,
most of them with bright orange
hair.There were fat clowns and
thin clowns, short clowns and tall
clowns, happy clowns and sad clowns.
Some clowns did tricks while other
silly clowns just clowned around. In
this orange room, Taku-kun laughed until
he could laugh no more.
|
|
The green room had so many presents
that Taku-kun had trouble opening the
door. He wondered if any of the
gifts were from Tsuyoshi-kun,Shingo-kun
and Shizuka-chan.He was hoping that
one of those boxes would have something
very nice he could play with on his
birthday. Maybe it was the
gigantic green gift box! Should he
open it? No, he must hurry to the
next door.
|
|
 |
|
Taku-kun jumped up and down when he
opened the glittering gold door and
found a golden room full of rides
for his birthday party. In the
middle of the room was a beautiful
gold merry-go-round. Surrounding
it, Taku-kun could see the ponies with
their golden saddles, a train ride
and even a small ferris wheel!
|
|
A pink door opened up into a candy
room. Taku-kun was amazed at all the
candy. He 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 he had ever seen. Taku-kun knew
that he would have to share this candy
with Tsuyoshi-kun,Shingo-kun
and Shizuka-chan or he would
have a big tummyache. |
|
 |
 |
Behind the brown door were many,
many huggable animals. Taku-kun 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 Taku-kun.
Other were so small they would fit
in his hand. If he put all these
animals in his room, he might not be
able to find his bed. Wow, that
would be neat! |
|
When Taku-kun opened the yellow door,
he found a yellow room filled with
games fit for a king. Taku-kun 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. Taku-kun knew exactly which
games he would play first in the
yellow room.
|
|
|
 |
Using the shiny silver key, Taku-kun
opened the silver door and saw
colorful streamers decorating every
inch of the tenth room. He also
found everything else he needed for
his birthday party. Here were the
plates, cups, napkins, forks and
spoons. For his guests, there were
stacks and stacks of silver whistles,
silver bells,horns,blowers,
birthday hats and other party favors.
He knew that he was ready for his
birthday party when he saw the squirt
guns! |
|
Taku-kun found himself in front of the
last door that had no key. He leaned
against the door to peek through the
keyhole and, as he did, the door
silently opened. He looked inside.
The rainbow-colored room was ready
for a birthday party with something
from each of the other ten rooms, but
Taku-kun was puzzled. Something was
missing! How could a birthday party
be fun if you were all alone? He
became very sad. |
|
 |
 |
Suddenly many voices sang out
"Surprise!" and "Happy Birthday!" at
the same time. Taku-kun Smith blinked
his eyes and immediately stopped
daydreaming. He turned around and
saw Tsuyoshi-kun,Shingo-kun and
Shizuka-chan. This was
his best birthday surprise of all!
Now he knew that having family and
friends was much more important than
all the presents and decorations or
even the cake. Oh, it was fun to be
8 and have a birthday celebration! |
|
Happy Birthday !
Taku-kun Kimura
Where I celebrated my birthday:
_____________________________________________
My favorite gift:
_____________________________________________
What I liked most about
this birthday:
_____________________________________________
People who were with me to
celebrate my birthday:
_____________________________________________
|
TOPへ
