![A sixth birthday theme: rained-out pool party](http://thekriegers.org/wp-content/uploads/maryparty-5-300x200.jpg)
A few months before Mary’s birthday, she started planning her party. I generally don’t start making actual plans for her birthday until after Thomas’s birthday, but this year I made an exception. Mary is the youngest in her class, and she has been positively hungry to turn six for a long time. (She’s actually the third youngest.