Max's Birthday

[The scene starts at the living room. A cake is on the top of the table. Louise is leaving for the day]

Ruby: Bye, Louise. Thank you for coming to Max's party.

Louise: You're welcome, Ruby. It was fun. Happy birthday, Max.

[Max is busy watching the chicks as Louise leaves the house]

Ruby: Bye bye, see you tomorrow at Bunny Scouts. (closes the door) (sighs) This is a great birthday party, Max. You've got some wonderful presents.

[Then sees a wrapping paper with ice-cream]

Ruby: Max, I have an idea. I'm going to make everyone's beautiful thank you notes from all this pretty wrapping paper. You can sign your name with stickers.

[Max gets a hoop and a chick flips through it]

Ruby: Lets see. Uncle Frank makes a thank you note for these pajamas. And another Huffington's one for the steam train, and... (sees a present that Max didn't open) Max! There's a present you forgot to open.

[Max watches in surprise]

Ruby: (reading) ''Happy birthday, Max. From Aunt Claire and Uncle Nate.'' (shakes the gift) Hmmm, I wonder what it is. Open it. (Max opens the present tearing off the paper) Don't rip the paper. We can use it for our thank you card.

[Max opens the box]

Ruby: Opening presents so exciting. What is it?

[Well, we know what it is, a lobster that gets too close to Max]

Max: No!

Ruby: A wind-up lobster. Say "hello", Max.

Max: (pushes the lobster away) No! (runs away to the kitchen)

Ruby: (giggles) Look, the lobster likes to clean up.

[Then the lobster flips off the wall]

Ruby: It's so funny.

[Max is seen with a bowl of water and decides to see if the chicks can flip over it. A chick flips but splashes on the water making Max surprised. A lobster goes to the kitchen]

Ruby: This is a wonderful lobster. It can do so many things.

[The lobster then comes to Max feeling annoyed that the chicks are on the water and bumps into the bowl spilling the water and freeing the chicks]

Max: No!

Ruby: It plays tag too. (the lobster climbs on a wall and flips off it making Ruby laugh)

Max: No!

[Max goes outside with the lobster chasing him. Max was finally thrilled that the lobster was in the yard]

Ruby: I don't think it's an outside toy, Max.

[Ruby goes outside to get it back. Max puts the wind up chicks in his pocket then goes under the table]

Ruby: (humming) I left your presents in the kitchen, Max.

[The lobster walks around but bumps into the wall]

Ruby: Lets make Aunt Claire and Uncle Nate a thank you card with extra sparkles on it. We'll need scissors and paper and glue. This will look great with sparkles.

[As Max gets the cake, the lobster takes it from him]

Ruby: The lobster wants to share your birthday cake, Max.

Max: No!

[Max watches as the lobster carries the cake, but then it flips around ruining it. Then the lobster continually chases Max all the way upstairs]

Ruby: Aunt Claire and Uncle Nate will be so happy to get this thank you card back just to say thank you for the thank you card. We'll say thank you and they'll say thank you and then we'll say thank you, until we run out of sparkles. Hmmm, should I use green sparkles or gold sparkles. I know. (pours both sparkles in the card)

[Upstairs Max was still trying to hide from the lobster. He ends up chasing him from Ruby's room to Max's room. Max then feels scared and goes back downstairs]

Max: No.

[Back downstairs, Ruby puts a stamp and the thank you card is finally finished]

Ruby: Beautiful. Max! I finished the thank you card to Aunt Claire and Uncle Nate! Do you want to sign it with a gold star sticker or a bluebird of happiness sticker?

[Then sees Max still chased by a lobster]

Ruby: Max, don't you want to play with your new toy?

Max: No.

Ruby: OK, I'll put it away.

[The lobster ends up making a big noise far away]

Max: Whoa!

Ruby: (gasps) Uh oh! Watch out! Slow down. (giggles) You've got to lie down soon, Max. (the lobster bumps into the heater and falls over] Not yet. (the lobster gets back up and chases her making her laugh)

[Max gets to the living room and the lobster was going to get Max, making him bump into the box behind him]

Ruby: (gasps) Look out behind you!

[The box tips over as Max falls flat on his back]

Max: No!

[Then Max smiles even though he was just tickling his belly and just a toy instead of a real one]

Ruby: I'll help you, Max. I'm going to put you away so you don't scare Max anymore.

[As Ruby puts it away, Max stops her]

Max: No! (takes it from her) Again!

Ruby: Oh, Max. (laughs)

[Max winds up the lobster again as the story comes to an end]