Twilight Sparkle had always wanted to go to the Summer Sun Celebration to see Princess Celestia raise the sun. When she was a little foal, she had heard stories from older fillies and colts about how great it was, how it filled their hearts with warmth to see their princess bring the bright ball of light and heat into the sky.

As the day approached that she would finally be able to see it happen in her home city of Canterlot, Twilight became increasingly excited about it. Her parents had bought her a calendar, and she crossed off the days as they passed. As time went on, she felt that the days moved by too slowly, and she split each day into morning and night so she could cross off smaller periods of time.

Twilight had just awoken and she glanced at her calendar. The month until this day was a mess of black lines sectioning parts of each day and red crosses as each carefully documented piece of time passed. This was definitely going to be the best day ever!

She bounded out of her room, full to bursting with the anticipation of what she'd see at the end of this day and night. Twilight poured herself a glass of water and a bowl of cereal. Everypony needed a nutritious breakfast to begin their best day ever.

When breakfast was done with, she bounded into her parents' room. They were still sleeping, their lumpy forms lying peacefully beneath blankets. Well, the time for sleeping was over.

"Wake up, wake up!" she called out, bouncing in continued excitement. "It's morning, it's morning! Time to get up and greet the day, because the next time the sun rises, we will see Celestia raise it with our own eyes!"

Her parents moved slightly, her mother peeking from beneath the blanket at her daughter. Her father just groaned.

"Twilight Sparkle, dear. What is the time?"

"I'm not sure, Mother, but the sun is up, and so we should be too. This day is going to be great!"

Her father didn't move to look at her, so when he spoke, his voice was muffled. "Go bother your brother, okay sweetheart?"

"Yes sir!" Twilight mock-saluted the figure on the bed and bounded back out of the room.

The door to Shining Armor's room was closed, but Twilight went right in anyway. They were best friends, after all, and Shining Armor was always happy to see his sister.

She didn't step softly into the room, she was too full of energy to do things delicately, so by the time Twilight reached the side of her brother's bed, he was already awake.

"Twily?"

"It's morning, big brother. It's morning! We'll go to the Summer Sun Celebration tonight and the princess will raise the sun and we'll be watching!"

"Yeah, yeah. It's a lot to be excited about, Twily." Shining Armor slowly rolled himself out of bed, sleep in his eyes. Twilight began bobbing up and down, then hopping. She was on the verge of another bouncing session when Shining Armor put his hoof on her shoulder.

"You've gotta stay calm, little sis. Don't wanna go expending all that energy before we reach the celebration."

Twilight held herself still, a grin plastered on her face. "Are you excited too, Shining?"

"Yeah, Twily. It'll be great to share this with you."

I watched the episodes the Cutie Mark Chronicles and A Canterlot Wedding quite a few times before embarking on this fic, to get a sense of filly Twilight Sparkle. I couldn't remember if she'd ever referred to her parents in any other episode, and so didn't know whether she calls them Mom and Dad or Mother and Father, so I'm gonna go with the more formal way. If you know of how she refers to her parents, be sure to tell me! :)