I told you on Friday, that sweet Tylan has been waiting 6 WHOLE MONTHS, for his turn at a birthday! All 3 of his siblings were born in the summer, AND he had to endure the girls’ two half birthday celebrations at school yet, too.
FINALLY, his turn came!
The rule at our house for the Birthday kiddo, is you don’t have to do ANY of your normal chores, the other kids have to do them. They get to pick the food we eat, and the cake they want for dessert that night. They get 3 gifts, just like at Christmas, that are opened before dinner. Oh my, was he ever on cloud 9!
He received a wooden marble works set, a stomp rocket and a bike from us. {Someone gave us this bike for free. What a blessing!}
From other family members he received $6, Target gift card and new roller blades, which he insisted on wearing to dinner.
Speaking of dinner:
Tylan LOVES Mac & Cheese.
LOVES IT!
Not Mom’s homemade, nope, the boxed stuff. Bleh.
Ok, buddy, good thing its your birthday, cause this is a special treat!
I told him we needed to make his dinner selection a bit more filling, since Great Grandpa Beckler got to come home from the nursing home, and others would be joining us.
So we turned 2 boxes into Mac & Cheese Lasagna, click picture below for recipe. With served this with regular Mac & Cheese on the side. Now that is a high quality meal right there, folks. OH, and a big tossed salad so we had SOMETHING healthy!!!!!! 🙂
He got to pick 2 desserts, one for his school party, and one for home.
For school he picked Dirt & Worm Cake, which I will share the recipe for in Post 2 for today. I loved hearing him whisper to everyone, “Don’t worry, it’s not REAL dirt.”
For home, he picked a childhood favorite of mine. Ice Cream Cake!!!
It’s very simple actually:
Bake an Angel Food Cake, cool then divide in 3rds if its round, 4ths if you do 2 loaf pans like I did. {discarding or consuming the extra layer}
Have your birthday boy or girl select TWO kinds of ice cream, allow them to soften just a bit for easier moldablity. {ice cream combo ideas listed on recipe}
Fill as pictured above, trying to keep cake level. I used over half of both ice creams. Then cover the whole thing in Extra Creamy Cool Whip. Freeze until serving.
Soooo simple, but soooo good! Printable recipe here.
Time to sing and EAT!
Our Florida family even got to sing Happy Birthday with us, via Facetime!
Ty says it was the best day EVER!
~T
4 little Fergusons 
Wow… he is looking so grown up from when I first started following your blog! Very precious. My kids used to LOVE stomp rockets. When we get a new roof, I’m sure we will find loads of them up there. 🙂
Hi. I didnt get the recipe for the lasagna when i clicked on the pic. Can u re post it? Thx 🙂
Thanks for the heads up! I re-linked it. Try again, and please let me know if it still is giving you trouble. 🙂
I must say that sure looks like one Happy Boy and with wonderful taste in desserts !
He looks like he had a FABULOUS birthday! And he deserved it after watching everyone else have their birthdays! I think that a birthday with loads of macaroni and two different desserts AND wearing roller blades to dinner sounds like the perfect day!
Oh, and Pax looks so secure wearing that pink bib 🙂
🙂 Thank ya, Ma’m! Oh yes, you have to be VERY secure to pull of such a fabbo look. That, or have 3 kids ahead of you, 2 of them girls. Either way….
Haha! I have already thought of the future of our next child. If it’s a boy, he’s going to be stuck wearing some pink cloth diapers and also wearing some pink bibs!