baby boy turns 6

How did I blink and 6 years went by???  Well, without my consent, Ian turned 6 on the 3rd of January.  I honestly feel for the kiddo, having a birthday so close to Christmas and New Years, it either gets over shadowed by the previous holidays  or just plain forgotten.  This year, it landed on a Monday and it just so happened it was the first day back to school after Christmas break.  Not being able to get my act together, all I was able to do was pre-packaged rice crispy treats.  I would have enjoyed making cupcakes, but his school has a serious, crazy policy on treats being store bought, because of the food allergies.
They did sing "Happy Birthday" to him and the entire class made a "Birthday Wish" book for him. It was a great(sneaky) way to get the children to work on their writing.  It will make a great keepsake for him.  He also got a card with candy from his teacher. 
His daddy took off a couple hours early from work to surprise him with his birthday gift. A new bike!!!  It was actually really brilliant, he had the bike in the car and had me keep the kids away from the garage (normally they hear it pop open and they run to see daddy) well, he came in, and started to get after Ian for leaving his (old) bike in the middle of the garage and he needed to move it ASAP so he could park his car.  Poor kid, was shocked that 1, he was being yelled at on his birthday and 2 he wasn't even on his bike.  He hesitated, but I played along and said, "you better go check".  He reluctantly opened the door, and SURPRISE!!!  His new bike.  Ian actually was stunned for a good minute, before he yelled "A NEW BIKE"
After all that, we treated him to going to CiCi's for pizza, that was great since kids eat for 99cents on Mondays, and I had a coupon for buy one get one free adult buffet. (love a great bargain). After dinner, we were too stuffed to eat a cake (which i'll get to later) so we had him open his presents and sang happy birthday to some vanilla pudding.

obligatory birthday picture

His new bike

It wouldn't be a birthday if there wasn't a gift for everyone from Grammy and Pop

first present-from Ziggy

present from Nana-a razor scooter

A new lego set from Grammy and Pop

Happy birthday to you...

Make and wish and blow out the candles

The only complaint Ian had was that there were too many "soft presents" aka clothes, but as I told him, when you get older, you need more and more clothes.