A Berry Happy Birthday

I had intentions of a real party for Silas, but somehow it didn't plan itself. As the calender slowly inched towards the 16th, still no magical party plans appears. So a few days ago, I asked Silas what kind of birthday cake he'd like to have. He said strawberry. "And a strawberry party to go with it."
So that's what we had, kind of. We just had a few neighbors and friends over, and there were no organized games, or food, other than cake and ice cream. So it was very low key.
But Silas did want to decorate. So we found some red heart shaped balloons and glued crepe paper to them to turn them into strawberries. We made a big sign on paper left over from the movers. We strung red and green and yellow crepe paper around the dining room. And made a garland out of packing peanuts and foil wrapped strawberry candy.
The cake was a yellow layer cake, from a recipe I hadn't tried before where you beat the flour and butter together, a la Rose Levy Berenbaum's Cake Bible. It came out very much like pound cake. It wasn't bad. But not what I was hoping for. I made this frosting to go with it. (And as my mother said, it tinted just fine if you color the milk and flour before you mix in the butter and sugar.) I mixed a portion of the frosting with diced strawberries adn filled the layers with that. Silas added red sugar all over, and I "stenciled" a number four on teh top with yellow sanding sugar.
Silas must have liked it because when I asked him what he thought of his birthday, he said it was exciting 'because of cake and fancy.'
Of course that was before the light sabers had been opened. After that, cake, ice cream, balloons, and subsequent presents were chopped liver.