Do you serve ice cream with cake?

Do you clap and cheer after the birthday candle is blown out?

I've always done both, but recently went to party where neither happened. I felt a little silly clapping when no one else was, but the birthday boy just turned 13 and I thought it was still appropiate. LOL

By Vicki on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 01:22 pm:

Sometimes we have ice cream with the cake, sometimes not. If it were a big party, than yes, we would have ice cream. Just us at home, usually not.

And yes, we clap after blowing out the candles!

By Enchens on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 01:46 pm:

We usually don't have ice cream with the cake, then again, we just started having birthdays. dsons will be turning 4 and 2 in April. We do clap after candles are blown out.

By Luvn29 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 02:03 pm:

We usually have ice cream, unless we are doing a party at the park, which has been quite often. Then, we usually don't, because our birthdays are in July!

We always clap and cheer after blowing out the candles!

By Jackie on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 02:52 pm:

We always have ice-cream with the cake. We always clap after the birthday child blows out their candles.

By Annie2 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 02:59 pm:

We serve ice cream and clap after the birthday song.

By Jewlz on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 03:19 pm:

my son turned 25 saturday and we had cake ice cream and sang happy bday to him and clapped and yahoooed and the whole works and then everone wished him a lot more happy bdays.

By Bellajoe on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 03:41 pm:

sometimes we have ice cream with cake, sometimes we don't.
I guess it just depends on if i feel like picking up ice cream from the store or not.

We always clap and say "yeayy!" after the candle are blown out.
Well, we say "yeayyy" for the kids. The adults don't usually get the "yeayy" LOL

By Yjja123 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 03:48 pm:

We do not have ice cream with cake but sometimes we have ice cream cake
We always sing and clap--for ALL family members.

By Brandy on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 03:50 pm:

Yes usually to both = )

By Tonya on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 03:57 pm:

We always do both.

By Tink on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 04:06 pm:

Ditto Bellajoe on everything.

By Jjb on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 04:23 pm:

We just have cake. I'm strange and really don't like ice cream with cake. Some years my DS's don't like to be sung to (and if you do sing they cry through it).. but when we sing we always clap.

By Kaye on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 04:27 pm:

No ice cream here, we sing, but no clapping.

By Reds9298 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 04:34 pm:

No ice cream here, we sing, lots of clapping!

By Dawnk777 on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 04:42 pm:

We just sing Happy Birthday. I don't think we have ever clapped, after candles are blown out! I think we usually don't have ice cream. That would take more planning.

By Rayelle on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 08:23 pm:

We do ice cream and clap!

By Kate on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 08:25 pm:

Wow, so many non ice cream people! Does this mean it's acceptable to skip it?? I hate ice cream with cake...we serve it for other people though.

We do clap after singing.

By Cocoabutter on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 08:33 pm:

Okay, call me a kid at heart, but my dad (62) and I (37) share birthday parties every year (our birthdays are 3 days apart, no biggie to me) and we STILL clap and cheer when we blow out the candles (usually just number candles). Ice cream in still served with cake, but now we have a couple of different flavors and get out the chocolate syrup, too.

By Hol on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 08:46 pm:

We do the "whole nine yards", cake, ice cream, candles, singing and clapping!! The kids expect it, and would be dissappointed if we did anything less.

By Hol on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 08:49 pm:

We do the "whole nine yards", cake, ice cream, candles, singing and clapping!! The kids expect it, and would be dissappointed if we did anything less.

By Hol on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - 08:50 pm:

Sorry about the double post! Woops!

By Imamommyx4 on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 10:33 am:

We have cake and ice cream but seems like alot of people will ask for just cake or just ice cream.

Singing, clapping and yahooing are always accompanied.