Cavin's 7th Birthday!

For months and months all Cavin has said he wants for his birthday was to have his cousin John, who he idolizes, come for his birthday. I kept saying over and over yeah, that would be fun, but what do you want instead, thinking that could never happen. Well I mentioned his obsession to my brother and much to my surprise some of his Spring Break coincided with Cavin's birthday and a flight was booked! Cavin was SOOOOO excited! We had an extended celebration for a few days since his cousin was here and his birthday was on Sunday and we don't really do a whole lot besides church on Sunday.

Here is Cavin with his buddy. He is only 7 years older ;)
Saturday we went to Cavin's soccer game and he did great and scored 3 goals and had a fun time. Then after the game we went to Culvers to eat, then we went off to bowling since it was raining so we couldn't go miniature golfing.

Cavin was excited to be there and the bowling alley was remodeled so it looked great.

 Here are the kiddos having fun!

Silly faces!

 

We had a fun time bowling. We went off to Bahama bucks later but I forgot my phone for a picture. Unfortunately on Sunday morning John woke up with the stomach bug so Cavin's actual birthday was kind of a wash for his cousin, but thankfully the bug was short lived and he felt better soon. The rest of us tried to enjoy it without him, but Cavin was sad he couldn't play much.

 He happily waited for his cake to cook....

Then licked the bowl clean.

This how Cavin feels about birthdays!

 We opened presents and he got the things on his list so he was pretty excited.

 He got some minecraft legos. He loves Minecraft and is trying to get into legos since all his cousins are, but he still was way more interested in the marble race and was happy to let his master cousin build the set.

Marble race!

He chose a red velvet cake!

Our happy little seven year old!

Cavin is still a quiet natured boy. He is not the normal rough houser. He doesn't like to wrestle or play tough. He likes to do anything related to soccer, especially play it. He loves minecraft, reading magic tree house books, numbers, watching sports with his father and memorizing statistics (the other day he was talking to Ragnar about a game we went to and he remembered the exact score and most of the statistics related to it even though it was a couple months ago), he loves to do crafts and draw pictures, he loves to play the wii, he gets super sweaty but only from his head so he is always dripping after school. His favorite food is still macaroni and cheese but he wanted my taquitos I make for his birthday dinner. He loves the color green and turtles and beanie boos. Most of all, he adores his brother Deacon. He still has the adorable laugh we all love and a smirk that will make anyone smile. We sure love our boy!