Happy Birthday, Cache!

I can’t believe it was 15 years ago that Cache was born! Where has the time gone? I’m pretty sure it was just yesterday. . . .but I guess that time flies when you are having fun!! And what fun it has been. Cache is a great kid. So quirky. So smart. So diligent. So funny. So good. And because he is typically a very quiet kid anywhere else than at home, I decided to post a side of him most of you will never see.

♦One morning after having fondue the night before, I found “Clowns are not normal.” carved into the leftover hardened chocolate.

♦Cache thinks there should be a new branch of study. . . Ichthyologytheology: the study of the religion of fish.

♦One morning I woke up to this photo enlarged full size on my desktop:

♦A couple of years ago, Cache decided it would be cool to only wear BYU T-shirts. So for school that was all he bought. Last year he was going to buy 5 Fully Invested shirts and put the days of the week on each one to wear for the football season, but at the last minute chose all different shirts. (still BYU) I don’t think anyone at his school questions his allegiance to BYU.

♦He hates the word syrup. He thinks lin is a much more fitting word. He refuses to ask for the syrup at the breakfast table and will not pass it when asked for as syrup.

♦On Saturday we took the boys to their favorite store of all time: Smith & Edwards Surplus Store. It was a reward for them each reading the Book of Mormon. (That was their choice of reward!! but that’s a whole other story.) They had a dollar amount they could spend so they each got a cart and filled it up with things they wanted and then at the end they narrowed it down to meet the dollar amount. So what do you think was the very first thing Cache put in his cart? A 20 quart popcorn bowl. Along the way he also picked up a length of rope, a chemical suit, chemical gloves, a Russian hat (which he wore all over the store; as you can see in the picture), a package of instant towels, 20 glow sticks, a padded seat for his bike. . . Just funny, quirky stuff.

♦He is very on top of daily celebrations. We are often asked to celebrate things like National Check Your Batteries Day, Navajo Code Talkers Month, Respect for Chickens Day, National Hairball Awareness Day. He’s got very boring non celebrating parents. Poor thing.

♦I mentioned Velspar in this post. But it deserves more mentioning. Cache and his friends were too late to actually fill out an application for Velspar to run for a student body officer. But, they decided, Velspar (which I’m told is really a house plant) could still campaign. So he and his buddies made posters and fliers and hung them all over the school. Some of them even made and wore T-shirts advertising Velspar. Unfortunately, Velspar was discovered by the principal, who went to the teacher in charge of the elections. This teacher, who I guess figured out who would do something like that, just laughed. But Mr. Principal removed all of the posters and fliers. Velspar, however garnered a good handful of votes!

So, to give back all good times he gives us, I’ve typed up clues for him as to where he’ll find his birthday presents (thanks for the idea, Dave). Here is a sampling: (I know the font is hard to read, but Cache is into fonts too so I chose one he'd like; but you can click to enlarge for easier reading)

I'm a lucky mom to have such awesome built in entertainment! I hope he has a great birthday!

PS. . . Cache bought that Russian hat and keeps telling us all how cool it is and how jealous we should be!

Another PS. . . Tessie has croup :( . But we've caught it in the early stage so hopefully it ends with just croup and not the other things croup sometimes brings.