Today, Samuel (my 3 yr. old) was pretending to drink out of an empty glass. He was fake gulping loudly, so I asked him what he was pretending to drink. He responded, “I’m not pretending, Dad. I just like to drink air.”

What more can you say…

I was tucking Samuel (my 3 yr. old) into bed last night and he turns to me and says with great conviction and gruff:

“Daddy, I can fight any animal… as long as it’s a baby animal”

Today Samuel Delony turns 3! Happy Birthday Samuel!

He’s had the number 3 on his belly for the past few days and at church yesterday he was flashing people like it was Mardi Gras.

Happy Birthday Buddy.

Samuel (2yrs old) has had a problem lately with emotional outbursts followed up with incoherent whining. Fed up with this, I decided that what he needed was perspective. So we decided to watch the following clip from Anchorman.

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His reaction? “That man is crying and he said burrito.” Well put, son.

So I asked him if he wants to be like the crying burrito man. He said, “Nooooo.”

And it’s actually begun to work. This afternoon he got mad for some reason and entered his own “glass case of emotion.” I walked over and told him he looked like Ron Burgundy. Then he stopped.

Coincidence? I think not.

So remember parents, Anchorman can work for you too.

Note: the boy posed for the above picture. No toddlers were harmed in the making of this blog post.