Brain Freeze

My son's favorite snack is frozen yogurt, you know the tubes of yogurt. We put them in the freezer and the kids love them, not to mention they are a lot less messy that way.

If you knew my son you would see he is your typical 2 year old boy, wild and rambunctious. He has a few nicknames i.e. Meathead, Bubba and Bubby (after the Steelers QB). His middle name is Happy which is the name he goes by. Yes I too am an idiot and named him after a movie character. Happy Gilmore is by far my favorite movie character of all time and I still to this day have a man crush on Adam Sandler no matter how bad his movies have gotten.

If you remember anything about Happy Gilmore and the way the movie began plotting out Happy's life to the present tense. You would remember young Happy as a spazz who overreacted to everything, but was always quick to apologize and was all heart to the core. Well, the name for my son has really stuck and it is amazing how much he is like the movie character they showed in his younger days.

This gives you some background to my son's relationship with himself and his snacks. He attacks the frozen yogurt as if someone was standing behind him ready to take it. As we all learn as we get older, eating extremely cold items very quickly is not good for the teeth or your head. No matter how many times it happens Happy always gives himself brain freeze by taking huge bites of yogurt, but his remedy to cure it is the most hilarious and scary part.

When the brain freeze sets in Happy's eyes get squinty and then he starts to shake his head and off like a dart he runs directly into the closest wall he can find. This is at full speed most of the time, thankfully he hasn't put his head down yet and cracked it open, but once he bounces back up from the collision he gives his head another shake, looks back to his yogurt and takes a smaller bite.

I guess he is slowly learning, but his method of remembering to not do it again, like himself is a little rough.

That's my son, I couldn't be more proud.