It’s your birthday! W00t! So because I love you ginormous, I want to share with you and everybody, three of what I consider (some of) your best traits:

You are extremely funny. Nobody can touch your Sean Connery impression, the SNL version or the one where he is singing how he left his heart in San Francisco. Plus, you just make up stuff that’s real funny.

You are incredibly sweet. I have never know a father that has spent as many nights as you have trying to calm their crying baby (while the mama slept like a log) or spent a night on the floor with their wife’s sick dog. And it’s not a strain for you, it just comes natural.

And your best trait, as it applies to me, would be an encourager who has pushed me (and sometimes dragged if it was necessary) through college, pregnancy, labor, and LOTS of not pleasant stuff. I have given you lots of experience on this one and you have mastered the art of encouragement in my book. You calm me with your gentle and loving spirit.

You are an excellent son, brother, husband, uncle, and now father (might I add friend) making great strides at figuring it all out AND always providing a laugh for others along the way.

I hope you have a wonderful day and it begins one of the best years of your life.