Caleb, our 4-year old, loves mac & cheese but he refuses to eat it if I’m not around.

He began eating mac & cheese at Chick-fil-A and I’d take a few seconds to blow his piping hot food to cool it down for him.

But to make food and eating interesting, I’d act as if I was drawing the air from my tummy, sound a few noises, and make it a big deal before I’d let rip a big blow and cool it down. 

Later on when I wasn’t around and my wife blew normally on the hot mac & cheese, he told her, “You don’t know how to cool it down. Only dad does!”

He was so serious that he said he wants mac & cheese only if I’m around to blow it, because obviously daddy knows best!

Even though both of us cooled the mac & cheese in the same amount of time, how it was done mattered so much to Caleb that he’d only trust it if it was done my way.