Jason Buscema

Isaac showing off his new do

Today when I came home from work, my two and half year old son, Isaac, was very excited about his new big boy haircut. He came racing outside to greet me and to show off his new do. I’m used to him having somewhat curly longer hair so the haircut was definitely a drastic change for me. It was truly a big boy haircut. I reached out to touch his cool new do and he got a bit of a frown on his face and quickly said, “Daddy, don’t touch my hair!”

It turns out that after his cool new haircut, the barber put some gel in his hair which he just LOVED. He was so proud of his cool new do. He was quite disappointed when mommy gave him a bath and shampoo’d his hair and the gel disappeared.

Is it too much pressure on a 2 year old to bank my entire retirement on his future NFL career? I’d even settle for a sub-par team like the Broncos or the Patriots just as long as it wasn’t the Raiders. I’m sure the San Diego Chargers will be calling on Isaac soon after seeing this photo. I’d rather have to work my entire life then to have a son play football for the Raiders

He is a natural when it comes to sports. I didn’t teach him to tuck the ball to protect it. He does watch football with me though which is evident in the way he tackles other kids. We finally figured that one out. I guess watching football can be a little confusing for young kids as they see grown ups yelling, screaming and trying to destroy the person across from them. Hmmm…

Notice anything strange in this x-ray of my 2 year old son? The little dot at the bottom is not a raisin, grape or any other food substance. It is a watch battery from circa 1988. The battery was in the LEGO drawer mixed in with the massive collection of LEGOs from my childhood. I was always really big on the city, town and early space LEGOSs. I just never got into the castle series or the newer Star Wars/movie stuff. Go with the classic ones. Anyway… Isaac and I were playing LEGOS and we found the battery. Being the responsible parent that I am, I put it aside to throw away but got distracted building the coolest helicopter in the world. Do keep in mind building something awesome out of LEGOs and building something awesome that will be somewhat 2-year-old safe are too different things. Needless to say, I spent some serious time and energy on this copter and it lasted throughout the day! A few hours later at nap time Isaac said “Daddy, I swallowed battery”.  Oops.

This past weekend we took the boys to two different parks on two different days. That’s big time in our household! On Sunday we went to the park up the street from our house and Isaac had free reign of the play structure. I just got my Canon 5D Mark II camera and figured this would be a good time to test out the HD video capabilities the camera possesses. I’ll tell you, it’s not super intuitive like you may expect from Canon.

This video was shot obviously using the Canon 5D Mark II camera and the 70-200 2.8 non IS L series lens. Sorry for the shaky video. I wonder if a IS lens would work in video mode?