(Trying to cheer Reece up with a little joke) “Now, Reece. I have to go to grown-up school and little guys like you aren’t allowed. They only allow boring adults like me in those places.”

(Excitable tone, trying to “hype” Reece up for his first day) “You ready to charge fourth, captain, and make some new friends at your new school? They’re all waiting for you, and I hear that your partner in crime from tumbling class has the same teacher as you!”

(Warm fatherly tone, feeling the weight of the world fall off his shoulders as the only thing that mattered in that moment was his son) “So, how was it today?”