I had Jacob in Edmonton for a week and we were busy. Everyday we played hockey. My nephew cut down a hockey stick for him so it was a better size for him to whack the ball than those little wussy sticks he had. I had to use those. We went over to the neighbors one night and Trudy had this black basket full of cat toys for her kittens. Well Jacob loved this basket. He immediately chucked the cats toys and started calling it his hockey helmet, and was wearing it on his head. We kinda chuckled and when we went to leave he wouldn’t part with the basket, so Trudy told him he could take it home. He insisted on sleeping with it. Well the next morning when I took him out on the driveway to hit balls, he wouldn’t play hockey without his helmet. So I had to get the basket and he wore it on his head. He slept with it, bathed with it, and held it while he watched T.V. He also wouldn’t let anyone try it on. No one! I remembered that I had a blue LA baseball helmut of Rob's in the basement, so I got it out, cleaned it up and gave it to Jacob a couple of days later. He loved it. Now he relinquished the black goalies helmet for me to wear and he put on the blue one. We play hockey on my driveway, so I really did not want to wear his helmut but he insisted. Now is that passion or what?? So now the neighbors have proof that I am a basket case. I also had to dump the recycle blue box so he could shoot the puck into the net. He shoots he scores. love Jacob's baba.
