Obsession

To say Eli 'likes' Grandpa Jim would be like saying Paris Hilton 'likes' attention. The boy is flat-out obsessed. From the moment my dad walked into our house last month, Eli has not let a day go by without uttering the words, "Gappa Jib" at least a dozen times. While Gappa Jib was here, he gave Eli a real golf ball. Not such a great toy at the time because any ball Eli gets his hands on these days becomes a projectile. So we limited it to outside use and tried our hardest to teach Eli how to drop golf balls instead of throwing them. (We are still working on that with some success.) Somehow in the last few weeks the real golf ball got 'lost'. Then last night while Lehr was getting Eli ready for bed, it appeared in the toy box in Eli's bedroom. The way Lehr tells it, Eli immediately started the Gappa Jib chant; apparently he resembled the "Mine. Mine. Mine" bird scene in Nemo. After five minutes of Gappa Jib talk (which turned into "Gappa Jib-ah" towards the end), Lehr grabbed the camera and captured this.