Hats - from Grandpa Ted

Last weekend I went to a bar mitzvah for the son of a friend. At the party afterward, all the young people wore hats that were distributed as party favors. I was struck with the memory of Lev and how he looked in the hats he loved to wear. He was just the right size to wear his dad's hats, and also liked to wear a dark suit or sports coat on occasion, making him look older. The hats he wore weren't party favors or baseball caps, at least not the ones I remembered. They were traditional men's dress hats. He was very expressive, and I could see him with a career or hobby as a stand-up comedian. Then he would change to athletic garb and look like a boy again.

In this picture, we were out to dinner at a fancy restaurant and Lev is wearing a jacket he got for Halloween the year before. He enjoyed dressing up, and that night at dinner he was practicing moving his eyebrows independently up and down. You can tell in the photo that one is up and the other is down. It looked quite impressive. Jaal can wiggle his ears, like Ted, but Lev is the only one who had such eyebrow control.