The Pink Hat

In the spirit of Easter, I thought I’d share this with you. A while ago, I bought Ruby a cute little Easter hat I found in the Target dollar spot. Knowing my girl and how much she loves clothes, I knew she’d love this new addition to her wardrobe. And she does, but a certain little boy seems to love it more. Bennett can be found wearing this hat at any given moment during the day. He finds it, probably drawn in by its brightness, casually places it on his head, and carries on with his important playing duties. This has been going on for weeks. I always ask each Elise if she has put it on him, but it’s always Bennett who does this all by himself. I can’t blame him. It’s a pretty cool hat, and it fits him perfectly. It always makes me laugh when I see him wearing it unabashedly as he wanders out of the playroom. I’m going to let him continue to enjoy it since it obviously makes him happy. Here are some moments with the famous “at”.

I’ve pulled out my more masculine hats to play with, which worked temporarily, but they just don’t catch the eye like the pink hat.

Alex isn’t completely innocent here. He has been seen wearing it a time or two, and just today he was happily sporting Ruby’s purple sunglasses.

(Then everyone had to have a pair of glasses to play with.)

But it’s Bennett who is wearing it 95% of the time. Of course this means nothing about the boyishness of either of my little men. After all, Bennett is usually playing with cars and trucks while donning the hat. But I think I’ll take the advice from my sister when she wrote about a similar circumstance in her home, and get some boy-type dress-ups, before they start demanding to wear Ruby’s tutus.

And don’t worry, Ruby does get to wear her hat on occasion. My girl does appreciate a good fashion accessory.