Anything Is a Good Hat

Like her dad, Julia likes a good hat, especially indoors. We agree that nothing beats a stocking cap worn all evening long. It is to your scalp what hot cocoa is to your stomach. Last night, as I was changing my socks, she grabbed a clean one and laid it over her head. She's done this dozens of times, but I still laughed and said, "Nice sock hat!" While she inspected the look in the mirror, I put the other one on my own head. She turned around, smile brightening at seeing me following her lead, and said, "Otha. Hat. Bofe!" She hadn't made that leap from "other" to "both" before, to my knowledge.

Linguistic capacities aside, what's really impressive to me is the range of things which she has worn like a hat, which includes:

• stocking caps (mine and hers)
• baseball hats (mine)
• handkerchiefs
• bibs
• napkins
• socks (hers and mine)
• mittens (hers, mine, and her mom's)
• Christmas wrapping paper
• Valentine's Day wrapping paper
• coloring books
• unfolded maps
• Tupperware bowls
• her own pants
• diapers (clean)
• towels (bath and hand)
• washcloths (dry and wet)
• plastic buckets
• the cat (with little luck)