Here he is contemplating - but not actually wearing - the matching hat, complete with little reindeer horns.
He's not wearing the hat because he doesn't particularly like wearing hats and I didn't feel like torturing him any more than absolutely necessary, and also because his head is just too big.
And finally, here's a detail of the matching socks:
Speaking of socks, we recently discovered that taking Elias's socks off while he's sitting up makes him giggle:
Anyway, it's funny because I'm not a huge fan of any of these outfits (three in total, the grand finale arriving via this blog tomorrow...my Christmas gift to you, if you will :)). I think it's the velour that kills it for me. But when I put them on Elias, I think he's just adorable in them! It's a mom thing, isn't it?
That reminds me that when I did my mid-year baby gear review a couple of weeks ago, I failed to mention anything about clothing. The first few months I honestly could have cared less what I put him in, which was odd because I thought dressing a baby would be one of the things I most enjoyed about the latest addition to our family. But lately I find that I'm getting a little pickier about what I put him in. For basics, I like Carter's well enough. Their clothes seem to fit pretty well and hold up nicely. I bought a few things at an Osh Kosh B'Gosh outlet at the 3 month mark and within a couple of weeks, the stitching around the snaps was starting to fray. Old Navy makes some cute stuff but I've had mixed results as far as quality; a onesie I bought early on would get kind of baggy shortly after I put Elias in it. But more recently I bought a few things in the 6 to 12 month range and they've been holding up just fine. I like the odd owl/reindeer/robot creature featured on a number of their baby and toddler clothes at the moment. Cute but not overly cutesy. A friend turned me on to Speesees. They're a bit pricey but the kid's gotta have a few hip outfits, right? And I'm hoping the stuff I've been gifted and bought in the 6 to 12 month range he won't grow out of quite as quickly as the first six months of his life. In general, the brands I don't like are the pricier ones sold at discount stores, like Vitamins Baby. They make some cute stuff, I guess, but they have such an odd fit. I've noticed a lot of baby clothes seem to be made to fit short, squat babies. Elias has many a onesie that's too short but that could accommodate a few more inches in the waist.
One more thing. I recently heard someone say that there's a short window of time in which you can dress your baby in animal ears. I'm not sure what sort of window she had in mind, but I beg to differ. I think animal ears are fair game well into the toddler years.
4 comments:
My guess is that she meant because toddlers absolutely will not wear any hat ever! I wish we would have put Ivan in way more ear-hats. The only hat we've been able to put on him since he was about 9 or 10 months, was that one you gave us with the industrial velcro that he couldn't rip off :)
That might have been it! And if I remember correctly, the hat with the industrial velcro didn't even have ears, did it?! But it did have a shark fin and tail, right? I guess that's pretty good :)
Not sure about boys, but my girls are 11 and 10 and they still wear "ears." I have a pair of Eeyore and a pair of Tigger ears on my desk that I wear here at work for comic relief (thanks to Amanda Gore.) So, I say psssttttt to a limit on wearing ears!!
OMG, I love the mental picture of you, at your desk, wearing a pair of Tigger ears! :)
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