Grandma's hats and mittens are practical...and fun!

When Grandma Susan was visiting a few weeks ago she spent a lot of time knitting to make sure Will had several excellently fashionable hat and mitten options for the approaching Michigan winter. We tried several times to get pictures of him wearing full ensembles but it doesn't work too well since as soon as you put the hat on his head he immediately goes to work trying to take it off (as you can see in the first picture below).

This gray/red hat has matching mittens, and match his snow suit perfectly. So there will definitely be more pictures in which he's wearing this hat, but hopefully making a nicer face.

Here's the other hat/mitten set. This one is long and looks very cool and colorful, but we discovered that we need to roll it up or it ends up sagging down over his eyes like this.

Grandma discovered a trick to get him to keep his mittens on for a little while and have some fun. We would hold the mittens open for him, he would slide his little hands in, then Grandma would sing "pattycake, pattycake, Will has mittens!" and clap our hands. Will does some clapping for a little while, but before too long he shakes them off, as you can see in the video above.