A Christmas Hat

Alec is becoming more and more sly all the time, one consequence of which is that he is harder to fool.

I slipped this one by him though - some kids on the train had santa hats on and, when Alec demanded one, I dug into his knapsack and dug out his "back-up" hat which happens to be a plain red toque.

"Here's your Christmas hat", I said (while sucking in my breath in anticipation of the ultimate rejection I expected to follow).

As you can see, he accepted it, with pride.

That's 1 for Mom, 4, 953 for Alec (not that I'm keeping score...).