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Dress-Up Afternoon with the Baby

·Grand Rapids, Michigan·#winter#bay area#portraits#at-home#kids
A baby wearing a straw hat and pink dress, with visible drool, sits in a turquoise baby seat on a carpeted floor.

Never made it out of the house today, which is fine — March in Grand Rapids doesn't exactly invite you outside. Instead the baby got a fashion show in the bedroom, propped up in the Bumbo seat against the dresser.

First outfit: a pink flowered dress with a straw sun hat that swallowed half the little face. Big grin under it anyway, plus a fair amount of drool. Then the striped swimsuit with the white floppy hat, chin strap and all, and the matching flower sunglasses, which stayed on longer than I expected. A swimsuit in Michigan in March is pure optimism.

The last change was the navy velvet sailor outfit, hat included, on the blue couch. The baby seemed to think the whole business was funny, right up until it wasn't.

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