Two answers

We found a solution to the blanket over the face problem. Lora suggested giving Grady a holey blanket at naptime, and it seems to have done the trick. G's favorite is one that Lisa's mom made for him. It's blue and white and has all kinds of thrilling little places for him to stick his fingers. I'm half tempted to buy some yarn and go begging at her door for more. He still likes to pull it over his head, but only sometimes--he's really much more into the finger-holes.

We also found a solution to Evan's "pants hanging off the ass" problem. I'd still been shopping in the toddler section, where Ev would wear 5T in shirts and 4T in pants. Pants in 4T were the right length but still huge in the waist, even with elastic. So we moved across the way to the boys section and found the magical 4 Slim. I swear I saw a light emanating from the jeans display. I had forgotten the old "slim, regular, husky" sizes from when my brothers were small. Slims are just right for Evan--a perfect fit. I guess there he'd probably wear a size 4 shirt too, but I haven't had a chance to look.

So there's two problems solved. My life makes sense again.