It is a damn good thing that Julien didn't pat him on the head because while Cole doesn't understand a lot of things, he does understand the concept of 'being patronized at'. He can't help but frown a little at being called adorable (that's new) but then they've changed the subject back to hats and honestly, Cole would rather talk about hats than anything else. It's one of the few human idiosyncrasies he still has: he likes a good hat.

"Something large," he definitively states, "but simple. And with a big brim!"

So something mostly like his current hat whether Cole realizes it or not.