I am tall when I am a toddler, but I turn into a baby as I get older. I live in a glass house and wear a wire hat. What am I?
An incandescent light bulb
A 'tall' old-style bulb burns out or is called a 'bulb' (which sounds like baby, or starts large and burns down), housed in glass with a tungsten filament wire inside.
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