First off, let’s just get this out of the way.
So that you know.
So that I know that you know what she is for Halloween. And everyone’s happy. And we’re still friends.
She is a Pink Lamb.
Okay? A Pink Lamb.
By process of elimination (and the size of my bank account), this costume made it, even though it came in second in the Poll. Thanks to all who voted, but I was not about to put down $100 for the Lion on eBay.
Now pay attention.
There is a quiz at the end of this post.
Step 1: Take a freshly bathed baby and place on changing table. Smile a lot.
Step 2: Proceed to gingerly strap costume onto baby while chanting, “No pooping, Ruby! No pooping!”
(Those nature programs on National Geographic must be wrong, because I never once saw a lamb with a pink bow tie.)
Step 3: Place bewildered baby on lap while silently cursing People Who Design Costumes To Button In The Back.
They have obviously not dressed squirmy children.
Step 4: Discover that the headgear is TOO SMALL.
But that’s okay. It’s all brains.
Step 5, 6, 7: Try to hold the camera steady while simultaneously giggling, cooing, and shooting endlessly.
Step 8: One parent distracts the baby while the other slips the Pumpkin Prop into frame.
Step 9: Allow baby to interact with pumpkin for some unscripted too-cute-for-words moments.
Step 10: Watch as baby realizes the costume is on her and proceeds to pick at it. That’s when you know it’s time to end the photo shoot.
(But it’s three days to Halloween so we still have 72 hours to perfect this.)
Pop quiz!
I LOVE the costume on her! The photos are awesome! The “too small for her head” head gear with the dangling ears is just too too funny! Cute!
ERrm…
were the antennas part of the mise-en-scene? Makes her look like a super cute alien rabbit – suddenly visions of the Jetsons zipp into my mind……ah those days of vegging out in front of TV after school….
Dot! That is a trick question!
Does the question refer to Ruby before the costume, or after putting on the costume. With so much fur on her, it’s hard to tell who’s heavier.
Well… now you have a ready-made costume for the nursery school’s annual nativity / farmyard / Mary Had A Little Lamb concert. =p
She’s so adorable. Luv the one where she’s hugging the pumpkin.
AHHH!!! too cute! too cute!!! i cannot stand it!!
and i don’t know which is heavier! they both look about the same weight!
(and i didn’t have to pay attention to be able to answer that question! that was a ploy to make us look intently at ruby’s photos, wasn’t it?)
She’s so cute!!
Thanks all! It’s not a trick question. And no trick photography either. She is a big little girl, that one!
Bridgette: Not antennas, bows on her ears! HAHA!
whenever i need a good giggle i always come to your site to look at pix of that too cute miss ruby. i could not stop laughing at the pix of her laughing and clapping her hands in the lamb costume. she’s adorable.
your biceps must be ripped. jake was a 20lb 6 month old as well. it’s hard to believe, but now, he’s so rangy that he’s still wearing size 8 shorts.