Earlier this week I made a simple request on the Mommy Shorts Facebook Fanpage: “Whose got an infant and a camera?” Forty people responded and then about half emailed me for further instruction. Approximately half of those people actually followed through.
The assignment?
Photograph your baby in the cheapest dumbest easiest Halloween costumes possible. Use props around your house and do as many as you like.
Examples: Drape a kermit frog over your baby and call her Lady Gaga. Stick a black pipe cleaner above your baby’s lip and call him Salvatore Dali. Prop your baby next to a tool box and some wainscoting and call him Ty Pennington.
You get the idea?
Here’s what you guys came up with:
Thank you to Brianne, Tracy, Denae, Gina, Ashley, Farrah, Chrissy, Kris D, Britney, Kristen, Hillary, Vanessa, Pam and Marlana for honoring my inane request. You guys did AWESOME. I sincerely hope you all had fun with it.
If anyone else would like to make a cheap-ass-last-minute-no-effort costume for their baby, it’s not too late. Just post it on the wall of the Mommy Shorts Facebook Fanpage.
And EVERYONE should post pictures of their kids in their ACTUAL HALLOWEEN COSTUMES next week. I’m gonna give awards for the best costumes next Friday.
Have a good weekend and buy your candy before only the crappy stuff is left!
— Mommy Shorts
These are hilarious. The question is which one will I make my toddler be.
I totally laughed out loud at Freida Kahlo!!
Yeah, what Alison said. Ha!
Loved frida!!
Love it! Lindsay Lohan might possibly be my favorite. Nothing quite like teaching your baby early.
Hysterical! I love Anna, Moby, and the Deviled Egg best. But they are all excellent.
OMG – the sushi! Love it. Those are soooo great.
Ha! I definitely got a giggle over Frida and Kim’s stuffed booty. 🙂
I actually have a picture with these same bottles of liquor sitting next to my other daughter who is now 4 on her first New years eve. :p
Haha! These are great!
These. Are. Awesome!! Great job, everybody, and thanks for the laugh to start my day.
These are hilarious!! I noted that they’re all babies… Obviously the only kids that will actually SIT STILL to let you pimp them out for a photo!
My personal favorite is “Professional Gamer” because my husband is a computer-games geek (currently obsessed with Starcraft II)
LOVE these!! Hilarious. Did Kellan’s mom actually draw on his face? Major points there.
Oh my god. These are absolutely wonderful. Wouldn’t even know who to vote for. Frida Kahlo would certainly be on the shortlist.
Sushi and deviled egg both look like work to me but everything else is up to slacker code. Excellent work!
LOL yes, I did. It was eyeliner, he was sleeeping, and I felt like a total frat boy doing it!
This was SO much fun. I haven never been very mature, but I figured drawing on my kid was a bit much, even for me … but you gave me an excuse and I thank you for it. All of them had me laughing.
Still laughing at Frida!!!
Baby Sushi for the win.
Brilliant idea!
Fantastic!
Love Dali and Sushi.. and Moby the best.
They’re all super cute.
I agree, Freida was so clever!!
Laughed out loud at Anna Wintour, Oscar the Grouch, and Moby. And Annika’s parents are hilarious – Kim Kardashian and a Wall Street Occupier? Brilliant!
OH, that Frida Kahlo unibrow made me die. LOVE.
I’m with every other one o’ ya. Frida? Seriously!!
Love Popeye, and his real name 🙂
I hate that I missed that on FB…just probes I need to get on there more often!
These are awesome! The deviled egg is my favorite!
Thanks! It was a blast! I was inspired by Salvatore Dali- didn’t want to make my little girl him… but why not give her a unibrow?
Oh… my…. I have to sit down. Absolutely fricken hilarious! Why do I waste my money on costumes?
Everyone is so damn clever.
(Except for me.)
Absolutely LOVE Oscar the Grouch, Kim K. & the Deviled Egg! Soo cute!!
OH. LOL at Frida.
HAS to be Frida.
Love that you do this…
Genius! It totally made me snort!
I died laughing at Freida and Sushi. Genius!
Sushi wins in my book! No contest!!
If this were a vote Freida Kahlo would be my runaway #1.
OK, think i love Freida and Moby – they should date!
yeahh Baby Sushi realy the best.
Deviled Egg and Popeye were my favorites but good job everyone so cute and creative!
Freida Kahlo killed me. If our little Doc Holiday wasn’t already going as a pumpkin, I’d be stealing on of these.
Love these! We just posted some quick and easy ideas on our site too. Only a few more days left til the big day!