Babies in Pumpkins

My mother has been...gently urging me to somehow insert our child into a gourd and then photograph the occasion.  I don't know if she got the idea from her best friend, or gave it to her best friend, but because Carrigan (mom's best friend's new grandbaby - 2 weeks older than Maggie) did it, now Maggie needed to do it.

This weekend was our annual Pumpkin Carving party with our dear friends Dusti and Kate.  This is our 5th year, and we always enjoy the day.  Liz was, as usual, working, so it fell to me to disembowel a pumpkin and get Maggie into it.  After purchasing the largest gourd I could find and examining it, I realized my healthy 16-pound baby girl would not ever slide neatly into the top of the pumpkin.  So, being a woman of intelligence and ingenuity, I simply carved off the entire back of the thing and popped her into it.

Unfortunately, she was grumpy and cold and ready for a nap, so I only got a few pictures and only one or two are any good.  The arm in the background is my friend Kate, holding Maggie upright (she said she's photoshop herself out, but I think it adds character).  Needless to say, they aren't nearly as poised and cute as Carrigan was...but I did my best!  Especially with a baby one day after her shots who was slightly feverish and really not amused with the entire situation - as the first photo illustrates.