We’re back with another cover caption contest, especially because a lot of you may be in need of some books right now.
Big thanks to Jenny for sending this cover in!
From Jenny: I just can’t get past the photoshopped pumpkin cap on the baby. The poor thing.
Sarah: For once, I think the dude and the baby were in the same photo, but that cap was very likely not.
Tara: I want to see the hat the baby was actually wearing. Either way, I’m not sure the baby is into it.
Sarah: “THIS IS ITCHY. NO THANKS.”
Tara: This photo was taken about 10 seconds before that baby ripped a different ugly hat off its head.
Here are the rules for captioning that cover:
Comment below with your caption! Caption that cover however you wish! You can come up with a new title or tagline. What do you think the originally baby was really wearing? What do you name a pumpkin patch baby? Do pumpkin patches have a dress code? A winner will be randomly selected at the end of the contest!
The best captioner will receive a $10 bookstore credit to a book retailer of their choosing.
Standard disclaimers apply: We are not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18. It’s customary to don your finest flannel when picking out a pumpkin. No grabbing the stems, please! Comments will close Friday March 20, 2020 around noon ET, and a winner will be announced shortly thereafter.
Good luck!
Very late winner update!
Sorry for the delayed updated. Things have been…strange.
The winner of this caption content is Denise!
Maury’s Autumn Harvest Special: You are the Father!
Not entering, but found the photo series on a stock site, including this gem:
https://depositphotos.com/50295891/stock-photo-father-kissing-daughter.html
In which the baby looks directly at the audience with precisely the “What about this screams ‘romance’ to you?” sentiment I have every time I see a baby cover.
Little Pumpkin, Big Mess.
“Oh great, I’ve been in the pack-and-play for three hours while you’ve been doing lat pulldowns and ab cycles, but now there’s a camera around. you wanna take cute Daddy-daughter pictures?”
Hide the little prince in plain sight, they said.
It’s the only way to save the world, they said.
Little did they know that the evil king’s national guard’s anti-Halloween special forces sent their very hungriest.
REVENGE OF THE WEREPUNPKINS.
“MO-OM!”
They thought they were safe from the Vegan Zombies…
Big fertilizers breed good pumpkins
“Dude, it’s Halloween, you know, late October. I don’t care that it’s pumpkin tossing day at Crossfit, neither of us should be out here without shirts on. Now go get me a sweater and a bottle of pumpkin spice formula.”
Yum, yum… I love pumpkin pie!
So why is Farmer Patch holding the little pumpkin’s little pumpkins? That looks awfully uncomfortable for both of them.
The Great Pumpkin will appear and I will be waiting
9 months after the ball Cinderella discovered the coach wasn’t the only thing that turned into a pumpkin
Halloween Surprise in the Pumpkin patch
It wasn’t a bun in the oven, it was a pie. Pumpkin pie.
“But I found it in a really sincere pumpkin patch!”
The Chippendales were surprised when Anne Geddes came to do the photo shoot, but hey, you can’t argue with the results!
Is there a chance we’ll ever get the “Love/Hearts” back? I would heart so many of these captions!
“The Baby-Eating Mustache: a Halloween Tale of Horror.”
Half-Naked and Afraid…
A Halloween-Hypothermia Romance
@Kathy B, OMG, I laughed so loudly I snorted! Thank you, that was *chef’s kiss* perfect!!
Dad: If you pee on my hand one more time you’ll have to wear this stupid hat forever.
Baby: OK, I’ll poop instead.
The lack of clothing made the hay ride through the pumpkin patch really itchy but Diedra really wanted those pics for the Insta, and he wasn’t about to deny her. Especially not after she saved his ass in Chemistry lab.
As an aside, I looked at the stock photos and the ones where he’s reading to/with the kid are really adorable. But I’m probably genetically programmed to find guys with books sexy, small babies not with standing.
@SusanE: reminds me of an incident a million years ago when one of my daughter’s was potty training and she pooped on the carpet.
Me (scrubbing away): “I thought you told me you weren’t going to poop in your underwear again.”
Daughter (with the unassailable logic of a three-year-old): “I didn’t poop in my underwear, Mom. I pooped on the carpet.”
Happy days.
@StarlightArcher – thank you very much; my work here is done! LOL
I hate squash but love you!
@DDD:
Three-year-old logic is strange. Once I heard my daughter singing a song called “The More We Get Together the Happier We’ll Be”. She kept singing “The Morning We Get Together …” and I could not convince her that the other way made more sense. A few days later I heard her singing “The More We Sleep Together …”
I didn’t even try.
“Mmmm… Pumpkin Spice Baby. Get in my belly!”
Maury’s Autumn Harvest Special: You are the Father!
He didn’t expect one night in the pumpkin patch to result in a little pumpkin of his own.
Is anyone concerned that something is growing out of my head and the man holding me seems to have fallen asleep?