This beautiful photo by Rudolf Brosztl shows a loving couple counting the days until their daughter will be born. There are three more images in the set at the link.

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Lyndsay at Coco Cake Cupcakes made this marvelous cupcake tableau for a 1-year old's birthday party. The head is covered with fondant and the cupcakes are iced with two different colors swirled together in imitation of Eric Carle's watercolors. Best of all, because it's made of cupcakes, this assembly is easy to divide among party guests.

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This luxury ($2,199!) bathtub will no doubt provide great fun to the little boy or girl who wants to be a fighterfighter. It slips over existing bathtubs, but presumably requires one with specific dimensions. Link -via OhGizmo! | Photo: American Standard

People ask me, "John, why do you prefer DC to Marvel?" Well, this. I mean, do you really think that Wolverine would bother?

This kid had lost his dad in the crowd, and freaked out until he saw the Flash and Wonder Woman. He went up to the Flash to ask for help, because he knows him

Now to be clear: these were just cosplayers, not the real Flash and Wonder Woman. Link -via Fanboy

And it's time for you to walk on your own. Laura Miller's photoblog Walk is a tour of children who are still in strollers, though they're really old enough to walk on their own. Miller gets hate mail for her work.

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Taco the dog wants to be like his hoomin puppeh, so he crawls, too! He has a ways to go, though, as the baby is faster.

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I've tried the Duck Season, Wabbit Season trick on my toddler, but I've never been successful. This parent, however, was made it work. If a person insists on contradicting you, just reverse yourself.

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So much of parenting is watching your kids destroy your stuff. The other part is making the kids take responsibility for having done so. eBay seller daney21 is selling his sons' collection of Beyblades -- that's a type of manga-inspired spinning toy -- to pay for the bathtub that the boys destroyed while playing with them:

We are selling 8 Beyblades, 2 of them light up. As you can tell they are not happy about this! They have been using their bathtub as a "battle arena" and Beyblades + Bathtub = Destruction!!! With the metal ones they managed to scrape the enamel off the tub, take a chunk of tub out and break off the soap holder. SO if you "win" this auction DON'T play with in a bathtub!!! We have recieved a quote of $500.00 to replace the tub, some tiles, and soap holder + labor of course! They had approxamently $125.67 in their piggy banks that will be going to toward the cost. We will use the profit from this auction towards the balance and then it is onto other toys!

So far, the bidding is over $9,000.

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Comedian Weird Al Yankovic has written a children's book! It's called When I Grow Up and is about a boy pondering his future career options, including giraffe milker and circus snail trainer. Yankovic, as you can imagine, is a great narrator for this type of story.

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Actually, it's a just a "Deep Space Fighter Bed and Galaxy Mural", but it's clear that the TIE Fighter from Star Wars was the inspiration for the design. This is a custom-made bed by Posh Tots, a company that makes luxury furniture for children. You can view five more images at the link.

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Previously: From Cradle to Grave: The Story of Life Told with Beds

Thomas Perkins is an Emmy Award-winning animator. He's also a father, and he draws pictures on the lunch bags of this three children. At the link, you can find his blog devoted to the medium.

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Previously: Lunch Bag Art

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YouTube user JAMagicFilms took a picture almost every day during the first ten years of his/her daughter Natalie's life. The mostly consistent color coordination was a nice detail.

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Would you like for your baby to look like a deformed, three-armed mutant? Of course you would! Instructables user canida made such a costume for its* baby. Canida writes:

While we wanted to be subtle, this was almost too subtle - she wore the costume all day, and hardly anyone noticed! But when they finally detected a problem, the responses were excellent.

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*user profile lists canida's gender as "robot".

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Your adorable kid video for today is this young lady rockin' out while eating chili. She's the daughter of semi-famous DJ Omar Santana and she's listening to one of her daddy's tracks.

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Those of you who haven't lived in Alabama may struggle to grasp the magnitude of the rivalry between the respective football fans of the University of Alabama and Auburn University. Suffice it to say that Alabamians take their football very seriously.

That's why the ultimate threat against a 4-year old Crimson Tide fan is to take him to the Auburn Store.

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