It was hard to pick my very last Image of the Day, there were so many good sleepy photos in the pool. But finally I decided a co-sleeping picture was funny enough for me. Thanks to Miss Zoot for this yawn inducing shot of a dad and daughter enjoying their favorite past time.

April is the month for sleeping babies and children at Image of the Day. If you'd like your own child featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool - and please set them so they are downloadable in multiple sizes. We'll select an image every day to highlight. Be sure to read the intro on the main Flickr page for more information, and please limit your uploading to 5 photos per day. Thanks!

Thanks to mjdabney for this picture of one of the most amazing sleep positions I've ever seen. It's part yoga, part totally wiped out.

April is the month for sleeping babies and children at Image of the Day. If you'd like your own child featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool - and please set them so they are downloadable in multiple sizes. We'll select an image every day to highlight. Be sure to read the intro on the main Flickr page for more information, and please limit your uploading to 5 photos per day. Thanks!

Yesterday I was wistfully looking at all these sleeping baby pictures and fantasizing about another offspring. But then, I saw this picture of a sleeping teenager and I thought, 'Even they look cute sleeping.' The puppy's cute too. Thanks to GraceD for reminding us even our big teenage babies are sweet.

April is the month for sleeping babies and children at Image of the Day. If you'd like your own child featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool - and please set them so they are downloadable in multiple sizes. We'll select an image every day to highlight. Be sure to read the intro on the main Flickr page for more information, and please limit your uploading to 5 photos per day. Thanks!

Since Larissa let me try my hand at the Image of the Day, my husband's been thinking about going for another screening with the urologist just to be sure his vasectomy worked (he's had three clear sperm counts). All these sleeping babies are making me yearn just a little bit. Thank you so much to stepintomythimble for this beautiful shot of Maeve in a beautiful hand knit hat made by mom.

April is the month for sleeping babies and children at Image of the Day. If you'd like your own child featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool - and please set them so they are downloadable in multiple sizes. We'll select an image every day to highlight. Be sure to read the intro on the main Flickr page for more information, and please limit your uploading to 5 photos per day. Thanks!

Yesterday at the gym, as I attempted to distract myself from the chorus in my mind of, "I hate this. I hate this. I hate this. I hate this." I eavesdropped on the conversation of two older ladies nearby.

One woman asked how the other's daughter was handling her newborn twins. She answered they were doing well, everyone was settling into a routine but both her daughter and son-in-law were exhausted. The other woman laughed and said, "Well that's just the way it is at first. But you know, what they don't realize is: it only gets harder as they get older."

If I hadn't been busy cursing my treadmill I may have offered my point of view. I've found my job has gotten easier in some ways as my children got older, and then harder in other ways. But overall, I think having a seven-year-old and a four-year-old is easier for me.

I struggled with the sleep deprivation of newborns and the phsyical aspects of taking care of small babies. I didn't like the constant diaper changes and feedings and on and on and on. Now I tell my kids to get dressed, they can grab a snack for themselves, when we leave the house I don't require reinforcements and carry on luggage. For those reasons, having older children fits me and my personality better.

It's true, things are more complex as my children grow up and away from me. I worry about things which have much further reaching consequences than whether or not I have enough diapers in the diaper bag. But still, this part of my parenting life has fit me infinitely better.

What about you? Does parenting little ones fit you better or does parenting fit you better with each passing year?

Today, April 25th is Free Cone Day at Ben and Jerry's. Which would explain why yesterday it was a balmy 80 degrees and now, on Free Cone Day, it's 42 degrees.

Stop by between noon and 8pm and go to the Ben and Jerry's website to find a location near you. [Link via Awesome!]

The Illinois legislature has approved a bill to ban toys and other items containing anything more than a trace of lead. The bill comes after a 4-year-old boy died after swallowing a small lead filled charm and other toys and children's products have been recalled due to dangerous amounts of lead.

I have a little thing for Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois and when I hear his name in the news my ears perk up. He has taken a similar bill to the national level. [Thanks, Elizabeth!]

I love the contrast of the green grass and the white shirts in this shot. I also love that someone in this world has a lawn which has not been devoured by grubs like mine. Thanks to Mamarosa for this shot of her son and daughter.

April is the month for sleeping babies and children at Image of the Day. If you'd like your own child featured here, simply upload photos into our group Flickr pool - and please set them so they are downloadable in multiple sizes. We'll select an image every day to highlight. Be sure to read the intro on the main Flickr page for more information, and please limit your uploading to 5 photos per day. Thanks!

Tonight, in at least two corners of the parenting blogs love means eating you up.

At the Big Yellow House Chris is celebrating her daughter's third birthday and she would like to eat her as if a chocolate covered biscottie dunked in coffee. Very sweet birthday wishes from a mother to her little girl.

Laid Off Dad is celebrating his anniversary and calls his wife the "biggest, blackest jellybean in the bag", and he actually likes black jellybeans (gag).

Kevin Dillon, 40, married his girlfriend Jane Stuart, 28, this weekend in Las Vegas.

Dillon's spokeperson confirmed the wedding and went on to say the couple is expecting their first child this summer.