You've got to hand it to the little boy in the following video. He's got confidence, guts, and more determination than a honey badger. He wants a kiss from the little girl, and he's not going to stop until he gets it.

It's weirdly familiar of scenes I've seen play out in bars when some guy just won't take no from a girl ... only in miniature. Repeatedly he tries, and repeatedly she shoots him down and even shoves him down. But his mission is kissin', and he's determined to carry it out.

Long ago, when I dreamed of my future children, I saw them in clean, adorable outfits, preferably those from European designers (hey, I was dreaming.). Yeah right.

Getting clothes (or more specifically the clothes you want) on a toddler is one of the most challenging tasks known to moms. They have opinions (and STRONG ones) about them, and often insist on doing it themselves, which would be great ... if they had a freaking clue what they were doing. Instead they come out in the craziest, most mismatched messes ... and then expect us to take them out in public like that. They refuse to make any distinction between "dress up clothes," pajamas, and the "real" clothes, and there you are in the grocery store with Batman.

It's a good thing they're cute, and like so many other things with parenthood, we often just have to let go of what we thought things would be like, and just let them be. Here are eight adorable kids who dressed themselves.

What crazy outfits do your kids wear?

I get misty-eyed sometimes when I go through pictures of my son when he was just a toddler. Those sweet chubby cheeks, that feathery hair, his little ways. But there is one thing I have absolutely no nostalgia for: The messes. We had some gigantic toy disasters, especially after play dates. But as parents of young devils know, the messes can get a lot deeper than that. And a lot harder to clean up.

Take a walk down memory lane as we recall some of the worst toddler-made disasters in our lives.

That time she poured baby powder all over everything. That time he got into your glitter. The toilet paper bonanza of 2009. Or that fateful day when you thought it might be fun to paint together. Ha! It was not. SIGH. Aren't you glad you didn't have to clean up these messes?

Boy, can I ever relate to this week's episode of CafeMom Studios' Coffee Shop Confessions: "I Use Housework to Avoid Playing With My Child." Well, I can sort of relate. See, the anonymous mom in the video has a secret -- she'd rather dust or do dishes than sit down on the floor with her toy car-obsessed son making "vroom, vroom" noises.

I avoid housework at all costs and my kids are both pretty much past the point of making "vroom, vroom" noises, but I still get what this gal is going through. I love my kids more than anything ... still, playing with toys feels and has always felt like a form of torture to me. Even growing up. (Yes, I was an odd child, but that's not the point.) Having my fabulous children did not change my stripes.

So what's a non-playful mom to do? In my opinion, Andrew Shue had the best, most practical advice on the subject ...

You know what never, ever gets old? Watching toddlers and babies try to eat lemons. That sour-face picker, the little shudder they do -- priceless! I couldn't get enough of it when my son was a toddler.

That's why I've curated this lovely selection of toddlers eating lemons and limes. Watch these kids' faces turn inside-out with sourly sour sourness. Mmm, lemons, tasty tasty.

All Kids Allowed!There's a billboard right outside my child's pre-school that seems to be reserved for all the latest movie releases. This means my kids had plenty of time to obsess over the release date of The Lorax. Of course we were going. OF COURSE. Now they're onto counting down the days until The Pirates! Band of Misfits is up on a screen near us.

These are movies for kids, and so no one should be surprised that when you sit down to enjoy that movie, you just might be surrounded by kids. And kids are antsy, occasionally loud, and always unpredictable. So do you expect to enjoy a G-rated movie in silence? Some people do, for some bizarre reason.

If only kids stayed as fascinated by household chores as this little guy. He's still at that magical stage of toddlerhood when spray bottles and rags are as much fun to play with as blocks and bouncy balls.

Oh, how I miss that age! Except, of course, it's not like tiny kids are actually all that helpful when they "help." Hence the adorably poor aim this boy has with the spray bottle and the dropping of the rag ("uh-oh!").

How awesome would it be if kids retained their enthusiasm for, say, loading the dishwasher, when they had the motor skills sufficient to complete the task?

This is how much I love otters: When I was a teenager, a boy I was dating surprised me with a keychain shaped like an otter ... and even though I wasn't that into the guy, I kept dating him for months. All because he bought me an otter keychain!

So this video of an adorable little girl having her first otter encounter just kills me. It slays me!!

I've watched my kids do the same exact back-and-forth chase at our local aquarium countless times, and it never gets old. If not for the part about them needing water, otters would clearly make the perfect pets.

And guess what? If your little ones like otters, they'll love the secret trick an aquarium employee taught us one day: