Admit it: you can't resist that A-list toddler and her adorable, designer outfits. Neither can we. That's why today's distraction is nothing more than an addictive slideshow of the pint-sized fashionista's best looks.

Images: Many styles of Suri Cruise

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"It looks like a mullet, but no, those were actually just my bangs! My mother was a hair stylist, and must have thought this was just so cool.

This wasn't how I wore my hair every day, but my mother got us up extra early on picture day to style our hair. An extra thanks goes out to my grandmother, who recently sent this photo to me, a painful reminder of how "cool" I was ( or not!)!"

– Submitted by Kristie Merz, reminiscing about her memorable style in 1992

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By Anna Fader of MommyPoppins.com

As parents we are often looking for ways to make the holidays a little less about getting and a little more about giving. One way to do this is to host a toy swap. It's a great opportunity to teach the lesson of giving, make the holidays greener, help children in need, and clean out your closets a bit — all through a fun event that brings your community together.

I recently teamed up with another blogger to host two toy swaps in our neighborhood. Although we did this on a large scale, publicizing the events through our blogs and the local media, hosting a swap is easy and can be done as simply as gathering a few families. Here are some tips for organizing your own holiday toy swap:

Choose a location
A small swap can be done in a home or you can ask a local church or other community organization to let you use a room. Other than a room, all you need is some tables to put toys out on. Simple. We partnered with a great playspace, Kidville, to host our swaps. They generously provided the location, activities, and allowed participants to play in their gym, making the events an even bigger draw.

Invite your friends or community
You can make your swap as small or as big as you like. It could be just you and your friends, or your school, or you can publicize it to the larger community. The bigger it is, the more variety of toys there will be to swap — and more to donate.

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Refreshments
If you are doing a larger swap, you might want to provide some food or beverages. We asked a new catering business and a local grocer to donate some snacks in exchange for the exposure of having their food tasted by local families.

Guidelines
Although some swaps set up systems where you get tickets for bringing things to swap and can use those tickets to take things away, I find that people are happy to get rid of as much as they can and don't want to take as much as they brought. I like to keep things simple and allow people to just bring and take as much as they like. This makes running the event much easier as there's no system to create beforehand or manage during the event.

Do it for charity
At the end of your swap, you are guaranteed to have many toys left over. These can be donated to a local charity. I like to add a second charity element by asking all who attend the swap to bring a new gift for our holiday toy drive to provide gifts for children in need. At our recent swap we donated about 100 new toys and 10 large garbage bags filled with used toys to a local shelter for homeless families. They will be having a party before Christmas where Santa will give the toys out to families who have lost virtually everything.

Our swaps were a lot of fun. At the end of the events many parents came over to say what a great time they had, how happy they were to clean out their closets and toy chests a little bit before the holidays (when we all know that more will be coming in), and that they had found a few nice toys to take home for their children.

I think it's wonderful that we can recycle our used toys rather than dumping them in a landfill when our children have grown bored with them. It's also a great lesson for children to take a moment to pick out some of their own toys that they no longer use and to know that they are giving them away for other children that can use them and perhaps may need them more. This brings the lesson of giving home to children by making them give something they understand the value of, their own toys. But the part that really makes the whole thing worthwhile to me is thinking of the children who will be getting their toys from Santa at that Christmas party and knowing that our community came together to make that happen.

Anna Fader blogs at Mommy Poppins, providing unique resources and activity ideas for families in or traveling to New York City.

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With just four more days till Halloween, time is running out to send us your cute kids in creative costumes! Need inspiration? Check out these adorably spooky tykes:

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From TODAY Style Editor Bobbie Thomas

As a self-proclaimed shoe addict, I can easily recall my very first pair of heels. I was probably 6 years old, and shocked my mother with my request to be a witch for Halloween. As she was a fan of Hello Kitty, Jem and all things pretty in pink, this would have been the last idea on her list. But when I spied those shiny black plastic pumps peeking out from the bottom of a clear costume bag, I was mesmerized. I could have cared less about candy. Instead, I spent the entire spooky evening walking around the house, in love with the idea of reaching new heights.

This memory flooded back when I saw photos of the endearing little fashion plate that is Suri Cruise. TomKat’s daughter may only be 3, but grown women such as myself already covet her closet. While the world-famous toddler made headlines with her one-of-a-kind pair of custom Roger Vivier flats, she is now stepping into the spotlight a few inches taller. She’s growing before our eyes, but it’s the glittering princess pumps she’s been stepping out in around town (on more than one occasion) that are causing a stir, and raising concerns over whether the footwear choice is innocent or inappropriate.

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Parents to medical experts are divided over whether a child in high heels is a fun example of dress-up − or simply encourages a harmful habit, with potentially dangerous long-term health effects on posture and development. Are people are overreacting to a little girl's fashion whim? Or is this, like tweens wearing makeup or carrying cell phones (and, in Suri's case, a Starbucks cup), just another question of how young is too young to act so grown-up?

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