TwitterHappy 43rd birthday, Josh Duhamel!
The actor first stole our hearts as baby-faced Leo du Pres on the ABC soap opera All My Children and continues to do so to this day, more recently in the 2013 tear-jerker Safe Haven with Julianne Hough and the action-packed Transformer flicks. It's no secret he's always been one of our favorite Hollywood hunks, but the role we just can't get enough of Josh in?
Fatherhood, of course!
Just over two years ago, Duhamel and wife Fergie welcomed their absolutely precious son Axl into the world. Lucky for us, the loving parents have never shied away from sharing a few of Axl's childhood milestones with fans, further proving our point that Josh might just be the greatest hunk of a dad in show biz.
Celebrate the birthday boy's special day by checking out the nine moments the Battle Creek star was a picture-perfect father:
Some dads take Halloween seriously, but none as much as Josh. He even went as far to sport a ridiculous (and kind of creepy) clown costume just to snag some candy for his little guy!
With baby Axl on his daddy's shoulders, we don't think we could ever find a cuter view!
There's nothing quite like a bond between father and son. Duhamel gushed to E! News, "He's a such a sweet little guy. He's really fun and social. He's super curious and talking like crazy. I think he gets that from [Fergie]. She was talking really young. He seems to have that gift of gab."
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Cue the awws! In this video posted to Josh's Facebook, the doting dad tries to teach Axl how to count. And just when things couldn't get cuter, Duhamel busts into a lullaby of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Sounds like Fergie's skills are also rubbing off on her hubby of six years!
Josh looks right at home with one baby in his arms, but two?! Looks like the Duhamel fam might need to get preggo for a second time.
It might be easy to assume Axl's stylish mama dresses her blond cutie, but alas! Josh recently revealed to E! News that he is the fashion-minded 'rent: "Well, he's a boy. I want to make sure he looks like a boy, and not a member of a boy band."
Axl sure is lucky he picked a fun and easygoing father. Back when the blondie was just seven weeks old, Josh told E! News the hardest part of fatherhood was dodging flying poop. "I'll be in the middle of changing the diaper and he'll literally spray me," he said. "It's figuring out when he's actually done, when we can go in for the diaper change. You never know. It's a crap shoot, no pun intended."
Josh is fully on board to support his son in whichever career path he chooses, acting or not. The proud papa told E! News, "I'm not trying to push the entertainment way of life on him. I want him to become a normal kid first and grow up a bit. Later down the road if he wants to do it, fine, but I want to give him as much as a normal childhood as I can."
It's natural for most dads to have high expectations for their children's futures, but Josh is really gunning for Axl to reach the stars—literally. "As long as he is a professional athlete and an astronaut. After he retires from becoming a professional baseball player he'll go on to NASA and become an astronaut. That's all I expect, and then he can do whatever he wants," he joked in an interview with E! News.
If Duhamel hasn't proven his qualities as an amazing father already, his parenting goals say it all. "We're not trying to raise a spoiled, entitled brat. We're really not. We really want to raise a good kid. That's our goal," the hottie explained to us.
If the 2015 Father of the Year nominations are still being accepted, consider this our submission! Wishing Josh an amazing birthday celebration.