Since yesterday was little more than the internet’s version of Salute To The Worst Celebrity Parents Ever! I thought we’d change tactics and focus on the parents that do a fabulous job with their children. Just check out Travis Barker picking pumpkins with son Landon plus daughters Atiana and Alabama:

OK, Britney? Are you watching? Put down the Mallomars and look. He’s not balancing that pumpkin with a Jolly Rancher spiked Zima in his other hand and neither should you.

Celebrity Babylon has a bunch more darling pics of the Barker clan picking the pumps and frolicking at the petting zoo.

After a seemingly chipper Britney dropped the boys off with their father, she continued to astound the world by heading off to the tanning salon. Momma Brit-Brit can’t possibly gain custody back without some orange spray on mist covering that gelatinous middle. Any judge who would give babies back to some pale pasty mom is an animal! Ms. Spears’ attorney was on hand to tell People mag exactly why Brit’s babies aren’t subject to her ways anymore:

Britney’s attorney, SORRELL TROPE, tells People.com — “We weren’t able to prove compliance with what the judge ordered.” “Specifically,” he says, “the judge ordered that by 10 a.m. [Monday] morning, both parties show valid California driving licenses. I’ve been unable to produce evidence of that.” After Britney handed over her two young boys to daddy KEVIN FEDERLINE Monday, the pop star applied for a California driver’s license in Van Nuys. Her lawyer says another reason behind the judge’s temporary custody ruling “was a claim by Mr. Federline’s attorney that she had not complied with a previous order the court had made — before I came on board — about having a random drug and alcohol test.” “There’s no evidence that she actually failed a test,” he notes.

No evidence? After the tanning salon escapade, she checked into the Peninsula Hotel and started laughing hysterically when some photographers got into a fight. If losing your kids then going about your daily life as if nothing had changed isn’t evidence of some sort of crack pipe inhalation, I don’t know what is. What will it take for Sorrell Trope to change his mind? When he’s riding shotgun in her Mini Cooper trying to get her to put her bra back on because the guy at the In n’ Out drive thru doesn’t snap a cell phone pic and sell it to the tabloids?

It’s a little unfair for the media to be focused on what a horrendous mother Britney Spears has been labeled as when there are so many other celebrity parents mistreating their children. Spice Girl Melanie Brown ditched her daughter with the housekeeper to run off the Vegas so she could marry a wifebeater(not the shirt):

Tonia Lamere says Spice Girl Mel B left young Angel Iris with her while she eloped to Sin City with Stephen Belafonte. “One evening of baby-sitting turned into four days!” Lamere tells Star magazine. “The child was sick, there was no nanny, and when Mel called, she never even asked about the baby.” Lamere also claims she was forced to buy food for baby Iris and her older half-sister (Phoenix Chi, out of her own pocket during the four days Brown was away.

Well, what does this woman expect from her? She was hired as an indentured servant to a washed up pop star who is still waiting for Eddie Murphy to cough up some diaper money. You can’t expect Melanie to dip her into her own bank account to feed these children, no sir. Not when there is Cristal to be drunk in a pool of a swanky Las Vegas hotel after your ill advised marriage.

After Britney took her baby boys to the drive thru at Carl’s Jr. for one last milkshake, she deposited them into the arms of Kevin and his bodyguards until further notice. What went wrong? She incurred the wrath of of Commissioner Gordon(note to self: good comic book character name) by failing to do almost every single thing the courts asked her to do to keep joint custody of Sean and Jayden!

She refused to see a drug counselor, submit to drug testing, register for parenting classes or even sign off on the judge’s orders! She didn’t have time to put down the vodka and pick up a pen? She also flaunted the fact that she still doesn’t have a California Driver’s License by taking the kids out for a spin so she could do a little shopping, something she was under direct judge’s orders NOT to do. If I was that judge, I would have awarded custody to a baked potato before letting Brit go home with her munchkins. At least the potato would have some shiny foil to keep them warm and essential carbohydrates to nourish their growing bodies.

Sean Preston and Jayden James have packed up their teddies and footie pajamas to live at daddy’s house until further notice:

A judge Monday ordered that pop star Britney Spears’ ex-husband, Kevin Federline, take custody of their two children until further notice, starting Wednesday, court documents showed.The order, issued by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon, stated that Federline “is to retain physical custody of the minor children (starting at noon) on Wednesday … until further order of the court

The reasons for the change in plans wasn’t made clear, but you know she showed up to take her drug test with a bong in one hand and a mini bottle of Jack Daniels, picking the wedgie out of her crack then accidentally trying to take a sip of urine, claiming that someone told her it was a nice hot cup of lemonade.