WITH their smiling faces and cheeky grins, entrants to this year's Daily Echo Child of the Year 2003 competition have been pouring in.

Proud parents have been queuing up to enter their youngsters into our fantastic competition.

These first few pictures show the standards are extremely high, but hurry because there's just seven days left for your child to take part in our annual contest, which offers fabulous prizes worth £1,000.

Photographers from BCR Photographic will be on hand to capture your child's character at Marlands Shopping Centre in Southampton until Saturday, June 7.

Get there early if you want to beat the crowds.

The competition is completely free. All you have to do is turn up with the coupon printed on the left.

Child of the Year 2003 will be voted on by Daily Echo readers who will decide the 15 finalists from which the judges will have to choose.

Our specially-ap-pointed panel will then pick the top three from each category: 0-9 months; 10-18 months; 19-35 months and 3-5 years.

An overall winner of the competition will also be selected.

Up for grabs for the winner of the entire competition is the coveted Daily Echo crystal bowl, a certificate, a framed photograph of your child and store vouchers.

Winners of each individual category will also receive a certificate, store vouchers and a framed print.