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We admit it. These things make us misty. Army Specialist Matthew Peters of Owensville, Missouri spent a year deployed in Kuwait and Iraq, and hadn’t seen his young son, Blake, in more than six months. When he came home, he decided to pop in on the unsuspecting tyke at school for a hug the kid will probably never forget.

In a move that demonstrates some seriously pro parenting, this savvy new Dad has paints a wall-size ‘Calvin & Hobbes’ mural in his son Ryan’s playroom. It’s hard to get too upset about that monster in your closet when there’s a lovable tiger on your wall, right? This terrific time-lapse video documents the reproduction of cartoonist Bill Watterson’s iconic characters from start to finish. L