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Mommy & Me

Originally posted Thursday July 19, 2007 12:00 PM EDT

Cruise (with Suri in St. Jean Cap Ferrat on June 19) "is a really good dad – very attentive," says Queen Latifah, who spent time with the family while shooting Mad Money with Holmes. Photo by: BAUER-GRIFFIN

From their sprawling home in Beverly Hills – which they share with Cruise's mom, Mary Lee, sister Cass and kids Isabella, 14, and Connor, 12, Cruise's children with ex-wife Nicole Kidman – to their travels around the world, family bonding has clearly been a top priority for Cruise and Holmes since their lavish Italian wedding last November. "They're definitely a family that values their time together," says Khouri. Which means trading off parenting duties on each other's film sets and taking Suri nearly everywhere.

During a beachside idyll at the June wedding festivities of good friend and media mogul James Packer in the south of France, Holmes took Suri into the Mediterranean while Cruise hung with his buddies. "She was holding Suri and saying, 'See the waves, see the boats,' " recalls an observer. "She didn't have a nanny – she just seemed completely natural and confident with her daughter." (Later, at the wedding reception, Cruise playfully busted out a dance to his Risky Business anthem "Old Time Rock and Roll," says a source. "At the end Katie started dancing with him. It was great.")

Like all proud new parents, even when Cruise and Holmes enjoy a grown-up night out, the conversation inevitably turns to their little girl. At a June 17 dinner in Madrid with close friends David and Victoria Beckham, "Tom and Katie were gushing about how beautiful Suri is," says a restaurant source. "All night it was 'She's this' and 'She's that.' Both parents are so in love with that child." Not that they didn't make the most of the couple time, too: "They were constantly holding hands and looking into each other's eyes."