Beaming Brennan — proudly "driving" Daddy's car — won the first HawaiiMoms.com Cutest Baby Contest after hundreds of online votes. Go to www.HawaiiMoms.com to see the photos.

His mother, Kari Sing Chow of Honolulu, will receive a $500 Kahala Kids certificate for the grand-prize photo she took in Brennan's father's car. Brennan also will appear in a future ad campaign for Kahala Kids.

Chow said she and her husband, and their large extended families, made a big push to get people to vote for Brennan, who's now 20 months. "We were really hustling," she said. "I have a big family and my husband has a big family. We told our co-workers, and my cousins had their co-workers vote. Even people in Japan and L.A. were voting."

Wahiawa's Jaeda Mae came in second place, and Corey of Honolulu came in third.

There were more than 1,100 photo entries sent, and thousands of ballots cast.

Chow said she selected the photo of Brennan because he's a true boy's boy — a lover of cars.

"Anything to do with cars and trucks and he goes crazy," said Chow, who works at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.

Brennan is named after another winner — UH quarterback Colt Brennan, who came to baby Brennan's first birthday party.

Reach Diane Seo at dseo@honoluluadvertiser.com.