Cirque de Soleil cast and crew along with people around the world shave their heads for kids with cancer.  Read more at St. Baldrick’s

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation has grown into the world’s largest fundraising event for childhood cancer.  Be sure to visit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation website for more information and click on Donate Now on their website in the right hand column to make a donation or consider getting involved and become a shavee.

March 6th, 2009 | Category: Angels Among Us | |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

My special Valentine this year was this charming little drawing by one of my seven year old dance students, Emily.  I just had to share it with you!  She’s quite accurate with her drawing showing herself in her pink ballet outfit and ballet shoes and me in my jazz outfit and dance sneakers!  We look to be having so much fun together too which instantly brought a smile to my face.  She also brought me a box of candy which we shared with the rest of the class.  Happy Valentine’s Day to Emily and everyone at ILTK!

February 14th, 2009 | Tags: Valentine's Day | Category: Holiday Happenings | |  Email This Post | Comments Off

You don’t have to be a kid, just a kid at heart, to enjoy a ride on a carousel, especially one with it’s original horses that was built in 1920! This beauty of a carousel was relocated to it’s new home beside the Virginia Air and Space Center in downtown Hampton when it was rescued from the Buckroe Beach Amusement Park.

It is one of only 200 antique carousels left in the United States! See the video below recorded when it was ready to open after relocation.

Take a ride on an antique carousel horse!

December 14th, 2008 | Category: Creative Escapes, Kid at Heart | |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Santa Arrives!

Santa has arrived and look at that belly!

We’ve been out and about attending the Christmas Parades in and around our area and have captured some fabulous photos of the balloons we saw this year!

The kids loved them; talk about kids eyes lighting up! They were as big as saucers when some of them came flying by.

Scroll down to see more balloons ringing in the holiday season.

December 14th, 2008 | Tags: balloons, Christmas, santa | Category: Holiday Happenings | |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Old Fasioned Doll

Kids of all ages helped bring the magic of Christmas alive to thousands of viewers in our local area who turned out for the holiday parades!

Putting on a show as they marched through the streets, the perfprmers were dressed as many different characters including an Old Fashioned Doll, Clara, The Snow Queen, The Mouse King, Spanish Dancers, an Arabian Dancer, Ice Skaters and a favorite with the crowds…. the Mice.

There were local celebrities too!

And free rides on the 1920 antique carousel with it’s original horses that was rescued when the Buckroe Beach Amusement Park was closed. See the video on it’s relocation and re-opening!

December 14th, 2008 | Tags: Carousel, Christmas Mice, Holiday Happenings, Magic of Christmas, Old Fashioned Doll | Category: Holiday Happenings, Old World Style | |  Email This Post | Comments (1)

Connor - Daddy's Lil Vampire

Halloween Photos:

Left: Connor: Daddy’s Lil Vampire

Below:

• Rotten Realty Graveyard
• McKayla: Evil Bride
• Organically Grown Pumpkins
• Neighborhood Ghost

Rotten Realty Graveyard

McKayla: Evil Bride

Organically Grown Pumpkins

Neighborhood Ghost

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November 5th, 2008 | Tags: photos | Category: Holiday Happenings | |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

We keep the flag flying!

We received a link by email to some children and high schoolers singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. We thought it was absolutely beautiful! It features four high school choirs and a little kids choir! A father of one of the performers recorded it during the event. This is a pro-military site with photos and videos that many might enjoy viewing. Be sure to listen to this talented group of kids singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

I Love This Kid also loves…

America’s Pampered Prince & Princess TM, home of America’s Great Babies!

America’s PP&P has kept the flag flying online since 1997 and supports higher education. America’s PP&P has awarded over $14,000 to some of America’s Great Babies as well as many beautiful trophies, banners, certificates and other gifts.

If you have a cute baby or toddler, age 0 - 26 months, be sure to visit America’s Pampered Prince & Princess National Baby Search and Contest.

November 3rd, 2008 | Tags: America's PP&P, American Flag, baby contest, kids choirs, Singing | Category: Angels Among Us | |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Girl Scouts are Angels!

There are Angels among us; sometimes they just come disguised as little stinkers. I would like to tell you about some children that are trying hard to be angels.

One of them is my daughter Chloe. Chloe is an only child and I wanted to introduce her to the world around her so she would realize how fortunate she is! We all have heard stories about how spoiled and selfish only children can be so I asked myself how I could accomplish my goals for Chloe. I decided Chloe and I would join a Daisy Girl Scout troop.

We are in our second year of Girl Scouts, as Brownies and I have become the troop leader. I couldn’t be prouder of this young bunch of girl’s ages 6-8 years old. They are working hard to be an example to the other children at their school. They are very compassionate and care about their classmates.

One day a classmate had been taunting Chloe and another child. Well, he got in trouble and had to sit down on the playground in “time out”. Chloe and her fellow Brownies were very upset and begged the teacher to let their classmate come out of “time out” because it made them sad for him to be in trouble. They kept telling the teacher “he was just playing, he didn’t mean it!”

This group of little angels complete four community service projects every year including collecting eye glasses for the Lions Club, participating in a fund-raiser creating Christmas Ornaments that are sold to benefit the local Children’s Hospital, visiting and delivering lap blankets to the elderly living in nursing homes and collecting books that are donated to children that don’t have access to books. I am very proud of these little angels for their hard work and unselfishness.

We all know children can be a little devilish growing up with all their antics but the next time you see what could be a little devil, take a second look. You might see a halo hovering tilted ever so slightly above those horns.

Article and photo submitted by: Denise Wilkerson, Troupe Leader & Chloe’s mother

Note from ILTK: Chloe, who also models and is available for print assignments and children’s runway, has been named I Love This Kid’s first ever Cover Kid - Click here to read more about Chloe, I Love This Kid COVER KID 2008! ILTK Cover Kid photo contest for children is produced and sponsored by ILoveThisKid.com and QuestModels.com

October 29th, 2008 | Tags: Angels Among Us, Brownies, Girl Scouts, photo contest | Category: Angels Among Us | |  Email This Post | Comments (1)

Strawberries and Orange Juice

After donning their jeans for the Denim and Dungarees Fashion Show supporting Lee National Denim Day and raising funds for the Women’s Cancer Programs of the EIF, our local teens and kids were up bright and early the next morning participating in the 41st annual Phoebus Days Parade. Promoting the theme “Eating Healthy”, they carried colorful over-sized fruits and vegetables along with other hand made signs.

Photos: © ILoveThisKid.com

October 28th, 2008 | Tags: eating healthy, Phoebus Days Parade | Category: Holiday Happenings, I Love This Kid News | |  Email This Post | Comments (1)