KaBOOM! is a national non-profit that wants to promote the value of unstructured play in the lives of our children. Far too often the play spaces in our neighborhoods are in disrepair - or too far away from where children live. Sadly, parents are choosing to keep their children at home for many different reasons, which often leads to the physical danger of childhood obesity - or they overcompensate by loading their kids up with team sports, which allows for the mental and emotional deprivation of the lack of use of imagination through unstructured play. KaBOOM! invites you to plan Play Days for the children in your family, building, or neighborhood -- and to that end will provide you with a FREE Play Day Kit to help you get the ball rolling (or frisbee flying!).
Another great thing about the event was that Role Mommy arranged for the nation's leading child celebrity photographer, Jade Albert, to take photos of us with our little ones! What a treat! For those of you who know my baby boy, he is a very serious little dude who doesn't do much smiling for the camera. Poor, wonderful Jade had to take way more photos of us than she needed to take of the other families just to capture a smile or two, but what we ended up with was simply magical. Everyone there said the photo looked like it belonged on a magazine cover. What do you think?
Photo credit: Jade Albert (www.jadealbert.com)
Theo also had his first cameo appearance on Blog Talk Radio, which was also video-taped. You can see us here starting at 2 minutes, 9 seconds:
Role Mommy Presents a Family Play Day with Kool-Aid & KaBOOM! from Beth Feldman on Vimeo.
Couldn't you just eat him up???Thanks, Beth -- this was truly a fun day for both Theo and me, and it not only provided us with a beautiful photo that I fully intend to use for my upcoming holiday cards :-) -- but it also exposed us to KaBOOM! and their initiative to bring back the joy and simplicity of childhood to our kids through the simple tool of good ol' fashioned play.
7 comments:
All I can say is WOW! Gorgeous photo of BOTH Mommy and Theo! By the way what did Theo wind up singing in the short video posted?
LRR
The photo of you and your son is awesome, it is very natural, I can totally see it as a "Parenting" cover or something like that. Just stopping by from SITS to say hey, hope you have a great week!
T.
The photo is amazing and I loved getting to see you and Theo on-camera. You are both beautiful.
AMAZING picture! And definitely magazine cover-worthy.
It was so great meeting you at the KaBOOM! event. And that shot of you and your "serious little man" was picture perfect!
Cheers- Bethe
@balmeras
This is a great idea. My daughter is too young for this now, but when shes older I def. want her being a free and creative as possible. Kids have a beautiful energy. never want to stifle it. You and your son look GREAT!
I LOVE that picture of the two of you!!!! You have the best hair, Issa!! Seriously, and so does Theo! :) You guys are so cute.
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