Like you, I am not a huge fan of just kids (in spite of having and having raised three!) in photography... perhaps because people tend to overdo the "cute factor" to the Nth degree.

Kids and their pets? That's different-- you can get some really awesome spontaneous moments there... like we see in quite a few of these shots. Particularly love the first one and the next-to last; perhaps because we have always had kids-and-cats in the house.