baby elyas
March 16, 2010 | Filed Under baby | 2 Comments
elyas’ mom was the first of all my childhood friends still living close to me to start having kids, seven years ago; as of march 2, she is now the mother of three beautiful, blessed and happy boys, mashallah. elyas was a bit of a surprise – up until delivery, all sonograms and testing had led them to believe they were having a girl! i think elyas just wanted to keep his parents guessing :)
so i got to visit my friend’s house when he was just four days old, and was amazed to see how alert he already was. most of all, though, i adored how much he smiled in his sleep! in islamic tradition, infants smiling in their sleep indicate the presence of angels – babies, after all, are closer to God than the rest of us! can’t wait to visit elyas again, with or without camera :)
maryam: four months old!
January 7, 2010 | Filed Under baby, friends | 2 Comments
i haven’t had a chance to blog about baby maryam in a while, but her monthly portrait sessions are going great and as you can see she’s QUITE the happy camper for the most part! it’s so exciting to watch her grow like this, and such an honor to be the one to capture the first year of her life this way. all the smiles you see here are thanks to grandma, who managed to get some fantastic giggles out of maryam while i was snapping away! towards the end of the session, though, she discovered her lower lip was more fun to suck on than to smile with :) maryam, auntie ayesha loves you lots!
children, everywhere…
December 21, 2009 | Filed Under baby, family photos | Leave a Comment
in the first part of december, my house was a wilderness of children… okay maybe just three, and maybe it’s a bit of a wilderness even with my one kid! but i spent a couple of weeks babysitting my one-year-old niece, and also had a wonderful visit from my beloved cousin, who used to live close by when we had our babies within five hours of each other, but has long since moved plane-flight distance away. it was the first time our kids had been together since they were one and a half, and booooy did they keep us on our toes! one night we managed to visit my brother, too, and so had all three cousins together – (this was only two days before the newest cousin – see the post below – made her appearance!) – and so of course i took pictures!
this is just a random collection i have been wanting to share, of my niece with possibly the most adorable hair ever seen on a baby, of my son playing in the season’s first snow (early december) and of my nephew and my cousin’s daughter, all posing together for us. if you like kids… enjoy! :)
maryam: two months old!
October 29, 2009 | Filed Under baby, portraits | 1 Comment
wow… i think maryam is actually almost three months old at this point! it’s taken me a while to get these pics up; my family visited canada last week (niagara falls and toronto), and i haven’t even been through those pics yet!
but i did want to share these few at least! maryam grows more adorable each time, mashallah, and i absolutely loved the green shalwar kameez that her grandmother made for her this time! any smiles you see in these pictures (we had to work hard on them!) are mainly the result of her two uncles telling her crazy stories and trying to make her laugh :) i can’t wait for the next session!
