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baby elyas

beautyis — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:08:22 +0000

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!

beautyis — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:45:50 +0000

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…

beautyis — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:45:22 +0000

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!

beautyis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:26:18 +0000

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!

baby teaser

beautyis — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:01:25 +0000

i have a bit of a backlog and am still working on the last wedding i shot, but i did take maryam’s two-month-old baby pics yesterday and wanted to share at least one favorite i picked out to play with when i should have been doing something else!! she is sooooooooo cute, mashallah! and we had a little conversation this time, yes we did
much more to come…

maryam: one month old

beautyis — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:42:50 +0000

when sara contacted me about taking maryam’s one-month-old pictures, i couldn’t believe it had already been a month since i shot her aqeeqa! it was so amazing to see how much she had changed already! she started off with plenty of smiles and she really seemed to like the camera… at first, at least. we had a great time, but we wore her out – as you’ll see at the bottom of the post. i had forgotten how expressive and curious even such young babies can be – and i finally got to hold her this time! i’m so excited to be able to not only see, but to capture the changes as maryam goes through the incredible journey of a baby’s first year of life. plus, i get to hang out with her mom at least once a month!
since we did this shoot at my house, because i’m currently carless, we did have to negotiate around my son and his toys; in the end i tried to have musa lie down for a few portraits too – so… i’m just gonna throw a couple of those in at the bottom, too
here she is: