First birthdays are huge milestones! My favorite way to celebrate has to be, hands down, with cake! Not just eating it, of course, but also through a cake smash. It's quite usually, the first time a baby has ever touched, tasted or experienced cake, let alone anything sweet, and the reactions can be wide ranging from extreme delight to extreme disgust. We had both during Badr's session, it was actually quite hilarious! Badr wasn't too fond of the texture of the cream and kept trying to run away. It took a bit of coaxing to have him finally "smash" the cake but eventually he enjoyed it and there was no stopping him. Happy birthday little man! May you live a long and happy life. Ameen. 

Beach Family Photography Session in Dubai, UAE

 

I remember when I met Erica and Dan for this session, we talked a lot about our experiences as expats in Dubai. Seeing as I was raised in the United Arab Emirates, and spent most of my life here, I always love hearing about other people's experiences, and find that almost 90% of the time, people who move here, always find it really hard to leave once they've settled down. The beauty of living in the UAE is the safety, the convenience, and the fact that we get to raise our kids in a truly multicultural society, and have the rare ability to raise them to be really open and accepting. Lucky for Taylor, he gets to have such an incredible experience to look back on when he's older. Not only that, but it will be the place where he started one of the most exciting chapters of his life: becoming a big brother for the very first time. How incredibly exciting!