ayyam-i-ha 2009

aliyah celebrated ayyam-i-ha this year at a party for the bwc families where she ate pizza, played with balloons, and had her nails painted for the first time.

aliyah and U2

aliyah likes many different types of music and sometimes loves a song after only hearing it once or twice. today, while listening to the new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon, aliyah stopped her conversation with enna-marie in the back seat of the car and said, "mommy, i like this music." that made mommy smile. :)



















aliyah also has a couple of faves from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb:
#5 (city of blinding lights; she calls the songs by their track numbers) which she always reminds me that she loved when she was a baby (i told her she used to sing along with the bells she was little) and
#1 (vertigo) which she thinks is just fun.

playing with enna-marie

aliyah and enna-marie were playing with the kitchen in aliyah's room and enna said, "i'll be auntie negeen..." aliyah said, "i'll be auntie menchie and you be papa maarten." then aliyah came out of her room to inform me, "you are enna-marie."

before i could get my camera to shoot them at the kitchen, they had moved to a doctor's office where aliyah was checking aliyah's vitals.

good times.