The images below are all of my daughter Leena Amani Sheikh.
What is she doing? There’s a video. Click over and you’ll see it – I promise it’s worth a giggle or two.
My kids’ cover version of Stitches by Shawn Mendes
Here’s my kids’ first YouTube video and their cover version of a song called ‘Stitches’ by some kid called Shawn Mendes who is actually old enough to be driving a Camaro around, but doesn’t appear able to walk very far in a straight line without falling over
Happy birthday little Leena-pie!
In 1999 my wife was expecting our first child, and I had a name ready and waiting: ‘Leena’. It means ‘tender’ and also ‘devoted one’. Of course fate likes to have a bit of a laugh with you, and with the arrival of the new millennium came a surprise. Out popped a boy, not a girl. I didn’t have a boy name ready. So my sister named him Junaid.
