| | True, "emerges" may be a strange word to use, but it seems to me, now, the appropriate one. I say that because I'm fixated with the image of Shawn, during the c-section, looking over the curtain covering my stomach to see Siri's head, rising out. Startled, eyes squished tight, head shaking back and forth, covered in new baby goo, Siri emerged from my womb to not only the sight of doctors, a green curtain, and sterile instruments, but also to her father's face. For this, I, a mother who is unable to have children naturally, will ever be thankful.
Since Friday, July 18th, 2008, Siri has also emerged from the recovery room, her fashionable hospital-inspired t-shirt, and, of course, the hospital itself. We made it home on Sunday, the 20th, and took a little nap before Bibbits and Poppy brought big sister Hina back to the Forest Avenue house. Hina is a very concerned sibling, always asking Siri, "What's wrong, baby?" when she cries, and eagerly jumping to turn on her light when it's time for a diaper change. Now if we could just transfer that eagerness to potty training...but that's for another blog.
We hope you are equally eager now, as you view some of the pictures we have taken of our new daughter, Siri Mae. Her first name is, to us, "a burst of new life," just as it was to Andrew Wyeth when he painted a girl named Siri after two of his very dear friends had died. Mae was my great-grandmother's middle name, as well as my grandmother's middle name (I think--the story is a foggy one). We like how the two names sound together, and Hina also has a family name (Davis--from Shawn's side) as her middle name, so the two sisters complement one another in this sense. (There are more pics in the Siri Mae album on this site and on our Facebook, if you are connected there, in the "new baby" album.)
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