Ode to Siri

Siri is the happiest baby I've ever met. She's so sweet tempered and it takes so much to get her really worked up. She is so fun and so smart. She looks at us like she understands what's going on and will sit while I read to her for long periods of time. I thought I'd make a list of things she loves and things she does now that she's turned 1.

Loves

1. Heads!! (Nothing cheers this girl up more than a good head, it's a little weird)
2. Yogurt
3. Ice cream
4. Bath time
5. Murphy (Our dog)
6. Zeke (They're best friends and Zeke even knows about her love of heads. As soon as we walk in he'll sit down and lay his head in her lap so she can play with it and hug it. Sooooo cute!)
7. Music
8. Straws
9. Computers
10. Phones (She's ruined mine with her slobber)
11. Dad
12. Violet (Her stuffed dog)
13. Playing "this little pig"
    

Milestones

1. Crawling! (As of a week ago, she's a late bloomer)
2. Says Dad
3. Says Mom
4. Says "woof" when she hears dogs bark
5. Sings along with others
6. Pulls herself up on furniture
7. Walks along furniture
8. Says "All Done"
9. Will bonk heads when we say "bonks"
10. Deems to place her forehead on our lips when we say "kisses"
11. Pretend drinks out of any cup she can get her hands on
12. Gives fives
13. Mimics sounds we make (If I squeal she totally does it back)
14. Jabbers like she's really talking
15. Pats our backs when she's giving hugs
16. Plays with her hair when she's tired or when she's eating
17. Rubs her eyes when she's tired
18. Jumps when we say "bounce"
19. Shakes her head "no"
20. Dances when music comes on
21. Claps
22. Plays peek-a-boo
    

Things I love that Siri does

1. Her laugh (It's a little raspy, she throws her head back and laughs super hard. So fun!)
2. When she gets excited (She laughs and kicks her legs and gets all jittery)
3. Her tongue (She licks EVERYTHING! It's a fight every time we go to the grocery store to keep her tongue off of the cart)
4. When she attacks heads
5. When she gets intense (Her whole head shakes. It's a little scary, just ask Grandpa T.)
6. Pretty much everything this girl does, I'm enamored.

10-12-2010

I'd stopped working a couple weeks prior because I started dilating at 32 weeks and was so worried about going into labor early. (We'd moved a month earlier and I'm convinced all of the heavy lifting and physical activity is what prompted my body into going into labor early.) I had a doctor's visit that day and when they checked me I was dilated to a 5. While the doctor was looking things over he said, "Oops, I may have just pushed you to a 6." I'd been trying not to go into labor so I wasn't super pleased.

After the appointment I went home and got in the bath to let my body relax. I went upstairs and laid down on the bed with Jay to watch some TV and my body started to contract. The contractions were coming fast and were really intense, but I still had no idea if I was in labor or not. It's funny because I'd always heard that you'd know if it was the real deal, labor contractions are different. Well, that's not how it was for me. I told Jay that maybe we better go to the hospital so he got ready to go, but when the contraction stopped I decided I was just being a pansy and these must just be braxton hicks. I started contracting again and told Jay if we didn't get to the hospital I was going to have this baby right on our floor.

At this point I'd been contracting for all of 5 minutes and must not have seemed sure myself, no wonder Jay thought I was faking. I threw some things into a bag but Jay told me not to bring it, they were just going to send us home anyway. Ha! Little did he know. We got out to the truck and I realized we'd forgotten to grab our camera, the one we bought just for this. I reminded Jay and again he told me we didn't need it, we'd grab it when I was really in labor. (I'm never going to let him live that down!)

When we got to the hospital he dropped me off up front and went and parked the truck. I walked through the front doors and told the security guard, "I think I'm in labor." At this point I could barely walk, I felt like her head was coming out. He jumped up and grabbed a wheel chair and took me up to labor and delivery. By the time Jay got up to the room I'd gotten settled in a room and had a gown on, they'd checked me and I was dilated to a seven. I told them that I wasn't sure I was in labor, or that I was ready to be in labor and maybe they should just stop it. The nurse laughed straight in my face (rude!) and told me at this point there was nothing they could do and I was having this baby tonight.

They asked if I wanted an epidural and I told them of course! I do not handle pain well and I think modern medicine was invented for a reason. There's a reason why we don't have home births anymore and why we use epidurals... because we can! Yay for modern medicine! That anesthesiologist took his sweet, sweet time. Okay, so it was only 15 minutes but when you have a 40 minute labor and part of that is spent getting to the hospital, 15 minutes is just way too long. I was yelling at nurses and cursing the anesthesiologist. Jay was telling me to calm down (he'd never seen me like that before), but I wasn't having any of it. I wanted drugs! By the time they got the needle in my back, it was too late. I was ready to push. This girl came SAILING out. She was a little 6 pounder, and after 2 pushes there was no stopping her. Jay had just called to let our parents know I was in labor and had to call them right back to let them know I had her.

At 10:45 we welcomed Siri Grace Jarmon into our lives. 6 lbs 2 oz of perfection! She is the joy of our lives and I can't imagine our lives without her. Happy day of Birth to our Siri-bo-biri!

Siri's first birthday!

Jay will be the first to tell you that I get overly excited, about everything. I have been so excited for Siri's birthday for months and I've been planning for at least a month. Jay had school and work today but we tried to set aside some time in between to make this day special. We are having a little birthday party with our families on Saturday but still wanted to make today feel like it was her birthday. We got a cute cupcake at the store and decided to let her go nuts.

I got Siri a cute little birthday outfit, and she looked so grown up. I was kind of wishing they had the same cardigan for me.

Daddy had to help Siri blow the candle out.

Siri really wasn't sure about the cupcake and absolutely refused to get her hands in it. The icing on her face on the pictures was actually put there by Jay, not Siri, and the she waited to be fed, she wouldn't do it herself. All in all, it was a really fun day. We're so lucky to have this little girl! She has changed our lives and we love her to pieces!

Stand back, I'm a professional.

Okay, I realize that this may be picture overload. But, seeing as how I had over 300 pictures to choose from I feel like I showed great restraint. We bought this awesome camera over a year ago and have yet to really figure out how to use it. Teresa and Kris are photography masters and were nice enough to help me out. We were going to get them professionally done but they wanted to charge $300. No thanks to that! So, enjoy. This is the first post of birthday pictures and none of these are photo-shopped. I will probably post again with some tweaked photos. Then again, I've been telling myself I need to blog for months. I guess what I'm saying is... don't hold your breath.

You definitely don't have to look at all the photos, but you should still probably leave a comment about how cute she is. I'm one of those moms. I am secretly hoping that every person I talk to will ask to see photos so I can show her off. Here's hoping!