The Beginning of Wednesday: Wednesday, Oui? Toby Toby Toby!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wednesday, Oui? Toby Toby Toby!

I am so in love.
Painfully, desperately, pathetically in love.

I love being a Mother. I love my husband 10 million times more than I did one week ago. I love my son so much that I won't even try to put meaningless little words to this well of feeling inside my heart.
I have the best, cutest and sweetest baby ever.

Toby's original due date was today. I was induced one week early. I am so glad I got him a week early. I will post his birth story at some point in the near future but, for today, I just want to share some pictures of our son.

Some facts/stats:

Tobias "Toby" Herbert Molloy came into this world after 8 hours and 24 minutes of labor.
He was born at 3:54 PM 5/23/12.
He was 6.4lbs and 19.5 inches long.
He cried immediately.
Since we arrived home from the hospital he has had 31 diaper changes.
He lost a few ounces, his current weight is around 5 lbs 13 oz. (He is tiny!)
He's beginning to focus on objects a bit better.
We feed him every three hours so, we sleep in 2 hour intervals.
He barely cries (fingers crossed).
Everyone who has met him thinks he's gorgeous. We, of course, agree.
I NEVER thought I was capable of such love.
My husband is the BEST father. Aaron is beyond attentive to me and Toby.
Toby is doing a great job nursing but, unfortunately, I'm not producing enough milk yet, so we're supplementing with formula.
Aaron read him his first book, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.
Mama has lost 16 pounds and I am diabetes free! The first sweet thing I ate was a chocolate chip whoopie pie (thank you McPepe!!) It was delicious.

That's all for now... Mama duties call. But, I'll leave you with pictures of this intoxicating newborn.

More to come but, is he not delicious? I am so in love. Oui?

5 comments:

Amy said...: I am so happy for you guys ... He's perfect; May 30, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Stephani said...: Wow Wow Wow whan a dream he is!! I love the pictures, but the last one made me laugh so hard. I love the puppy eye ball at the bottom and it looks as if the cat is nursing Aarons chin.... So funny!! You are so lucky to have such a helpful Husband! Your a great Momma!; May 30, 2012 at 3:11 PM
McPepe said...: Nana and McPepe are exstatic. He is freaking adorable. When you meet him you will understand why.
Jessi and Aaron, you have amazed us with your attachment to him and your love for him. You are great parents. You are blessed by this child. Again HE IS FREAKING ADORABLE. Picture 3 is the best. But I relived pic 4 today. Toby in one arm and Miss Shredder on my lap but I had Master Manny tugging at my leg. Great house to be in right now. Enjoy every minute; May 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM
McPepe said...: Nana and McPepe are exstatic. He is freaking adorable. When you meet him you will understand why.
Jessi and Aaron, you have amazed us with your attachment to him and your love for him. You are great parents. You are blessed by this child. Again HE IS FREAKING ADORABLE. Picture 3 is the best. But I relived pic 4 today. Toby in one arm and Miss Shredder on my lap but I had Master Manny tugging at my leg. Great house to be in right now. Enjoy every minute; May 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM
Anonymous said...: I keep calling this up on my computer at work from time to time. I cant stop peeking at that picture of his eyes opened. He is one adorable kidoo!; May 31, 2012 at 12:19 PM

Quotes that define my life:

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -- Rudyard Kipling
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." -- E. Lutzer
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.” -- Lord Byron
"There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help." -- Mr. Rogers
"If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." -- Persian Proverb
"Real peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mountains we climb

+ Currently: Life
+ Magalloway Mountain: Pittsburg, NH: 3,350 ft. Fire tower @ summit
+ Uncanoonuc Mountains: Goffstown, NH; Elevation: North Peak 1,324 ft. South Peak, 1,321 ft. *Indian Translation: "woman lying down" or "breasts"*
+ Mt. Major: Alton Bay, NH: Approx 4 mi. round trip; 1,100 ft. @ summit.
+ Monument Mt., Berkshire Area, MA: Approx 3 mi. round trip; *Beautiful waterfall* 1,735 ft @ summit.
+ Welch-Dickey- Loop Trail, Waterville Valley Area: 4.4 mi. round trip; 2,605 ft. @ Welch summit, 2,734 ft. @ Dickey summit.
+ Mt. Kearsarge- Barlow Trail, Winslow State Park, Wilmot: 2.8 mi. round trip; 2,937 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Monadnock- White Dot Trail, Jaffrey: 4.2 mi. round trip, 3,165 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Layafette- Old Bridle Path, Franconia Notch State Park: 8 mi. round trip, 5,260 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Cardigan- East Side Loop, Alexandria: 5.3 mi. round trip, 3,121 ft @ summit. * some of the mountain was left bare from a fire in 1855
+ Mt. Morgan & Mt. Percival- Squaw Mountains, Holderness & Center Sandwich: 5.1 mi. round trip; 2,220 & 2,212 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Osceola- White Mountain National Forest: 6.4 mi. round trip, 4,340 ft. @ summit

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