Here he is! This is him at about 3 minutes old. The nurse popped off a couple pics, handed me back my camera, I took this one picture, and the battery abruptly died. It's rechargable, and now I know that when you see the battery indicator at all, even looking two-thirds full, it's time to plug it in. I bother with these details because it wasn't so bad -- I got a lot of pix right there using my phone, but the wifi at the hospital doesn't seem to access my email so I can't post those yet.
I cut the cord in the brief window after the camera conked out and I fished my phone from beneath my clean suit. The doc who handed me the scissors was dismayed at this lost moment, but frankly I was "eww, no." Fortunately Julie concurred.
He's very alert and spends a lot of time looking at us as if he's demanding an explanation. There's a picture on my phone that really shows this, but this one here is the best one I've got of his open eyes with my camera so far. And yes, that's a side boob shot of Julie's hoo-hoo. The kid is a freakin' champ at nursing. Seriously, once we got him in position he latched on in like twenty seconds. Kind of like "sorry for that unprecedented surprise today, here's a breast the size of your head as compensation."
This is my favorite pic so far. I got back from dropping Julie's mom at our house at about half past midnight. He spent most of the next three hours awake, nursing, looking around, debuting a monster poop and airing his opinion on the whole situation. When he's not crying he makes these delightful little coos and chirps. I keep telling him it's cool, that the world is beautiful. I think he'll come around. Jules and Zack are both asleep now; I really should follow suit but I have no idea if I'll be able to. I'm so proud of Julie and it warms my heart to hear her sleepy breathing. Zack is swaddled tightly, every once in a while he'll jerk his little legs up as if spring-loaded. He's pretty awesome.
Check out the stats:
Born June 10th, 2008 at 6:47 PST
9 pounds, 4 ounces
21 1/4 inches long
Head circumference: 14 3/4 inches. Yowza.
More pics later. Thanks, everybody.
14 comments:
He's perfect, beautiful, wonderful!! Love the pics, and your sentiments - as always - so eloquently put.
Sending all my love to you three.
I was so busy updating the blog I didn't notice you posted, Octo, if I had known I wouldn't have posted anything today - now your big news is being smothered by geek news!
Awesome post and wonderful pictures! Isn't it like 4:45am right now? Zack looks perfect and Julie looks tired - nice work guys!
Octo, are you going to catch The Hulk this weekend? juuuuuuuuust kidding =)
Fantastic recap! He looks awesomely big and like he could already do something cool with Legos. Can't wait to meet him in a month. Congrats to both of you guys, really.
this is all such awesome news. thanks for posting the pics so quickly. zack sounds like a wonderful kid right out of the gate. he looks way perkier and happier and smarter than most newborns, and needless to say gorgeous. even the pooping sounds precocious. we can expect him to post on the blog in what, a couple of years? :)
That's funny, AC, Ben is dying for a Horrorthon tee-shirt ever since he saw mine. He wants to get one so he can wear it to school. I was like, "Uh, no Ben, you're not getting a Horrorthon tee-shirt."
Whirlygirl sends her congrats! She is not able to access her email at work so she wanted me to express this =)
I think of E.T. every time I see that picture of Octo in the scrubs. I kept my scrubs, by the way, they're actually quite comfortable.
Well, I picked the perfect day to have my first visit to Horrorthon! Jeff, congratulations - he's beautiful! You will just be the BEST dad! I'll come back after you've gotten some sleep.
-From Carolyn. Jules friend. The other Jules. You know, your sister Julie's friend Carolyn from childhood. Geez, that is too hard to explain.
Holy shit, man! Amazing, just amazing.
Congratulations!
Other friends of mine have had kids but I've always gotten a blasé summary much later; never the blow-by-blow in this excellent fashion.
(Apologies for using "blow-by-blow," which seems wrong somehow, but I can't think of another colloquialism fast enough and I want to post this. The "details"? The "information"? The "nitty-gritty"? Ugh. Anyway congratulations!)
Just sitting here reading with a big smile on my face. As good as it is now, it just keeps getting better man...he's great looking!
He's a beautiful baby ! (makes me wanna have lots of my own)
God Bless him for his cute head. Its just the signs of a boy genius :)
He's adorable! Congratulations!
thank god we don't have to pretend we think he's cute. with all the talk of cranial-gigantism, i thought i was going to have to resort to, "oh, what cute fingers," as a compliment.
on behalf of the bay area contingent that doesn't include mr. pants who can speak for himelf i say, "ohbeautibabifulyadojusrlovabzatlovckalYAlewhenY!ecanhweivismit?" sorry, everyone's talking at once.
all my love to father, mother and child.
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