I am so proud to announce the birth of my little boy, David (“beloved”)  Rocco (“rest” in Italian) Tosti.  He was born at 2:42am Sunday August 24th, 2008 at Mission Hospital.  Ya he’s beautiful, dangerous, gentle, loving, kind, pure genius, listens to Bob Dylan, Michael Phelps like, and…what?!! There’s a few things on this planet that you can be prideful about, and a daughter or a son is one of those, and I’m taking it! As I mentioned in my last post, I finished Kathy & Jason’s wedding a bit early and headed to the hospital.  Just less than 2 hours later, he showed up.  I’ve made it a mission to now photograph these moments in other people’s lives.  Something I’ve wanted to do over the last few years.  If anyone you know about to give birth, is looking for some images like these, of their new little one, I would be honored.

 Rocco, may you always know how loved you are, how valuable you are, how incredibly unique you are, and may you use that knowledge to give, love, and be grace to everyone you meet on this planet.  i love you son. 

Sometimes I think maybe this should be the “Sophia blog” instead of the “tosti studios” blog.  It’s hard to take a bad photo of her, she’s so beautiful and loves the camera, well I like to think that she loves the guy behind the camera, her “dada.”  There are certain times when I take a photo of her, and I can’t believe how connected I am to it.  I can’t stop staring at this one.  The light in her eyes, her sweet spirit shows right through, and there is a little  bit of that “it’s mine”  in there too.

Ok, this is sappy and I like it.  I’ll go now and let you look at the photo without anymore commentary.  Thanks for stoppin by the “Sophia is the most beautiful girl in the world, blog.”