Happy Birthday to our Little Boy

Just a quick post to say Happy 1st Birthday from mommy and daddy to our little boy. Hard to believe it's been a year already but it has and it's been the best year of our lives so far by a land slide. Everyday is better than the last and we look at each day with excitement because you really never know what you he has in store for you until your laughing about it with friends or family afterwards.
Happy Birthday Alexander!
Love Mommy and Daddy

New Foods continued...

A few more images of Alexander enjoying some new foods. All of which are extremely messy of course.

Banana

Cherry Popsicle

Spaghetti

Peanut butter and Fluff sandwich.....his favorite so far....and of couse its the messiest. I think we have as much fun watching him eat them as he does eating them.

Trying new things......yum!

Lately Michele and I have been experimenting with Alexander and new foods. For all of you with children or at least access to them you know from experience that there aren't to many things more funny that a little one trying certain foods for the first time. So far, pork chops, pasta and chocolate cake were a hit. I think each time Alexander tries something new I'll try to post the pics. If the faces aren't funny enough the mess he makes usually is.

Slacker!!

I'm sure that is probably what most of you are thinking at this point after 2 whole months of NO updates! Ugghh!! I know it's horrible but truthfully I have very good reason. For the last 2 months I (josh) have been studying relentlessly for my Real Estate licensing exam. typically 2+ hours a night so that is pretty much where all my free time has gone so if anyone is looking to buy or sell or could just use some friendly advice, I'll be getting licensed very shortly.
So I know this blogging thing doesn't/shouldn't take that long to do if you keep it basic but when weeks go by as fast as they have been it's nothing to lose a whole month without a single update. For cripe sakes Alexander is already nearing 8 months old!! hard to believe I know.
Anyway.....so what's new with the little man you may ask. Well as of February 11th he became partially mobile. That's right.........

CRAWLING!!! OMG!!! All you parents out there, I'm sure can relate to how soon you realize you need to get your house baby-proofed ASAP once you little one(s) start to crawl. You put them down and then leave the room real quick and when you come back to where you left them they somehow managed to fall in vast facination with the most dangerous or unstable or most expensive and fragile item in the room and are B-lining towards it. Time to break out the baby gates!

So developmentally, Alexander is doing great and is learning new things a scary pace. He actually took a couple of unassisted steps last night from Michele to me and then back. Nothing to extraordinary but 2 or 3 good clean steps before toppling over. Then it hit me lit a brick to the head. OMG, he's moves quick enough on all four's nevermind walking or even running. Size wise not to sure how tall he is exactly but I think about 25" and weighs about 20lbs so to put that in perspective, Michele will be borrowing his sneakers in about 3 months or so. LOL.

Christmas Photo Contest

In case anyone didn't know, Alexander has been entered in a baby photo contest on americanbaby.com. If you're interested in voting for him just follow the link below. It's the same picture of him in the post below wearing the Santa hat. The last I looked he was ranked #25 out of 476 entries so every vote helps get him that much closer. Feel free to send someone the link if you think they may be interested in voting.

http://www.americanbaby.com/photocontest/vote.jhtml?entryId=1157300003

Thanks!

Couple of fun pics

Here are a couple of random shots taken recently.

Quick "down time" blog

Hi everyone. Hope all of you are enjoying the snow that we are currently receiving in CT. It's 6:30am and it's coming down quickly so I figured while I had some down time I get you all up to date on the Geragotelis family.
First of all, everyone is doing great. Xander is growing like crazy and really starting to develope into a little boy. I think he's currently about 26" long and in the vicinity 16.5-17lbs. In case you lost track, he just turned 5 months old. Michele actually thinks he might skip crawling and go right to walking which I didn't know babies could do. He really loves to walk and his balance is getting better and better. All he really needs is a couple of fingers to hold onto for ballance and he's off and walking. When we put him down on the floor on his back all he really wants to do is roll over. So he's doesn't seem to have much interest in crawling so maybe Michele is right.
As far as Michele and I go, I've been working late every night remodeling the kitchen which is going quite well actually. New drywall, new flooring, new cabinets and countertops. Even new outlets. So with that said I must confess that I have done NO Christmas shopping.....yet. We don't even have a tree yet....gasp......Anyway, I took some pictures of the kitchen that I'll post when I'm done. Of course we have new pictures of Xander too that I'll post when I get a second to breathe and have my camera handy.
Until next time, stay safe and if your looking for a good sledding hill with a stone wall obstacle course, drop by our house. lol

"Xander G: Future Red Sox GM?"

In case any of you didn't get to see it yet, here is the link to Xander on the Red Sox merchandise page, Born Into it. Just scroll down a little until you see the Nov 2 pic of the little boy surrounded by Red Sox logos.

http://www.bornintoit.com/

Poor little man :(

So our little man is sick. Poor little guy has a cold and an on-again off-again fever. His temp has been as high as 101 and he is super congested and has an occasional cough with a side of the squirts. So sad really. I wish I could teach him to blow his nose to help him breathe but instead we are stuck with suctioning out the boogs. Needless to say he's super miserable. Hopefully it's over with very soon for his sake so he can get some good rest.

On another note. Here are a couple of more pics of him not sick.

His first pics with Great Grampy

New professional photos

Hey everyone. Most of you probably don't know this but since Xander was born Michele and I have been getting his pics done professionally each month. It's really cool because you get to see the incredible changes he's going through by making a timeline of the really cool poses each month. Last month we didn't post the ones we got done but here are the ones we just got done saturday the 22nd for his 3rd month. Now it's a little confusing because we get them done at the end of the month so this is his 3rd sitting but he's actually almost 4 months old (November 5th) if anyone is trying to keep track. Anyway, here they are. Hot off the press. I hope you all enjoy them as much as we are.

Big Ole' smile

Here are just a couple of pics Xander having a giggle fest with mommy. It's so funny how fast his expressions can change from a straight face to a full out smile as seen here.
I also added a pic of Xander feeding himself to show people how well he is doing. It's a little something I've been working on with him. Basically I've been teaching him to hold his bottle while he eats. He can do it on his own but only if he is fully awake since it really requires him to concetrate to keep the bottle in his mouth since his hand-eye coordination isn't completely matured since he isn't even 3 months yet. There's no trick photography here or strings attached. He's actually holding the bottle up all by himself. I'm such a proud daddy :)

Just something quick

So I was just updating myself on my very dear friend Kari's site and so I decided to see what is new on my site. Well I was realizing that most of the pictures of my son and this women were not of me. I was thinking that I should make time to take pics of me and him. Don't get me wrong I don't mind him having pics taken with his auntie Kari. I just realized that I don't have that many of me and him that's all. You don't realize things like that until you actually see it. So that is my plan.
Also for those looking on the site I hope you all know that there are new pics on the slide show that Joshua put up there. So check them out.
So that's all for know hope to write tomorrow.........

It's been an icky week

Well this week marks the first week our household has had a common cold. Michele got it first about 2 weeks ago and then after about a week or so Xander and I got it at the same time. Sniffles, coughing and just generally mild misery being congested all the time. Thankfully everyone is doing much better now and no one really got too sick. On another note, Xander is growing fast as can be and doing new things each week and on some occasions, each day. He now eats cereal at night and is really starting to learn how to use his hands to grab things that he wants to stuff in his mouth. He's even trying to suck his thumb every chance he gets but we're doing the most we can to keep that from happening. I hear that's a heck of a habit to brake a kid out of. Anyway, everyone enjoy the rest of your weekend and hopfully we'll be posting again real soon................hopefully :)

Is it Friday yet

What a day I have had. Does anyone feel like you are just never going to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Well that's how I feel. Some times I feel like I am chasing my tail when it comes to things. But let me start over!! So last night went really good Xander only really was fed once during the night. I fed him at about 9:45 and then I got up and fed him at 2:30 or so then he started to make noise about 4:30 to 4:45am but I just picked him up and took him to bed and we got up at 6:00am to eat. So really I can't complain about that. But I do have to say I can't wait until that night he sleeps though the night. I am sure I won't. I can't stand that I wake up every time he makes a noise. I sit up and check to make sure there is nothing wrong. I wish I could just let it be but I worry I guess. Oh well that's just the way things are.
This morning it was so funny he was awake until we left to go to Amber's ( Daycare). But when I was getting in the shower and getting dressed he kept doing this side smile for no reason. I would just look at him and he would be looking at me and doing it. It was so cute.
On a different note I feel really bad because Josh thinks that I am telling him he is doing something wrong when it comes to feeding Xander. But that's no the thing its just so weird that the only time that he is eating more then 2 oz is when he is just home with Josh. I don't understand why that happens but I feel bad when I tell Josh that maybe you should try something different besides feeding him when he cries. I am just trying to help. Oh what am I to do. LOL LOL I love you honey!!!:)
I have been so busy with everything I just wanted to say thank you so much to my very dear friends Kari and Ian for watching Xander over night last sat night. You guys are awesome and the good thing is that you still want to have a baby even after you watched him. lol. THATS GREAT!! Until tomorrow

Mom's back to work

So today marks my 3rd day back to work. I have to say when it comes to work it feels like I never left. But when I am at work it feels like I am missing something. I know what that is but it feels so good to go home at the end of the day knowing that when I walk in the door I have him sitting there waiting for me with his daddy. All I can say is it gives me chills even thinking about it. Being a stay home mom I wouldn't know what that feeling would be like. But I wouldn't miss nothing if I was. I do have to say sense I been at work I haven't been able to really sit down and spend time with him. In the morning I have to get ready for work well I guess feeding him is spending time with him. But when I get home I have something going on everyone's so far and then making dinner and next thing I know its 9:00 and its time for bath and bottle and off we go to bed.
People have asked me how I feel having him in daycare and I tell everyone that its good. Of course I would love to be home with him so I can see everything that he does for the first time but at the same time its good for him to be around other kids and learn from them. But the day care that he goes to his great she is layed back and she is great with kids and the kids love her. She is the type of person that if he did anything new that she would tell us right away. Because she gets exited just like we do its great.
So I am going to try to write everyday to give everyone updates on how he is and how things are going with mom and dad. Kind of a day by day thing. Of course I am going to try. So until tomorrow!!! :)

Hanging Out

So Michele and I tried Xander out in his JumpaRoo yesterday and we thought we'd share some of the pics from that experience. Don't worry he was well supervised and had a towel in there with him to help him fill the sling to keep his body still. It's kind of hard to tell from the pics but the obvious problem was he just isn't heavy enough yet and his little legs aren't long enough so his feet were about 4 inches from touching the ground. Needless to say that I don't think he's ready yet but we thought we'd give it a shot anyway and share the pics that has us rolling with laughter

Bi-monthly update

This past month has been like working for a traveling circus or as close to it as I can imagine anyway. Michele and I closed on our new house a couple of weeks ago so we got to move for the 2nd time in 3 months and doing that with an infant wasn't easy. I just want to send special thanks to those who helped out - Kari, Ian, Bee, Justin, Brooks, Little CC, Deb, Earl and couple I'm sure I might of missed.....even if you just baby sat for Xander it made a world of difference. Thanks a bunch!

So living in a house again has been great. Even though we only stayed in an apartment for a couple of months it was long enough. It's nice to have a HOME again.

Anyway, about the little man. Xander has been doing great. Tomorrow he'll be 6 weeks already and I'm still amazed by how fast his looks change. I wish I had more time to post pics but it's been tough as of late but between Michele and I we will try to keep them up to date.
Thanks for checking in and feel free to say hi in the "comments" section.

Xander Update

So Xander is now 19 days old already and progressing superbly. His first pediatrician visit went great. His birth weight was 6lbs 8oz. but when we left the hospital he was down to 6lbs 2oz and by the time of his first doctors visit a week later he was up to 6lbs 14oz and had grown 3/4". So his weight gain has been great. The doctor was very impressed with his first week. I can't wait until our next visit to see how he's progressing. I can tell you this, I am totally amazed on how fast the days go by. I'm sure all you parents out there can attest to that. Anyway, back to what everyone wants more of.........baby pics!!! By the way, he had his first sitting with a professional photographer, see if you can figure out which ones she took....lol