15 year old

Our son is a man already, he asked us for a shaving machine some weeks ago, he has hair in his legs and some hair in his stomach. He shaved his mostache and beard for the first time, he is a man already. The psychologist told us that our son was in the conventional morality stage, you know when teenagers obey just to gain social approval. We noted this because sometimes he does things that we tell him just to go out on the weekend and be aproved by his peers. He got accepted on the boarding school and he is leaving in a couple of months. Time went by too fast, it is a sad moment we don't want him to leave but that is what he wants. We wish him the best, because we love him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg's_stages_of_moral_development

14 years old

We are very freaked out. Our son's voice started cracking a lot and we went to a doctor and he told us that it was very normal in a teenager so we calmed down. After some months of a cracking voice his voice got deep. He now talks like a man. Time flew by, I feel like it was yesterday that we were teaching him how to talk. Our son had his first wet dream some weeks ago, it was very awkward when he told us, he was very very ashamed to tell us what happened but he finally told us and we explained him what happened. He will be leaving to a boarding school probably.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/growing/talk_about_puberty.html

13 years old

Our son is oficially in the adolesence, you know the period in a person's life when the person changes from a child to start turning into an adult. Puberty is starting to come in play with our son, puberty is the sexual maturation in a person, person becomes capable of reproducing. We will have to talk to him and explain him all of these things and tell him that he shouldn't be scared of some things that will happen in his body. We are doing the correct things with our son and we are glad of the things we do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty

12 years old

We can't believe it 12 years have past since our little boy arrived home. He is about to enter the teenager period of his life. It is a very hard part of his life. His voice already cracked sometimes and he gets really ashamed when his voice cracks. It will get worse, his voice will crack more often and he won't want to go out just because of that, but we will help him get over that. He has a very strong attachment with a friend in his class, he wants to spend all day with him, we are permissive parents so we let him go to his house once in a while. We hope we are doing the right things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescence

11 years old

Alex turns eleven, time flew. Time passes to fast, we feel like we haven't enjoyed that much time with our son even though we have spent tons of time with him, he have had tons of fun. Having a kid is probably the best thing that has happened to us, we formed such a strong bond in the family, in shorter words we formed an attachment between all of us. He is doing really great in school, he is part of the Principal's List of his grade, he makes us way too proud, and we used positive reinforcement with our son, which is when we give him a treat or something good to him when he does something good. We give him 50 lempiras for every A that he gets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement

10 years old

Alex is not a little kid anymore, he is starting to be more organized kid, we are glad to see this. One day he came up to our room and told us that he had a best friend already, as soon as he told us all the story we knew that it was an attachment, all the things he told us matched with what the psychologist told us. On weekends he wants to go to the kid's house everyday and he really talks a lot about him. He already passed over the stranger anxiety stage, he could talk to a stranger with no problem one day in a birthday we are glad he passed over that. That day after that we went home and went to sleep very fulfilled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship

9 years old

We traveled to the Unites States with our son for the first time the summer that just passed. We had a blast, we went to one of our friend's house and while staying at their house stranger anxiety attacked our son. The owner of the house started talking to our son as soon we got to his house and he started crying and crying. After about two or three days our son formed a really strong bond to the person he couldn't even talk to some days before. We were really curious about what had happened to our son, the sudden change was really strange. We consulted a psychologist about what happened and he told us that is what psychologists call an attachment; an attachment is when a young kid forms a tie with another person. Everything is running perfectly until now, this makes us really happy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_(psychology)

8 years old

Our little son, well he is not little anymore he is now turning a little bit more independent. He keeps on being a healthy smart child, he is really good at math, and he is brilliant when it comes to numbers. We wanted to see how much into the concrete preoperational stage he was and we got him to practice reversibility, reversibility us when you are adding two numbers and you swap them, if he put the same answer without thinking about it too much it tells us that he mastered reversibility. One day we were at the mall buying some things for our house and we took our beloved child, and a man at a store started talking to him offering him some candy, the guy was very nice to him but our son started crying and crying like crazy, we thought something was wrong so we consulted a psychologist. He told us that it was completely normal, it is called stranger anxiety it happens to kids about this age, when they talk to a person that is new to them they get freaked out. Exactly what happened to Alex. Well we are happy that everything is going on normally.

http://psychology.about.com/od/piagetstheory/p/concreteop.htm

7 years old

Our son Alex, is growing up so fast. We didn't even feel the years pass by. We can see lots of changes in him; his personality is starting to change already. He starts to use logical reasoning a lot now, we are glad that we can see this because that tells us that he is entering the concrete operational stage in a good way. We are trying to maintain him really close to us right now because he is crossing a critical period, familiarity comes in right now and we need to form that bond right now. We hope that our son continues to grow healthy just like he is doing right now .

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewArticle.asp?id=19761

Feeding Alex

booringg

Feeding Alex

...(sigh)....

Feeding Alex

BUHRING!

Feeing alex

jeezzzz

Feeding Alex

feeding him once again....

feeding alex

2nd time feeding him.

Feeding alex

Alex's First Trip

On our boy's 6th Bithday, we decided to take him to Disney Land. He should be so happy, he will see all his favorite cartoons, and ride rollercosters.
We woke on time to get to the airport. It took us quite a while to arrive. Everything was going smoothly until...little Alex starts asking for a hamburger. We told him he will have to wait until lunch, because he had already had breakfast. Little Alex couldn't take a "no". He started having a huge tantrum infront of everyone. Stephanie and I we're embarrassed. We couldn't find the way to make him stop. I seriously wanted to smack him..(but that't not a right thing to do to a child). We gave in and decided to buy him an icecream to calm him down, and guess what? It worked. He didn't give us any more problems.

http://www.heptune.com/tantrum.html

Alexander Masaac is a 5 year-old!

Alex turns 5...time goes so quickly..
Alex seems to be kind of egocentric. He doesn't like to share toys with his classmates. Just yesterday, his teacher summoned us to a meeting with her. She told us that our little Alexander got into a fight with one of his classmate, Timoteo. Apparently they were fighting over waterbottles. Both of us had a talk with Alexander. He knows better not to fight, specially not over silly stuff. Sadly we grounded him for a week. No TV or videogames. This should be a lesson to behave and always find peaceful solutions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egocentrism

Alexander's 4th Birthday!

It's Alexanders 4th B-day!
We are so happy he has made it this far. Sadly he doesn't share our happiness. Alex has lost his favorite toy..his teddy bear. He started crying for his loss. We didn't want him to be sad the day of his birthday, so we made up a story. Stephanie told Alexander that his teddy bear, Margarito, went on a one-day vacation. That night, we left little Alex with his grandmother, and we looked for the same teddy bear at Toys 'R Us. The next day Alex woke up and found "Margarito" besides him. He bought our harmless lie.

Next week, Alex will be starting school. He will be assisting the E.I.S. We plan on being authoritative parents. We will demand good grades and exert rules, but we will explain why we place certain rules. Hopefully we will raise him correctly..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting_styles

Potty Training

Alexander turns 3!

He understands the concept of conservation.
He has formed an attachment to his mother. He rathers spending time with her..not that im jelouse of it..When we took him to the doctored, he got scared, because he didn't know who the doctor was. When Alex saw him, he cowered and looked for Stephanie instead of me.
Good news, Alex now uses that toilet. One less mess to clean! Cleaning up his mess gets annoying. Sometimes he would soil himself shortly after being bathed.

http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/parenting_tips/potty_training/index.html

Alexander Turns 2!

Our sprouts second b-day! This is ever so exiting!

Our child is beginning the Sensorimotor Stage. He represents ideas with objects. For example, yesterday, Alexander started bagging his spoon to tell us he was hungry. During this stage, our toddler can meditate, think deeper than just objects around him. Alexander likes to wander around the house looking for things that will intrigue him. During this period, we will start seeing his creativity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorimotor_stage#Sensorimotor_period

Our 1 Year-Old!

Today, our beloved son turns 1!

He now creates schemas- concepts- to interpret the world around. He’s also going through motor development. Soon he will be able to walk. During this months our baby boy will be learning to cognitive skills- retaining and interpreting information. He now knows that he can move objects. Some nights he starts playing with his rattler, keeping us up until he finally decides to sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_cognitive_development

Alexander's Birth

After 9 months of waiting for this special moment, Alexander is born! We can recall every step of developing progress. I remember when the doctor gave us the news that one of the sperm cells had penetrated the egg and fertilized it, creating a Zygote. Two weeks later, we could see images of our little sprout. He looked weird. That's because he was in the process of forming organs, or in the Embryo Stage. Nine weeks later, we saw images of the fetus. Now Alex looked more like a human.
Luckily our child is healthy. During pregnancy, we made sure no teratogens affected his future.

When designing the nursery, we took in mind safety issues. Babies, as you know, are very fragile. Little Alexanders can easily die if he falls or receives hard bump on his head. Thus, we decided to fill his crib with cotton to keep me safe from falls/bumps.

We also did some research for supplies we will need. Some of them are:
Diapers Food Extras
Toys Books
Clothes Medicine

Taking care of our baby won't be cheap...we will atleast spend 800$ on baby expenses.

Birth Certificate:

Name: Alexander Masaac Lopez Ictech
Place of Birth: San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Hospital: Cemesa
Date of Birth: April 7th, 2010
Height: 20 in.
Weight: 8 lbs
Mother: Stephanie Ictech
Father: Donaldo Lopez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_development