Alexander the Great!
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The
following images of AJ (Alexander James) are the most recent.
We've been gathering them since his birth, and they're sorted by month (see
below the current images). Various family pictures will also appear in
these galleries. Click on the thumbnails for a larger version of
the image.
Also, the original writeup from November
29, 2004 is below.
CLICK HERE for pictures of my niece
Isabella
CLICK HERE for
pictures of my nephew Rory
Past Months:
| * * * 2004 - 2005 * * * | 2004 (11/27-12/31) | ||
| January 2005 | February 2005 | March 2005 | April 2005 |
| May 2005 | June 2005 | July 2005 | August 2005 |
| September 2005 | October 2005 | November 2005 | December 2005 |
| 2006 | |||
| January 2006 | February 2006 | March 2006 | April 2006 |
| May 2006 | June 2006 | July 2006 | August 2006 |
| September 2006 | October 2006 | November 2006 | December 2006 |
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| 2007 (in two-month groupings) | |||
| January-February 2007 | March-April 2007 | May - June 2007 | July - August 2007 |
| September-October 2007 | November-December 2007 | ||
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| 2008 (in quarterly groupings) | |||
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January-March 2008 (above) |
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Alexander James (A.J.) McGonigal (born November 27, 2004) surprised us a bit...though full term he arrived two weeks before the "official" due date of December 11th. However, he was definitely ready to go as Laura started having contractions very early Saturday morning (11/27)...we ended up at the hospital (St. Alexius in Hoffman Estates) by 8:00 AM...and by 2:50 PM the baby was born. Alex weighed in at 8 lbs, 4 oz and was 21" long...all the tests have come back fine, so we have a healthy and hungry baby. Laura is sore. Both of us are very happy and kinda tired...
From November 27 - 29 I captured quite a bit of pictures, several of which are posted above...plus I got some cool video during my crash course of using the new camcorder (never owned one before and the first time I used it was Saturday morning). As time goes on I'll add more pictures to make up a nice online gallery, and this gives me an excuse to update the site more often. So far everyone who's seen Alex says he looks a lot like his old man, which I'm hoping they are saying as a compliment! So, if you're interested in seeing what an Irish-Italian-Taiwanese-German kid looks like, now you know.
FYI, we opted to be
surprised as to the sex of the baby (if it would have been a girl, Leah
was the name).

How ironic is it that the last movie we went to see
- three days before the birth - was "Alexander"!