So last week we had the ultrasound and here are the pictures.
It’s been awhile since we posted any videos so here is a video tour of our new house. It is great to have all the baby gates installed (after much cursing due to poor instructions) so Chloe can roam the upstairs and not go tumbling down the stairs. We have just a few boxes left to unpack, wait for Trey’s furniture to be delivered in mid May, and hang things on the walls so we are essentially done moving in!
So the Lewis family is inching towards completion of all scheduled renovations of our new house! It has been organized…and sometimes unorganized chaos here since Thursday. We closed last Wednesday but things really started happening Thursday. The movers came Thursday, the counters were installed, and furniture was delivered all on the same day. Friday the backsplash was set and grout placed on Saturday. The popcorn ceiling in the kitchen was removed last week. The new wood kitchen floors were started over the weekend and finished today. The railing in the kitchen that overlooks the family room is about a 1/3 of the way done so when they get that completed Tuesday, things will be completed.
The house is great and we already have met 3 sets of neighbors. Chloe is likely to end up with a friend that is 2 years old and lives behind us. That little girl’s dad said the neighborhood pool is great so that is exciting. We found out today why our house appraised for a surprisingly low value, the neighbor to the south of us bought his house in a foreclosure and fought to get his house appraised for virtually nothing. Apparently, he had the county expand to over a half mile radius to find a house close to the same price as his so that hurt the appraisal value of our house, which is fine. The neighbors two houses to the south of us are professors that have people in the neighborhood over for wine and cheese often, the wife teaches at the University of Arkansas during the week for fall and spring semesters and her husband is a vice chancellor at UMKC. Kelly and I were laughing how our old neighbors two houses to the south of us were a bunch of 30+ year old guys that had enough tattoos to make Hell’s Angels blush and frequently had their own ultimate fighting tournament in their driveway…kind of a change!
Maybe the best thing though is Tuesday will be the first day we don’t have to eat fast food! Chloe’s new highchair is assembled and ready for a normal meal from the fridge/freezer rather than a fast food meal.
While things are nearly completed in terms of being structurally finished, there is still a ton of organizing/donating to Goodwill to be done. Our other house wasn’t full of livable space but it had way more storage space than this house does.
Easter was great. We went over to Kenny and Carrie’s, surprising huh? Chloe got all dolled up and was entertaining as always. She actually made such a good impression on Kenny and Carrie that they came over and took Chloe for the day this Saturday while we were working on the house. Chloe’s top two teeth and in now so when it was once fun to let her chew on your finger, it is now extremely painful since she has some razors for teeth. Her favorite words are ‘dada’, ‘owww’, ‘no’, ‘dog’, sign language for ‘please’, and rarely we get her to say ‘mama.’
Today was Kelly/Trey’s last sonogram. She is 30 weeks on Tuesday and Trey was 3lbs 5oz on the sonogram with everything looking normal and he’s facing down so unless he does something unexpected, it looks like no C section.
Here are some pictures of Easter as well as some of our kitchen.
Today was great. We went to church with the Kilgore crew and of course Chloe had to make friends with everyone around us. We spent the rest of the day at Kenny and Carrie’s house along with Grandma Karen, Father Gabriel, and Grandpa Kilgore.
We are just 2 days away from when we close on our new house! Our real estate agent said it best when she said we are moving from a sardine can to a football field. Kelly has all the kitchen renovations lined up so we are hoping all the work is done by the end of Friday this week. The movers are coming Thursday. The beginning of next week is when the our new furniture will be delivered so we are excited and very busy!
Here are some pictures, good and not so good of today.
We had a pretty fun Valentine’s Day this year. Chloe had breakfast with her favorite valentine…Grandpa. She did her usual of eating, talking, playing, and (of course) staring.
When we got home Grandma Lewis had left Chloe a Valentine’s Day present in which she was VERY excited to open. Her favorite thing to do is to play with tissue paper, wrapping paper, card, envelope and eventually the actual present. She is definitely her mother’s daughter because she adores playing with her CLOTHES! :-)
We did a big celebration for Chloe last Saturday, so for her birthday we just kept it low key. She still got cake, though, AND loved it!
It’s been an exciting week! Chloe turned 1 (yesterday) and we had a great time celebrating this HUGE accomplishment with a party last Saturday. She absolutely loved every minute of it. She loved it so much that she only took one small nap early that morning and then was in party mode the rest of the day (until 8:30 that night). Hence, the pics where she looks a little out of it…she’s exhausted but she just couldn’t be away from all of the action. She absolutely LOVED her cake and we're pretty sure she is expecting a similar experience at each meal. :-) Also, here are some videos of her from the weekend that are adorable. The last one will require you to sign up but it is VERY worth it.
Video by our friends, Mike and Suzanne
The Birthday Girl!
Chloe and her giant cupcake!
Chloe and her presents!
Family and Friends!
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