Close call

Last weekend was more than just a little busy with tons of family in town for a wedding and graduations.  Things for Chloe were so far from a schedule, but she did well.  It made us realize even more that she is best with her normal schedule, but she is ok when things get off…and they got WAY off on Friday night.  The little cake devouring party animal didn’t go to sleep until 10:45 that night!

Last weekend wasn’t the biggest excitement we had in the last few days though.  Kelly went to the OB on Monday and she was 1cm dilated with her cervix 80%.  Cervices get thinner at the end of pregnancy and the fancy way of saying that is ‘effacement.’  She was exactly 35 weeks pregnant then.  Late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, I woke up to Kelly poking me at 1:15am telling me she felt a weird pain in her abdomen.  You have to remember that with Chloe, Kelly woke up with her water broke, large contractions, and she was 5cm dilated when we got to the hospital so there isn’t much reference for her or me as to what her beginning stages of labor are.  We ended up at the hospital after she talked to the OB on-call.  She wasn’t dilated any further but she definitely was having contractions on the monitor.  Luckily, the contractions slowed down and stopped so they sent us home.  Kelly’s been fine since.  I called in Thursday though for fear something might happen.

At this rate, the next blog update might include pictures of Trey!

More furniture

Two more furniture additions were made this week to the house.  First, we got a king sized bed.  Now Kelly and Trey have their side of the bed while I have mine, two great nights of sleep later has me wondering why we waited until now.  Second addition is probably just a way to speed up our way to Chloe’s first concussion.  We got her a rocking chair for her room.  She loves it already.

Chloe also had her 15 month checkup today.  She tipped the scales at 21lbs 7oz (27%), 29in tall (11%), and head circumference at 17.5in (20%).

 

Happy Mothers’ Day!

We spent this Sunday like we’ve done so many times, feeding our faces at the Argosy with Grandpa!  Chloe probably is going to be banned from there soon since all she does is yell and talk to the other tables while trying to personally bankrupt the buffet with the amount of blueberries she wolfs down.  We went to Grandpa’s and he’s now officially up to date with his technology.  His 42” LCD TV is mounted on the wall (thankfully the maintenance man did that!) and has his components now all hooked up.  The new camera he got has the computer software installed and hooked up now so he’s able to send pictures to people and print his own pictures!

Less than a week now and Kelly’s cousin, Steven, is getting married.  Tons of family are going to be in town.  Patti, Mark, Gwen, and Eric will be in town so I’m sure they will get a healthy dose of Chloe…maybe we should send Chloe back with them and Chloe will be less hyperactive due to the altitude/thin air!?  As if a big family wedding isn’t a big enough event for a weekend, Nick Kilgore is graduating from high school!  Nothing like making you feel old when you have memories that seem recent of a person as a very young kid but that person is now graduating. 

Here are some pictures of the headstone with the flowers we put at Grandma’s headstone.  It was a big deal for Chloe since she’s not been there before today.  Grandpa picked out the flowers, we wonder if he’s been working as a florist and we weren’t aware of it.  The flowers are very pretty.

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What a busy busy time

Last weekend we went back to Wichita for Scott’s engagement to Alyssa.  EVERYONE knew but Alyssa.  It was fun as Scott had a bunch of our family and her family as well as friends show up on a trolley outside of a restaurant that he and Alyssa had dinner at on Saturday.  When they came out, Scott dropped to a knee and put the ring on her finger.  It was a fun night as people came over to Terri and Mike’s house afterwards.  That was also the first night we’ve been without Chloe for the entire night.  She spent the night in Augusta with Grandma and Grandpa Lewis and had a great time.

Chloe has now decided that everything with four legs is a dog and needs to be told ‘no’ since we tell Maddie and Lawrence ‘no’ often.  She seems to be walking better on a daily basis and has two bottom and two top teeth with 4 more top teeth on the way.  This really is a great time with her as she is so interactive and fun.

Kelly goes back to the OB next week for another sonogram.  It is called a BPP (biophysical profile) and they will be doing some specific measurements and Trey will get a score of 0 to 8.  The higher the better.  Based on Kelly delivering Chloe early and there not being a large amount of fluid when Kelly’s water broke last time, the OB thought we should do at least one of these at this point in time.  Trey and Chloe are so different at this point in time.  We could only feel Chloe move a little bit but Trey is always on the move.  Last night we sat in bed just watching Trey push out on Kelly’s tummy.  It was really neat and happens all the time.  Odds are if you see a picture of Kelly, she’s holding her tummy because Trey is kicking and she’s feeling him.  Safe to say, she’s getting very attached to this pregnancy. :)  Trey’s room is mostly complete now that Kelly’s sorted all of the random stuff we had in there so the furniture will be delivered soon and we will be ready.

Here are some pictures from last weekend.

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Things are a happening!

So last week we had the ultrasound and here are the pictures.

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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!

Getting Closer…

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.

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Happy Easter

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.

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