Hippies, Friends, and More…

Chloe’s vocabulary is growing at a tremendous rate lately.  She’s also starting to put multiple words together.  It’s very neat to see her suddenly start using new phrases.  One of her new items is a pair of sunglasses.  On the way home from the babysitter, we drive straight west and the sun often shines in her eyes.  Her response is ‘no no no…ow ow ow’ and covers her eyes.  Tonight on the way home, she weighed in on world violence with a simple gesture.  While she flashed the peace sign, she’s far from a pacifist.  If she wants it, she lets you know and will not give up easily.

Each day that passes, Trey and Chloe definitely become better buddies.  There is no doubt that Chloe is very consumed with where Trey is at all times.  If he’s in his room and starts crying, she will come find you immediately yelling ‘CRYING CRYING, TREY!’  Trey responds to her very well and the two feed off each other.  Here is a video of Chloe making Trey laugh when he was in his crib.

Here is another video of the two on our bed while we got ready last weekend. 

Trey had his 6 month well child appointment today.  He’s hit a growth spurt and now he weighs 17 lbs 2 oz (28th %), 26.25 inches (25th %), and he still has a big melon for the rest of his body since his head circumference is in the 44th %.  Trey sits up on his own with no problems now.  Lately he’s decided that he actually likes baby food and has been swallowing the food rather than spitting it back at us when we feed it to him.  It’s kind of scary because he’s so much larger than she was at this age and he’s catching up to her too!  Here is a picture we took tonight (sorry for bad quality, it’s a cell phone pic) of Chloe holding Trey.  You can see how close in size they are.  When we run out of his current size 3 diapers, he will be in the same size 4 diapers that she wears!

Christmas Recap

We hope everyone had a great Christmas.  The Lewis crew went to Wichita last Wednesday and then made the trek to Augusta Christmas Eve.

Wichita was a lot of fun.  I went to the shooting range with Mike D, Scott, and Paul.  The overwhelming consensus is the military would have no use for me unless they need to sacrifice someone on the front line because I can’t hit the target.  Lexi and Chloe put tons of miles on their little feet as they ran all over Nana’s and Papa’s house.  They also got in plenty of dancing…

Due to people spending Christmas day at other houses, we did our gift exchange and Santa came early on the 24th.  It was a lot of fun to see Chloe open gifts and then completely lose focus and move on to another one.  She got a very nice little table and chairs that she has already used quite a bit today after we got home.  It was funny to watch Chloe and Lexi running around with their new umbrellas!

Other sweet gifts…Kelly got a Wii so now this family can finally become addicted to video games since we’ve never owned a gaming system…I got a bbq smoker so Bobby Flay will soon meat (yes pun intended) his master on that battle cooking show.

Chloe also got a set of tap shoes from Aunt Alyssa.  She’s got something, not sure we’d call it rhythm, but she’s got something…

Christmas at the Lewis’ was just as high paced and present packed as the previous day.  Chloe now has enough play kitchen items that she might be able to open her own kiddy catering service.  All Christmas morning she spent giving everyone ‘bite’ and ‘drink’ of coffee from her coffee maker.  I got a promise from my brother to help me install the sprinkler system my parents got me so when spring gets here, our yard will hopefully be looking much better!  Chloe went outside and fed the ‘DUCKS!’ with Grandma and Grandpa. 

Later Christmas night, there were some unexpected visitors.  Chloe had no idea what they were singing but that didn’t mean she wasn’t going to sing.

After opening countless presents, we got back to KC late this morning.  We probably didn’t even have room to put a kleenex in the car because it was packed so tight.

Chloe clearly learned quickly how to make coffee with her new coffee maker as Kelly found out tonight.  She walked into the kitchen and Chloe was getting ‘waaater’ from the refrigerator to make ‘cooooffee’ in her coffee cup and coffee pot.

 

Needless to say, the refrigerator water/ice dispenser has been put on lock.

Our last load of laundry is now finishing up, all presents are washed/put away/etc, both kids are now asleep…and mommy and daddy are exhausted.  We’ll end this with Trey giving us his thoughts on how much fun he had over Christmas.

Photo albums

http://picasaweb.google.com/chloe.lewis0/DunawayChristmas2010#

http://picasaweb.google.com/chloe.lewis0/LewisChristmas#

One Quick Video

Chloe has a new friend.  Her friend’s name is ‘Shadow.’  This friend goes everywhere she does no matter how fast Chloe runs, how hard she stomps on it, or any other method of shaking it from her side.

Ho Ho Ho version 1.0 2010

There are multiple Christmas’ for us this year.  Soon we will be heading to Wichita and then Augusta.  However, we wanted to do our own Christmas gift exchange in the new house so we did it yesterday.  Trey got lots of hugs and kisses and promises he’ll get gifts next year.  Chloe received something called a V reader which is a essentially a digital book that reads to her and has many other options.  She also got a huge aqua doodle pad.

Mommy gave daddy a Weber Q grill so now he doesn’t have to lug around the old charcoal grill to tailgate.  Daddy gave mommy a cooking class at a culinary center in KC that she will also take Chloe too.  If you are wondering what the last picture is, it’s Kelly crying.  Yes, the girl that many once thought had no emotions is now a huge softy.

It’s unlikely we will have any other posts to the blog before Christmas so Merry Christmas to everyone!

Here is a link to pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/chloe.lewis0/ChristmasInKC#

Here is a video:

Some More Videos

Chloe has her own blow dryer, Mommy’s hand me down.  It works well for her since it has a cool setting.  Also, here’s a video of the breakfast with Santa.

A Few Quick Videos

Here are a few quick clips of the kids.  First one is Chloe making Trey laugh.  The other is of Chloe this weekend denying the cake she and mommy just made was any good…while she was devouring every bite.

Eating in Style

No, we aren’t talking about a nice outfit regarding Trey’s style.  We decided that after a few weeks of him spitting cereal and oatmeal back at us that we would give him some food that had some flavor…and matched his hair.

He definitely liked his carrots.  It’s his first vegetable so we’re feeling good that he’s 1 for 1 in terms of liking healthy foods!  Here are some more pictures.  And for those that might remember, that is the same bumbo chair Chloe sat in seemingly until her 1 year birthday…we’re pretty sure Trey won’t fit in it as long as Chloe did.

http://picasaweb.google.com/chloe.lewis0/TreyAndCarrots#