Chloe's Baptism

Chloe's Baptism was this past Saturday. She was baptized at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in West Allis, which is the church from my childhood. It was a private ceremony following the Saturday evening service. Pastor Lescow performed the ceremony. He was the pastor that presided over our wedding too. She smiled when the water was poured over her head and was an absolute angel. Thank you, everyone who attended and was so generous with gifts!

This dress is the one that I wore when I was baptized in January of 1980. My Grandma Roders sister-in-law, Norma knitted the dress. It was absolutely perfect.

Chloe in baptismal dress. She looks GIANT from this angle, but such a sweetie!

The Simek Family

Can you tell she's smiling at Pastor Lescow?

Megan and Mike are her godparents.

With both sets of grandparents.

It was a long day!

My mom put this bulletin board together at the Little School where the reception was held following the service.

Of course, my dad made the cake :)

Thanks to everyone for making it such a special day!

Happy New Year

An updated family picture taken on New Year's Day. Sorry the blog is a bit behind. I started back at school part time this past Monday and things have been a little overwhelming!

Happy Little Elf

Chloe's Fashion Statment

Thank you, Sarah and Greg.

Christmas Smile

This is the REAL post for today - a mischievous smile from our little elf. The previous post was done by a post-bandit named Dan. Hope you liked it.

Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night...

Merry Christmas

The Simek Family on Christmas morning in our PJs
The BEST GIFT EVER!

Chloe Jo with all of her presents on Christmas morning


We hope everyone has a wonderful day with those that you love. Merry Christmas!

Holiday Happenings with CJ

Here is what is going on in Chloe's world:

1. She is having some problems spitting up through her nose. Yucky for her and upstetting for us because she gets so sad when it happens. Obviously, she has no understanding of what is going on. We went to the doctor today and they prescribed baby Zantac for her. I guess you would say she has heartburn or reflux. It should relieve some of her discomfort. We'll keep you posted on how that is working.
2. While at the doctor we found out that Chloe is 6 1/2 pounds!!! This is a dramatic difference from December 5 when she was only 5 1/3 pounds. She's been putting on an ounce a day since then. Wow - she is almost regular baby size!
3. Also while at the doctor she decided to pee all over Dan's fleece. Way to go, kid.
4. We may have had a genuine smile today. It lasted way too long to be gas, we decided. We will try to capture a video and post it.
5. We are excited to spend our first Christmas with our little girl. We will take lots of pictures and get them up as soon as we can.
6. Thanks to Uncle Morgan and Auntie Megan for this cool new digital video camera. Hopefully, our videos will be of higher quality and we can post video more frequently.
7. The video really isn't anything special except Chloe being Chloe and Daddy being silly. This is what a day in our lives is like through the eyes of Mommy :)

Merry Christmas to everyone from the Simeks-

Chloe's First Smile?

We may have captured a smile... or perhaps just a gassy moment. Whatever it is, sure is cute, hey?

Chloe's Friends continued

Chris and Amy Guthrie came to visit and see Chloe when she was a couple of weeks old. I went to high school with Chris and worked at the YMCA with Amy. We're so glad they could stop by.

I've realized that I am short on pictures of Chloe with all of our friends, so this will be the last post until I can catch up. Don't be surprised if when you see her we ask to take your picture!

More of Chloe's Friends

Dan has scolded me from veering from my blog theme last week of introducing you all to Chloe's friends. So we are returning to all of the "people" she has met. This happens to be one of her best friends named Chuckles. Chuckles was our "practice child" before Chloe came. As you can see, she is growing out of some of her preemie clothing, but he fits into it!

Precious Little One

Just a couple of shots that our friend Sarah took during Chloe's first week home. I know these aren't current shots, but they are a couple of my favorite!

Chloe's New Trick

Chloe gets confused sometimes... enough said.

1 Month

Happy 1 Month Birthday, Chloe! We love you, even with your chicken legs :) She is actually already growing out of her preemie clothes and beginning to wear some newborn outfits. Exciting and sad at the same time; we like her being so little :)

The Other Kids

Here are some of Chloe's friends that are closer to her age.

Ethan Reske - 4 years and Lauren Reske - 22 months

Ella Heideman - 22 months and Lucy Heideman - 3 years

Chloe's Friends

For the next few days we'll post pictures of all our wonderful friends that have come to see Chloe. Regretably, we do not have pictures of each and everyone holding her... so we are sorry if you don't see yourself!

Paul Reske

Melissa Reske

Kolin Golchert

Meeting the Family

Meet Chloe's extended family - the Simek's and the Shemanske's:

Nana Donna (this name is pending)

Grandpa Don

Gramps

Grammy Jo


Auntie Megan and Uncle Morgan



Auntie Jodi


*Note: Uncle Mike and Aunt Jan are not pictured, but Chloe can't wait to meet them!

Chloe at 3 Weeks

For all of you that haven't met her yet... and those of you that just can't get enough ;)

Trimming the Tree

Chloe helped us decorate the tree today. She got a "Baby's First Christmas" ornament from St. Nick yesterday and was just dying to put it on. We helped her a little bit, but she did a good job. (Notice her "I'm concentrating really hard" face... not to be confused with her "I'm pooping" face.)

Then Chloe helped us put the tree topper on. It'll be fun to look back at these pictures of her first Christmas as she gets older.

Thanks to my mom and dad for all of their help getting the house ready for the holidays!