ContentChildren, get the component and the native Element

I have been looking for ages on the documentation and source code of Angular, but so far no luck.

import {
  ContentChildren,
  QueryList
} from '@angular/core';
import { AwesomeComponent } from './awesome.component';

@Component({
  selector: 'cool-dad',
  templateUrl: './cool-dad.template.html'
})
export class CoolDadComponent {
  @Input() loop = false;
  @Input() automatic = false;
  @ContentChildren(AwesomeComponent) items: QueryList<AwesomeComponent>;

  someFunc() {
    this.items.forEach(item => { console.log(item)});
  }
}

With the above code I get a reference to the component, I can set it's properties and call it's public methods. That's great, but I also need access to it's html properties, such as width, height, etc.

import {
  ContentChildren,
  ElementRef,
  QueryList
} from '@angular/core';
import { AwesomeComponent } from './awesome.component';

@Component({
  selector: 'cool-dad',
  templateUrl: './cool-dad.template.html'
})
export class CoolDadComponent {
  @Input() loop = false;
  @Input() automatic = false;
  @ContentChildren(AwesomeComponent, { read: ElementRef }) items: QueryList<AwesomeComponent>;

  someFunc() {
    this.items.forEach(item => { console.log(item)});
  }
}

With the above code I get the native element and therefore I can get access to all the html properties, but I loose all the access to the components methods.

How can I get both?