World Dairy Expo!

HI!

On Wednesday we arrived home safely from our short trip to Madison, Wisconsin!
We had a great time. We left Sunday morning early. First we flew to Minneapolis. Then from there to Madison. The flight went great and Tys even got some sleep on the plane. He did really well!
We arrived in Madison at about 2 pm. We had to drive to Deforest where we stayed at the Holiday Inn. That was about 20 minutes driving. But since we were early we just took our time and took a scenic route. That was fun. We sat in the spa when we arrived, that was fun. Then our friends from Florida, Michael, Carrie and their daughter, Madison, arrived and the rest of the trip we hung out. It was a lot of fun to see them again. Madison had gotten so big! And sooo cute! Madison and Tys got along really well, Madison could not stop looking at him! Adorable...
Monday the buys had to judge all day. Carrie and me and the babies went shopping, which was a lot of fun. We met up with our husbands when they were done and went out to dinner.
Tuesday we hung out at World Dairy Expo all day. It was really fun.
Then, Wednesday we had to leave early to go home again. And again, Tys did really well on the plane. We were so glad. We were home nice and early.
Here are some nice pictures from our trip;

Leaving for World Dairy Expo!

Hi!


Tomorrow we'll be leaving for World Dairy Expo, in Madison, Wisconsin.
This will be Tys' first time on a plane (except for when he was in my belly ofcourse!)
We're very excited and busy getting everything ready. Rudi on the dairy and me in the house. Doing some laundry and packing the bags. There is a lot more stuff to bring now that we have a baby! But... it's worth it, it will be a lot of fun!

Other than that we've been pretty busy, it seems like there's always something going on and there's lots of things to do!
Tys is eating some solids now too and he's doing very well. He turned six months this past Wednesday. His 6 month check up and immunizations will be next Thursday.
He is such a blessing. Always happy, and almost never complains about anything! Such a sweet boy.

Yesterday we took him with us to dinner and the movies. Rudi teaches Sundayschool and the kids he taught last year went out with us, because they had done all the memory work Rudi had told them to do!
We went to Pizza Hut, Cold Stone and to the movies. It was a lot of fun!

We'll let you know how World Dairy Expo was!!!

Tys is learning every day!

Hi everybody!

Tys is learning so much!
He started rolling over from back to belly and back!!!
He spends more time on his belly now, he's having a lot of fun doing that!
Also he's learning how to sit up still! He's getting better at it. I use my boppy pillow to support him, that works really well.
I've been feeding him some fruit and cereal, and he loves it! He sleeps for 12 hours during the night, from 8 to 8!
Rudi and me are doing well also, Rudi's just been busy on the dairy. I still help him every now and then. It's fun working together, and Tys comes with us in the stroller, and he loves being outside, looking at the cows!
It's been nice and warm here, but it's starting to get cooler a little bit every day which is nice. the mornings and nights are nice and cool. During the day it's still around 80. We haven't had rain for a long long time! I don't even remember the last time it rained!
The corn is getting nice and tall! and the new freestall barn is getting close to done!
Here are some pictures of Tys. I'll try to put some pictures of the dairy on next time!

Oh, if you want to check out the other De Winkle - sites, here are the addresses;

Dirk, Molly and Arie; www.thedewinkles.blogspot.com

Cory and Katie; ckdewinkle.blogspot.com

Justin and Siska have a MySpace, I don't know the address though. Maybe you can google it...

Tys and Rudi on the couch

Tys

Tys and me

Gideon and Tys. Tys likes Gideon's pacifier a lot!!! He tries to grab it all the time!

Bye!!!

Tys already 5 months!!!

Hi everybody, Sorry it's been so long since the last message, but we've been having some issues with the internet here on the dairy! Things are going great! Tys turned 5 months on Sunday! He's getting so big. His 4-months appointment went well, he cried for about 5 seconds after he had his shots. He weighs about 18 lbs now! We went camping the first week of August, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday up in McCall, it was beautiful and very nice to be away from the dairy for a couple of days. It's always good to come back home too though! We just relaxed there and walked around in McCall. On the way home we stopped at a flee market in Cascade, where we bought a beautiful custom made sign for our house. It has a windmill, wooden shoe and tulips, and our names en Tys' name on a seperate piece of wood! Really cute! Other than that we celebrated mom and dads birthdays (August 8 and 11) and last week was Peter's birthday (August 19th), he had to have surgery on his birthday! He had appendicitis! Not good! He came home that same night, and has been doing really well. Yesterday we celebrated my 23rd birthday, we had a barbecue. That was a lot of fun, I've been really spoiled with a lot of presents!! Tys has 2 teeth already, and they're super-sharp!!! Other than that he is learning to sit up by him self. And he's had a little bit of rice cereal already! He really likes it! He's a very sweet boy! We love him so much!

Some pictures;

Tys playing with his "new" teeth

Tys got a lange vinger (lady finger = cookie) from his beppe!!!

Tys smiling in his stoer (= cool/tough) shirt!

Tys showing off his muscles!

This was in July, Tys by omke Wiebe and tante Nellie! We already miss you!!

Tys' new highchair!

Tys has got a new highchair! Check it out!!
This was a present from pake and beppe De Winkle!
He loves it as you can see! Even though he's a little small for it yet...

He says Hi! to everybody!

This Bumbo-seat was a present from the Waterman family, good friends of ours!
He really likes it, look at him checking himself out in the mirror!
This is Fun!!

This is Tys in his bath! It's called a "tummy tub", kind a like a big bucket! He loves it. This is what everybody in Holland uses! I just had to have it of course!
He just figured out how to make splashes!

Tys is still doing great, his four month check up and immunizations are coming up... August 1st...

We will keep you posted!

4th of July

We had a great 4th of July! We went to the parade in Melba, that was a lot of fun. Cory, Peter and Justin were in the parade with the Fire Department! The weather was great, it was hot, but there was a nice breeze!
After the parade we went to Karen's house. We had a nice barbecue there, and we all swam in the pool! That was fun!
The fireworks were awesome! Rudi and I went, we left Tys with the family! So that was kind of our first "date" without Tys! We were only gone for an hour... :)
Rudi's uncle from Amsterdam, Holland is here with his wife and 2 sons! And Rudi's uncle from Missouri is here with his wife! So we're having lots of fun!
Little Logan was baptized today! So we had a big barbecue at Rudi's parents' house. That was a lot of fun too!

Here are some pictures of Tys and his cousins!

Happy 4th of July!

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We want to wish everybody a happy fourth of July! We hope you will have fun! Our plans are to go to the parade in Melba in the morning. In the afternoon we have a barbecue at Karen's house (Karen is one of the nurses at the birthing center, where Miriam, me and Siska had our boys, we became good friends with her!) And ofcourse we're going to end the day with..... the firework in Melba! Great balls of fire!!!


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We have a cute little american-flag outfit for Tys! Hopefully we won't get over heated, it's going to be about a 100 degrees F! HOT! We'll just have to keep cool I guess!


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This is Rudi on his first Fathers day! (a little late... I know!)



Tys sleeping in his cradle. Do you see that shirt? Cool, huh? A present from my sister Aly from Holland!

Tys fell a sleep in his bouncy seat, I thought it was funny, the way his leg hangs over the edge!

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