Monday, August 15, 2011

first half of August


Nieko likes to get dirty.. oh, and he also likes chocolate. See here the combination


yard.


our wild garden


Tys and Dutchess bestest friends


We went camping for a day in Cascade!


burnt marshmallow. Tys had fun!


Nieko stole all the chocolate off the crackers!


front of our house


Rudi liked the marshmallows too...


Finn is just smilin' away!

New signs we bought in Cascade to add to our original one. Can you tell it's been 3 years since we've been up there?


Nieko playing in the sandbox


back to camping ~ I don't know why these pictures are a little mixed up..


Tys' favorite thing is to "make smoke"


Time for a break


watching Rudi mow the lawn


peekaboo


Finn in his cute Dutch outfit


Thursday, August 4, 2011

pics of the Dutch bros!

Hello,

Our computer is fixed again! After the electricity went out one morning, our computer wouldn't start up anymore. Turns out the hard drive was going bad. So now we have a brand new hard drive! And thankfully all our files/pictures etc. were saved!
We've been enjoying the summer. The weather has been hot- typically for July. And now it's already August, it seems like the summer just got started!

On July 26th my sister Anyke & Jetze had a beautiful, healthy baby girl, they named her Roos (Dutch version of Rose)! most of my family now have skype and we enjoy "skyping" a lot! It's awesome!

Finn had his 2 month check up last week. He weighed 12lbs 12oz, which is right in the 50th %tile. For lenght he was in the 75th %tile.
He's such a sweet baby and reminds us mostly of Tys.




Finn's first time in the hottub!


This was how he looked the whole time!


here he's "talking" to me! I love having "conversations" with him!


sweet baby


Tys & Nieko looking at all the equipment on the farm. The employees were cleaning and maintaining all the cows' beds. Which takes a lot of equipment, such as; loaders, trucks, skid steers etc! They had a blast!




some fun slide pictures!


cuddle time after nap time! To me it's amazing how three brothers can look so different!

Tys and Nieko are extremely sweet to baby Finn, and they're careful with him too! There has only been one incident so far, where we think Nieko poked him in the eye. Finn was pretty upset about that, but he recovered quickly.. and Nieko.. well, he got in trouble! And hasn't done it since!

Friday, July 22, 2011

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Finn ~ 8 weeks!


Finn is 8 weeks today! Time seems to go a little faster with each boy. He's still a sweet baby. Growing, eating, sleeping etc. Last night he woke up twice, which is very rare!!! But he must going through a little growth spurt I guess. This morning he laughed out loud for the first time, it was the cutest thing ever, it made me laugh too. He's definitely the most serious out of the three. It's hard to say of course since he's just a baby. But I remember the other two smiling more at this stage. It's amazing how different their personalities can be. And their looks too. I get so many different comments on Finn's looks! Some people say he's definitely a De Winkle, others say he looks just like me. And some say he looks like Tys, and others think he looks a lot like Nieko. One thing is for sure; he's a good mix!

I just love those chubby cheeks!


Maybe some of you have read about Nieko's tooth on facebook. Here's to the non-facebookers.
Nieko fell and chipped his tooth yesterday... Nearly half of it is gone. He didn't even really cry about it. Anyways, I called the dentist and went and saw her yesterday, and she recommended me taking him to a pediatric dentist, so I did. This morning the dentist checked him out. He filed the sharp edge of the tooth, and said that there was not much else he could do. He might get an abcess, and the tooth might start turning brown/grey within a month. But for now, we're just going to leave it. If we choose to, we can have the dentist make a filling, and kind of "fix it", but he said a lot of times those don't last on little baby teeth.
So that's the story on Nieko's tooth.
I'd take a broken tooth over a broken femur any day, by the way! I'm already used to his chipped tooth, and I think he's still good-looking.


Even though the lighting in this picture isn't great, I think it's a cute one!
Every day the boys want to hold on to Finn. And overload him with (sometimes slobbery) kisses.
Finn doesn't seem to mind.


We're waiting for my sister Anyke to have a baby, any day now! Her official due date is the 24th. She doesn't know what she's having, so we're real curious!!

Two of my sisters-in-law are expecting!!!


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Sietske (in Holland) & Siska (Rudi's sister)! Both of them already have two boys. And they're both due in January! We're super excited for them of course!

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Finn ~ 7 weeks!


Finn joined our family 7 weeks ago!
Today he weighs 11lbs 14oz!

Monday, July 11, 2011

Rudi's garden!


Besides our three beautiful sons, we also have a beautiful garden! Rudi has spent many hours maintaining the flowers and grass around our house.


Pretty sunset

Rudi with two sleeping boys.


All the pretty flowers, so colorful!

lilies

Finn is smiling more and more!

Helping Rudi

Nieko throwing a temper.. I wanted to take him back to the house, bu the had too much fun "helping" Rudi!

Here he's happy again because I let him sit on the tractor!


This is my favorite part, we call it the "wild garden". Or Rudi calls it Anne's garden!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Independence Day ~ 4th of July

Another beautiful, sunny fourth of July!
As always, we went to the parade in Melba, which was great fun. The older the boys get, the more they seem to enjoy it!



I was nursing Finn. I told Rudi that it seems like every fourth of July I'm nursing a baby!


Our beautiful little Finn. And guess what? His hair definitely looked red in the sunlight!

Justin, Peter, Logan & Levi in the fire truck in the parade!

Tys' favorite

Nieko liked the tractors.

our big boy

now that's my style...!

Nieko loves making "tractor sounds" with his big lips!

Tys and Logan going for a ride in the train!


The youngest two taking a nap

one last look at the monster trucks with Tys

All the boys having fun