Socceroos, frogs, fruit salad, and the Traveller's badge.

Here's George enjoying a boiled egg for breakfast one day. He ran out of toast "soldiers" to dip with and was using his tongue instead.

All clean, showered, hair gelled up, and having lunch at the Farmer's Home Hotel of Lindenow. Max and George were given some Socceroos swag for the coming World Cup. Of course, we will barrack for Italy if and when the Socceroos are eliminated. 

 

Then we went to see the Swampies play at Lindenow South, and found a frog.

  

George told me they washed this little frog because he was all muddy. His back was really black, which matched the mud. Soon George's shoes, socks and feet were black and muddy too.

Holly and Piama and George had some fruit salad together that Holly made. Max was at school that day but Holly and Pia's school had a day off. 

George played with his cousins all day while I painted Piama's bedroom to match her gumboots. And Holly gave George one of her horse posters.

Max took invitations to school for his birthday party. We are counting down the days until he turns 8. Hopefully it is a sunny day that day. 

We had several visits from my Nan in spirit form. The blue wren was her favorite bird.

Max has been working towards his first badge at Cubs. He had to obtain a local map and mark the route that he travels to go somewhere near his house. He had to list 4 modes of transport and pros and cons of each one. He had to mark on a map 4 places of interest that he would show to a visitor. And finally he gave an illustrated talk to the Cub pack on his latest trip away. Max was a little bit nervous before Cubs that night but spoke confidently in front of everybody. 

Rain, funny faces, Batman shakes his booty

Lately it has been a bit rainy, and sometimes you can even breathe out "smoke" which is what George was trying to do here. 

We have been visiting Aunty Shani a lot lately. Malikai had a cold this week. 

There are a lot of funny faces in the photos this week.

Max lost his tooth - the one that has been wobbly for about a YEAR finally came out. 

It was the first day of winter, a lovely sunny day to do a bit of bike maintenance. This was one requirement for Max to work towards getting his "cyclist" badge at Cubs. We washed the bike and then greased the chain and the kickstand. 

Here we are at Howitt Park's giant slide. 

This is a bees hive we saw at Howitt Park. 

Max with his early birthday present - a watch. Less than 2 weeks until he turns 8. He is still deciding what to do for his birthday celebrations.

Jack and Andrew came to play on the weekend. We watched a bit of football and netball being played. They climbed trees. 

Andrew gave George his old Batman costume. Thanks Andrew!

Batman danced the night away and then insisted on sleeping in his costume.

Gardening, George's Burgers, and Fishing

George and I were up at the Primary School again on Wednesday at lunchtime. We went along to the "gardening club", where we did a bit of weeding with the kids.

George's Burgers is a legendary hamburger shop in Bairnsdale. Max and George got to experience a burger cooked by George himself.

These stuffed and mounted fish were on the wall of George's Burgers along with photos of fish being caught.

And strangely enough, on the weekend we ended up tagging along with Kade and James on our own very first  fishing trip at the Paynesville foreshore.

We saw black swans and a Pelican. We found evidence that pelicans had been walking in puddles.

And then... we went for a walk on Raymond Island and found a koala.

On the ferry from Raymond Island back to the mainland.