Sock worms and head lice

The children are growing more beautiful every day.

Pass the Pigs is the newest addition to Royce's game collection. Rubbery pigs are thrown as dice and the highest score wins. The kids love it. 

It was pretty rainy this week. George and I went for a walk in the rain.

George participated in a few Cub Scout activities while I was painting the kitchen window of the Scout Hall.

It was Mon's birthday, and we had a puppetry performance and cake. Max made the sock puppets by sewing a piece of cardboard into the sock to make a mouth. He learnt how to do this at school. The two puppets seen here are both worms.

George's head was itchy. It turned out that this was caused by lice. Many thriving generations of lice, it looked like. George has cheerfully tolerated much combing and nit-picking. Luckily Max had somehow not caught any. 

Party at Aunty Shani's, Trip to Melbourne and Leopold

On the 9th of July, 1942, a little cherub was born in Racine, Wisconsin.

We had a birthday party for him on the 9th of July this year.

Uncle Kim cooked up a feast, lamb and chicken on a spit.

This is at the Mitchell River, behind Picnic Point Hall. Jack taught us a thing or two about fishing.

We didn't catch any fish, but then we didn't stay for long because Max fell in. Lucky he had been brushing up on his survival swimming skills recently with the school swimming programme.

Isabella came to play. She is George's friend from school. Some say she is his "girlfriend".

She was quite taken with our guinea pigs. Her brothers were visiting us too. They all wanted to feed a carrot to a guinea pig. Then they got sick of that and played dress up.

 Lindenow area landscapes.

Max and George on a city bus going to the Melbourne Aquarium.

Talking to the penguins

Murray Cod (the one on the left)

Lion fish

Sneaky hiding fish

Fish viewing Max and George

Glass fish

Children visiting the Melbourne Aquarium are justified in handling this starfish, an invasive species from the Pacific Ocean that has moved into Port Phillip Bay and is eating the local ones.

A stingray swims past Mitchell, the grey nurse shark. Scuba divers came and fed the shark, rays, snapper, sea turtle and others by hand. We were told that the divers are only scared of the sea turtle, not the shark.

Later that day, these strange aquatic mammals were sighted at Sandra and Jim's place.

Then the kids spent a couple of days at Nanny and Gramps' place at Leopold, being spoiled! Nanny said both kids were very well behaved.