The school did a play called "Mergatroid's Adventures In Bananaland". The grades 4,5 and 6 had all the main roles, Max's grade 3 was part of the chorus.
Max is in the back row on the left of this picture.
George had a fever. Here he is flaked out on the couch. On the plus side, he was allowed to watch TV all day when he was sick!
Max caught this beautiful blue tongued lizard at the Lindenow Bowls Club. We kept it for one day and he then released himself back into the wild. It was last seen under our house with a snail in its mouth.
One day it hailed.
This is the inside of Nanny and Gramps' caravan. They parked it at a local caravan park on September 22nd in anticipation of the birth of their latest grandchild. We popped in on Nanny's birthday to sing "Happy Birthday" accompanied by Max on his ukelele.
Gramps took the kids to the swimming pool.
The cousins were there too.
George is an enthusiastic if slightly overconfident swimmer.
Due to Max's fascination with the ukelele, and his dedication to trying to play an adult-sized guitar Royce had in the shed, we bought him this kid-sized guitar.
George has a rubber drum practise mat.
One fine day, weeks after the due date, Nanny and Gramps looked after the boys because we thought the baby might be on its way. Nanny and Gramps took them to the park, then swimming. They were well and truly tired when they got home!
She was born in the middle of the night and Max and George were so exhausted from the playing and swimming they had done that day, they could not be woken. In the morning Max said he did not expect to be "shaking with happiness" to meet his little baby sister. George really likes her fuzzy little head and suggests everyone "pat the baby".
When Ruby was 3 days old George took her for "show and tell" at kindergarten.
Here we are at Oz Mex with Uncle Mike, Aunty Nat, Aunty Shani, and all the cousins.
Saskia is getting tall! She just turned 4.
Max and Royce have started to get up super early and go fishing sometimes. This one was too small to keep.
Here's George, who was taken fishing separately later that day.
George hopped in bed with Ruby one morning and fell back to sleep.
Doing tricks on the trampoline.
The transition program for kindergarten (called preschool in Canada) to prep (called kindergarten in Canada) has begun. Max walked George to the big kid school and George met his teacher for next year and did activities with this year's "prep" kids.
The Lindenow Primary School prefers kids to have an insulated lunch box to keep things cool. We went on a picnic to the park across the road, to test out the new lunch boxes. George is wearing one of Max's school uniforms. On a Saturday.
Just in the last few weeks George has rediscovered his bike.
George has also started to tie his shoelaces!
