Surfer dude hair

Surfer dude hair
Originally uploaded by b boy.

Finally the mother unit has found something to put a bit of body into my oh so straight locks - Marriott pool water!
As you can see, I am a bit perplexed by the new do.
We spent the weekend down the coast at some conference for mummy - so Daddy and I got to swim in this big pool with lots of fish and lizards (ok, the lizards weren't in the pool)
Daddy bought me an inflatable boat to play with - now all I have to do is work out how to get a pool for home too.
Plotting, plotting plotting
Mwah!
G

Dinosaur birthday cake

Dinosaur birthday cake
Originally uploaded by b boy.

Here I present to you the father unit's latest birthday cake creation. It only took three days to make in total, which was enough to drive mummy nuts (or at least nuttier) and declare that this was the last time daddy was allowed to make a birthday cake...
Hmmm don't know about that.
Anyway, I had a great party yesterday, and got to spread green icing over all my friends, and mummy, and the red shag pile carpet, and the tiled floor.
And did I mention all the balloons? I like balloons!
Mummy and MIchael started deflating the balloons and singing in silly voices. Not sure if it was just because of the helium or if it was due to the amount of champagne imbibed.
Heh heh heh
I declare this week GRAYSON BIRTHDAY WEEK - as I am not officially 3 until Wednesday. Hopefully I can get some more cake mileage out of this birthday thing.
More updates soon
Love
G

Goodbye Bugs - Agnes Julia Wale 27/03/1923 - 26/07/2009

Breast cancer affects about one in eight women in Australia. I treat patients every day with the disease, and always have hope that together we will win the battle, and life will continue as close to normal as possible.

It has been hard for all of us to watch someone you love suffer from this disease, bravely struggle through the treatment options available but slowly succumb. The inevitable occurred today, but it does not make her passing any less painful. We will miss the adventurer who travelled overseas less than 3 years ago. We will miss our walks to Tallebudgera creek and back again, visits which usually involved a plate of pikies, friands and trying to stop Grayson destroying her Wedgewood collection. Mostly, we will miss her unconditional love.

It is with a heavy heart that we write this. We are glad you are out of pain now Bugs, Mama Pikies, Agnes - but we are going to miss you. We cannot live forever, but you will always be in our hearts.

Love always
Ben, Melinda and Grayson

Long time no blog - so here is a man in a funny hat...

"Things that mummy, daddy and Grayson have done this year" by Grayson A Cook (2years and 10 months - give or take a day)

Stalked Lance Armstrong and got his autograph
Watched Wendy get married (well, mummy and daddy did)
Go to a fancy champagne dinner and stupidly agree to photo being taken which ends up in a rather prominent place in the social pages of the Courier Fail, whoops Mail. And also ends up in prominent places where mummy and daddy work...
See Coldplay and have them play less than 2 metres away from where we were sitting, even though we were well towards the back of Boondall.
Say hello to baby Clara.
Try and eat as much chocolate cake at a party as possible before being thwarted by the parental units.
Get swine flu - well, it was probably swine flu... (responded to Tamiflu)
Recover from swine flu
Watch Daddy get dressed up in a silly hat and gown, go up on stage and then come back down again. At least there were cake options available afterwards (and the blue of the Masters matched Daddy's and my eyes rather nicely).
Get up early every morning for the past few weeks to watch Tour de France highlights on the SBS website - and start planning another trip to France next year (BIG maybe)

To be continued

Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island
Originally uploaded by b boy.

Waiting in the Qantas Club lounge to fly back to Aus from NZ. For those that don't know we came over (without G) for 2 nights so we could attend Wendy's wedding. We stayed on Waiheke Island which was very nice if not hotter than we expected. Felt guilty about leaving G at home so bought him the usual guilt presents to take home. Not long now and we will be back in familiar surroundings. Oh and from photos that Paul emailed from London, it definitely looks colder we he is compared to where we are now. I thought NZ was supposed to cooler than Qld!!

Final day of the TDU

Well we have made it to the final day of the TDU. We won't be watching the action today as we will be heading to the airport. But I will be getting updates on the iPhone :)
So it looks like Alan Davis will be the winner of this years race (barring any disasters). Lance of course has been doing his bit to keep the fans happy.
So what other things have happened this week? Highlights, or lowlights depending on your point of view include:
The PM gatecrashing the Hilton wearing lycra (just kidding ...... About the lycra)
Running into Stuart O'Grady's family in the lobby and his boy telling us his daddy's name is Stuie!
Grayson feeling up Mattie White's butt in the lift
Running into Phil Ligget and having a chat ....... well it was more like "Hi Phil!" to which he said "Hi, how you going?". I think that qualifies as a chat!
Getting one of the Astana team water bottles from one of the mechanics. As far as I know it could have been Lances ...... No, it must have been Lances!!!!!
Stalking Johan Bruyneel and taking his photo at every opportunity .......... I think I started to freak him out :)
And various other cycling related adventures.

I am blogging from the tram from Glenelg and when we get back will head out to the airport.
See you all back is Brisbane.

What a week!

IMG_0495
Originally uploaded by b boy.

Hello again, Grayson doing blog duty this time.
Things I have learned this week
- How to say the word "peloton"
- Ditto "Go Lance!"
- How to wack mummy/daddy/innocent bystanders with blue inflatable sticks that are just given to people standing by the road (provided bikes are coming soon after)
- One gets a much better view of things if one is seated on top of the father unit's shoulders
- I like motorbikes! (mummy edit - meep)
- When mummy and daddy go down to the bar in the evening for a glass or two of champagne, I like to keep them on their toes by running around the Hilton foyer, and up the stairs, and around the first level, narrowly missing (famous) cyclists and their entourages
Tonight I excelled myself by going to the bar's pool of water, splashing all the people around the pool with some water (well, it has been hot) and then repeating what daddy said upon picking me up and taking me away from previously noted soggy mess (freak, freak, freak)
It has been a lot of fun in Adelaide this week.
Back to Brisvegas tomorrow!