Go the ‘Pies!

Mum took me for my first lot of injections yesterday… there was heaps, yuk! I felt like a porcupine after all those needles; last night was a rough night,  I tell ya. Check out those bandaids… ouch!!

 

Today was heaps better;  we went to Yia Yia’s to see my first game of Aussie Rules on her TV… Collingwood vs North Melbourne! Ya might have guessed I’m a Magpies supporter, much to Dad’s disgust

 

It was a great game, but ya had ta feel sorry for the Kangaroos… we sucked ‘em in by letting ‘em cream the first three quarters, then wham… we whacked on 44 points ta beat ‘em by 3 points, heh, heh

Prepack food!

Ya reckon my Dad’s pretty tricky? I do, and he does too, heh heh… but Mum says that she does the hard part, and we’re just takin’ the easy way out!

Tell ya what though, it’s hard work… wore me an’ Dad out

Finding Charles’s

I heard about another Charles Hyde over in WA, so a week ago I sent Grandma and Grandpa over to check it out and report back “tout de suite”. Turns out he’s Charlie Bartlett, my second cousin, and he’s quite a lad too! He sends ya all a big hug

 

His Mum, my first cousin, is pretty sweet… bit like my Mum (heart 4 u Mum) Elmo says hi too!

 

And by the way Grandpa… “tout de suite” means ASAP not a week later; don’t expect me ta refund your lavish expenses ‘til I get that report!! And if ya mention Great Uncle Dewi’s 50th birthday again, I might just dock ya some more… I know ya didn’t stay in a motel; ya stayed at Great Auntie Mel’s… and Great Uncle Dewi’s!

[Grandpa] “OK, OK… it’s a report already…
Turns out, grandson of mine, that you’ve got some competition. There’s three Charles’s, so far, just on the Hyde side of your generation… and don’t even start me on the Mavros side! But they’re getting it sorted… you’re Charles Darwin, then there’s Charlie Esperance, and Charlie Melbourne. I doubt you can afford much more of a report… See ya ” [/Grandpa]

40 days… +1

This morning I got to wear proper clothes… pants, shirt, socks (but no shoes ) When you go to Greek Orthodox church, that’s me,  well forty days after ya get here… you go and get blessed by the priest. But… me and Father Joel (we’re on first name terms now) both had a bad ‘flu yesterday, so he figured seeing as how I’ll probably live to about a hundred… God wouldn’t begrudge either of us one day to get better! 

Don’tcha reckon me and Grandpa are pretty flash in our (nearly) matching shirts?

Work, work, work…

A man’s work is never done… mowing the lawn with Dad, teaching Mum to read… it’s all go around here! I wanna be like Grandpa… just takin’ pictures all the time  

It’s a lawnmower, Grandma, I’ll show ya once more… ya just gotta push it here; it cuts the grass by itself!

Now repeat after me, Mum, yellow… yellow balloon on the left and yellow duck on the right… y.e.l.l.o.w… OK?

Pension?

Ya reckon I should sign on for the pension yet? I’m a month old now, so Mum even made me sleep in my own room today!! But… I got lotsa friends in there; a whole new family

 

In the evening, Cousin Themilis brought the timber over so Dad and Grandpa could finish off my shelves… yay, check it out!