The Adventures of Alastair-Boo, Gracie-Girl and Ewie-Boy

Hi Everyone, Its Ewan here today with a short special report on my big brother Alastair. Last week at his school assembly he was awarded his House Captain badge. He had to make a pledge in front of the school and me and mummy and daddy were there to see it. In fact the only person who missed it was Gracie who was off sick that day! So here's just a quick couple of pics of Alastair at the awards assembly.

Hello There People, Its Gracie here today. Just a really quick update for you. The BIG news of this week is that Alastair has been chosen to be HOUSE CAPTAIN at school. This is really big news. He had to prepare and deliver a speech to the year 5 and 6 students and teachers convincing them why they should vote for him. He did really well and was offered a choice of Assistant School Captain or House Captain. He chose the latter. We'll have some pics for you when he gets awarded his House Captain badge later in the month. Also, Alastair and I both got our trophy's for Little Athletics this weekend. They were presented by our local State member for Parliament. Here's a couple of pics for you (sorry for the poor quality pics - dad had to zoom in on his phone camera): Finally I just had to share this photo of little Ewan getting his hair cut this week - he's sooooo cute. We'll be back with more news soon. Bye for now Gracie-Girl

Hi Everyone, Its Ewan today, just giving you a quick update on life here in sunny Brisbane. Last week we went to the beach on the Gold Coast with Mummy for a few days whilst Daddy had to go to work. It was a bit windy some days but we still managed to have a great time. Our cousins were there for the week so we thought it would be nice to go for a few days too. The summer holidays have officially finished this week and its back to school for Alastair and Gracie and I have started at a new Kindy out at Mummy's work at the University. I told her I was pretty smart but still perhaps a little young to go to Uni just yet. Here are some pics of us just before we all left on Monday. Alastair and Daddy have been doing a lot of running recently. They do Parkrun every week, which is a 5km race. Alastair has been doing really well. He has won his age group (11-14) for the past 2 weeks and he is only 11!!!!!! He also got a personal best time last week by nearly 2 minutes s...

Hi Everyone, its Ewan here today. I thought it was about time we caught up on our news. It has been a bit busy over the past few weeks. We spent Christmas in Warwick. It was really hot but it was good to see Nana. The most important thing (and what i was most worried about) was that Santa managed to find us there. Luckily Gracie wrote to him specifically to tell him that we'd be there, and NOT at home this year. WE left him out some beer, caramel shortbread and a carrot for the reindeer, which they all seemed to appreciate. We got lots of exciting presents for Christmas but the biggest one was a giant inflatable water slide. We have played on it every day since Christmas because its been soooo hot. Mum and dad are terrified every time we got on it because they are sure there will be injuries. 3 crazy kids out of control on a bouncy water slide.... what could possibly go wrong? Between Christmas and new year we all went to the railway museum in Ipswich. I LOVE tra...

Hi Everyone, its Alastair here again today. There's been a slight delay in getting this blog post done as we couldn't get on to the website for some reason. Anyway, all seems sorted now, thank goodness, cause there's so much to tell you. Firstly.... WE WENT TO THE FIRST DAY OF THE ASHES!!!!!! So exciting. It was all very last minute, we didn't even try to buy tickets until the morning of the game but we got great seats at the Gabba. I was supporting Australia. It was good but very different to the cricket I am used to which is the BIG BASH! Its sooooo much slower and they don't play in the rain too! Mum and Gracie went to Townsville this weekend to see Susan and Family. That just left the boys at home to fend for themselves. On Saturday Dad, Ewie and I all went for a short run to get the paper with Caley-dog. Ewan was in the pram and he loved it. I did a bit of the pushing, which was better than having to run with Caley as she is just trouble when she ...

Hi Everyone, its Alastair here, the original blogger! Another big week in our house to tell you all about. Last weekend we had our Little Athletics carnival. We competed for the Mt Gravatt Little Athletics Team against clubs from the South-East Brisbane area. It was an all-day event starting at 7.30am. Gracie and I both did 5 events, from shot putt to long jump and relay races too. It was at the State Athletics stadium. We were pretty tired by the end of the day but its was good fun. Here's Gracie nailing the long jump.... Here is my attempt... And Gracie putting the shot.... Ewan had a big week this week too as he turned 3. This seems to the first birthday he has had where he has known whats coming and was REALLY excited about it. He got books, trucks, trains and much more. All his favourite things. He had a doubley exciting week as dad took him on a trip on the bus to the shops too. Ewan LOVES buses. All in all another exciting week. Its not lo...

Hi Everyone, Its all of us this time, Ally, Gracie and Ewan. Bonus!!!!!!!! We have all had such a big week that it takes all 3 of us to tell you about it. Alastair is going to start... This week I had my school music concert. I sang in the choir and I played a couple of songs as part of the senior strings group. I play the cello. Mum and Dad were so impressed with the cello playing - they said it was such a huge improvement on last year and sounded really good. Gracie is up next...... Hi All, I had my end of year dancing show this weekend. It was a huge day. I had to do 2 performances, one at lunchtime and one in the evening. I did 2 dances at each show, 1 jazz and 1 ballet. I dont have any pics of the show (we weren't allowed to take them during the show) but Dad did take one of me with my make up on. Alastair, Ewan, Daddy, Mum and mums cousin Anne all came to watch my concert. Hi Its Ewie here now. On Friday I went with daddy to get some more food for o...

Hi Everyone, Its me, Gracie. Your favourite blogger-girl! We have had another busy week. On Saturday we finally got back to Little Athletics for the first time in ages. We have had so much on lately (mainly birthday parties) that we hadnt been for weeks. It was really great to get back there. I got my certificate for my 4 personal bests (PBs)that I got the last time I was there and I managed to get another 3 PBs on Saturday too. On Sunday we joined Alastairs friend Oscar's family for a walk through Toohey Forest. It was really hot and little Ewan took his scooter along. Tonight was Halloween and we dressed up and went out with friends of mine from around the corner. I was a witch and Alastair was Harry Potter (again). Ewan didn't get to go as he is in Warwick with mummy visiting Nana in hospital. Well that's it from me for now. We will be back with more next week. I have my big dancing show this weekend so hopefully we will have some pics to sho...

Hi Everyone, its Ewan here today. I just wanted to share with you a photo of Gracie's birthday cake. She turned 7 on Saturday. She is sooooo BIG! Anyway, we all sang happy birthday and I (as usual) put my fingers in my ears as I don't like loud things. There really isn't any other news because its been soooo wet that we haven't been able to do anything. Everything has been cancelled. Luckily it was brighter today and it was hot too. Bye for now. Ewie

Hi Everyone, Alistair here with an update on the week - and its only Sunday morning, so its not over yet. 2 big things happened this week. Firstly it was my 11th birthday but I wasn't at home for it because of the 2nd big thing to happen this week.... School Camp! I got some pretty cool things for my birthday this year including a new scooter, some football goals for the garden, some new running clothes and some $$$$! The plan is to go and play crazy golf with my friends today but its pouring down so we will probably just go to Skyzone or something instead. On Wednesday year 5 at school set off for Mapleton, a couple of hours north of Brisbane for 2 nights on camp. I got to share a cabin with my good friends Oscar and Caleb. Oscars sister Genevieve decided to photobomb our picture as we were about to leave. We didn't actually camp, we stayed in small cabins. We got to heaps of exciting activities such as canoeing and rope slides. We travelled in a bus. My little ...

Hi Folks. Its Alastair here today. Just wanted to give you a brief update on whats been going on this week. On Tuesday night we said goodbye to Granny as she flew back to Scotland. We have had a great 3 weeks with her here and cant wait for her to come again. Tuesday was also our first day back at school after the  2 weeks of holidays (Booooooo)! So it really is a case of being back to normal again here. This weekend I went for a run with Dad - its great that his knee seems to be better and he is back running again. Caley-Dog is really pleased about this too. On Sunday morning we were all dragged along to Ikea as Mum and Dad wanted to get some new dining chairs. They say that us kids have ruined all the ones we had but other than a few food stains  they looked fine for me. Ikea was exciting for the first 20 minutes but then we had to try and entertain ourselves. A bit of clambering on the shelves in the warehouse did the job. In the afternoon Dad and I wen...

Hi Everyone, Its Gracie-Girl here again today. We have had a busy old week. We have been doing all sorts of stuff with Granny such as learning to knit, walking through the woods, swimming (but not Granny) and crosswords. Its been a really hot week - up to 36 degrees so swimming has been good! We all crammed into the car and went to Warwick on Friday night. This is where Nana (our other Granny) lives. It was a tight squeeze in the car but we have a 7-seater so we are really quite lucky. We also took Caley-dog with us. There was a Volkswagen Beetle car display in Warwick on Saturday Morning which Dad, Ewie and I had a quick look at. Whilst we were there a lady from the local paper - the world famous Warwick Daily News took our photo and it was up on their website later that weekend.  Link to pic Here's a screenshot: Before I go I must show you this funny pic of Caley and dad in the back of the car. I am not sure who looks more scared? Bye for now. Gracie...

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii everyone, Its Gracie here....... We have had a great week. We have spent a LOT of time with Granny, I am sure she's probably sick of all 3 of us by now. Mum and Dad worked as usual this week and Granny did the school holiday child-minding. This is a VERY hot weekend, it feels like summer, not spring. Its forecast to get up to 35 degrees, whatever that means. Today (to avoid the heat) we headed down the coast to the beach very early. It was so quiet on the beach and we had a great time walking down the beach, playing in the water and climbing on the rocks. Late this afternoon we all went for a walk in Toohey Forest with Granny and Daddy so that mum could get some work done. We saw some huge lizards on the walk, you can see one on the tree on the photo below. Who knows what adventures tomorrow will bring! Bye for now. Gracie-girl