SKELETON'S EYE

Ig's got a thing for skeleton's at the moment. He comes in the other day and hand's me this. I says, "What is it?" Ig says, "It's a skeleton's eye. I love you Dad." I had to get a tissue and dab gently at the tears of joy rolling off my cheeks.

SKATE OR DIE!

Boys got new skate decks a while back and have been grinding coping and shredding mad hand plant all over the gutters out front of the house. Problem was they both got the same deck "GOOD ONE DAD!" Milo liked his deck design but Iggy was happy for his first pro model after taking the drop at the local skatepark. He calls his deck :"SKELETON HULK!"

Fig.2: Milo about to feel the weightlessness of pure vert.

Fig.3: Iggy over the hip. Thrashin'!

Fig.1: SKELETON HULK - The Iggy Pro Model Deck.

Tim, Jo, Spike and X-Boy

Had Ed dog around on the weekend. Mad fun. We all watched Megamind. Mad movie. Then we ate a pack of Smarties each. Mad treat. Then in the morning we made some sculptures. Mad nerdy. PS. Where the heck is this Fig place? I've never heard of it and the boys won't tell me. Mad bummed.

Fig.1: Blueprint of Jo from Mars by Milo.

Fig.2: Blueprint of Spike from Avalon by Eddie.

Fig.3: Blueprint of Tim from Fig by Iggy.

Fig.4: Blueprint of X-Boy from Fig by Milo

Fig.5: Sculpture of Jo from Mars. "He'll crush your bones for fun." - Milo.

Fig.6: Sculpture of Spike from Avalon. "Spike can do ollies." - Eddie.

Fig.7: Sculpture of Tim from Fig. "Tim's cool isn't he dad?" - Iggy.

Fig.8: Sculpture of X-boy from Fig. "X-Boy eats swamp rats." - Milo.

Fig.9: Ed dog and Spike. Both from Av.

Fig.10: Milo and X-Boy. Go Fig!

Nobbie and Monstra

Milo got given an assignment at school. The assignment said, "Use your imagination to make up a character. Make up a home town for him. Draw him. And tell us a story about him. Do it by Tuesday next week or we'll whip your legs with a giant shoot of Bamboo." It didn't really say that last bit. Anyway on Sunday after skate lessons at Gromtown the boys and I sat down to come up with our characters. Iggy and I didn't really need to cause we don't go to school, but we decided to do it anyway. First we did up some blue prints and then we got our craft box out and brought our characters to life. Milo came up with a one eyed dude called Nobbie with a really thick black eyebrow. For your information he "DOES NOT HAVE EARS!" Unfortunately we had to reverse his colour scheme cause I stuffed up and and dropped him in red paint. Anyway Nobbie lives on Jupiter and eats poisonous gas for breakfast. Iggy made up a creature called Monstra. Monstra has fat legs and black claws. I don't know where he lives. Maybe he lives in Rose Bay? Anyway Monstra eats tomato sauce cause his body is made from a tomato sauce bottle. I made up a cyclops robot called Valentino Tokyo. Compared to Nobbie and Monstra it was pretty lame. So as soon as the boys left for school with Nobbie and Monstra I set Valentino Tokyo on fire.

Fig 1. Blueprints of Nobbie and Monstra

Fig 2. Nobbie and Monstra come to life

Fig 3. Milo and Nobbie, Iggy and Monstra

Fig 4. Nobbie, Valentino Tokyo and Monstra - shortly before Valentino's unfortunate incineration

VS SPIDERMAN

When Milo is on man, he is SO on. Check out this wild circle battle on the left. Man you would not want to be a square on that page. Your shiz would get totally rubbed out! And what about pot bellied Spiderman stumbling down the street after what looks like a mighty all nighter. GET A LIFE SPIDEY!

BEST IGGY DRAWING EVER

"This is Dino the monster. He eats everyone to make him stronger. He likes to jump on people. He's got lots of feet because he wants to fly but he's too heavy to fly so he has so many feet. He's holding on to Ninja Turtle weapons: swords, a rope, a lazer coming out of his mouth. Michaelangelo is trying to catch the pizza but he can't reach. He has faces and a tree too. Michaelangelo is saying "Pissa Dudes". He has sharp teeth because he's a dinosaur monster. I think this drawing is awesome because it's so big." – Iggy

Holiday List

Milo likes to know what's going on. "Let's make a list, Dad," he tells me. "Then we'll know what's going on for the week." I'm pretty hopeless as making plans so I was down with this idea. So Milo, Iggy and me sat down and planned out our week. First thing I wrote down was Sunday - Clean Room - which was met with a chorus of "BOOOOO!"s. Then I wrote "sausages" which was met with a chorus of approval. Then I wrote "Go to the beach" cause I'm always trying to get the boys to surf and once again I was "Booooo"ed out of the room. On Monday we decided to kick things off with some wrestles. One of the kids always ends up crying when we wrestle so I just thought we may as well get the crying out of the way on Monday cause Monday sux anyway. Tuesday is "Draw for the blog" day. Milo asked me if this blog was making him famous. I told him if he ends up playing for the Sea Eagles one day THEN he'll be famous. Wednesday is Taco night. Grandpas favourite food. I drew a little cowboy and Iggy drew a Taco for a hat. Funny guy. Thursday is hang out with Nanny and visit Oma in the home day. I don't know why that made Iggy think of surfing. Oma can't surf. Friday we decided to get Chinese and watch a movie. Milo likes "Juicy Brown Chicken" which I have never seen on a Chinese Menu ever and actually have no idea what he's talking about. Iggy likes Fried Rice. On Saturday we're gonna visit Eddie, go the movies, have some ice cream and kick something. Making lists is nice. It's nice to know what;s going on.