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Instead of Pictures this week I am going to show 2 cute videos.

Yes our floor is always this messy, I might sweep and mop and then 1 hour later there is stuff all over the place again, so really I don't do it that often because it just feels like a waste of time.

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Pajamas from Grandma Peters.

 This one is pretty explanatory, they are both bending over chairs to watch Sunday morning cartoons.  Kat's favorite cartoon is Chaplin and Co. a funny cartoon with no words based off of Charlie Chaplin humor.  I think she likes it just because there are no spoken words, being bi-lingual they watch cartoons in English and Greek but I bet it is hard for her to understand sometimes.  Now Nik is totally proficient in his bi-lingual skills and I love it when he explains to me what is happening, then I know for sure that he understands ( I do too for the most part, but I pretend ignorance and tell him he is such a smart boy!).  His favorite cartoon is Le Petite Prince, it's french, I think this will be the next language he learns, either that or Spanish.  I am so glad he got his fathers tongue for languages, because I definitely don't have one.

A good picture of me with out my double/triple chin showing, hehe.  Don't mind the grey hair, I have decided to grow it out, at least until summer time, we will see what I do then.  Compared to when I lived in Sacramento and would go see my hairdresser Jessica every 6 weeks, the last time I got my haircut was in September, whoa, at least I think that is the date.

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Nik turned 5 today.

 And Kat and Nik have been sick for almost 2 weeks.

 Hopefully we will continue school tomorrow.

Nik's 2013 school record 8 days in school
                                     8 days sick
                                     1 day refusing to go to school
Kat's 2013 school record 30 minutes in school, lol, she doesn't like it at all.

3-52 - And Mom's Christmas Package

Mom's Christmas Package finally arrived, I know that both she and I were getting a little worried, considering that she actually did not send it as a belated Christmas present and instead sent it in the middle of December.  But it was a big box and there was a kitchen timer inside, I am pretty sure the package was open at least once if not maybe twice, since it looked like it had been re-taped a few times.

The package, minus some fabric just for me, hehe.

The chicken timer under suspicion of being a clucking bomb.

 Arthur got a wine air-remover and 2 stoppers, Nik got an Angry Bird game and a dry-erase board and pens, Kat got a wand and several coloring books, plus some pajamas for the kids that match the items they got, Nik - angry birds and Kat - Hello Kitty.

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Magic Boy

Of course being in opposite world, Nik laid claim to the wand, for magic tricks, he asked me why it was not working.  I had to make quit the explanation about how it was a trick on the mind and that their really were no such things as magic wands.  MEGALO KOLPO (in greek) I hope this isn't like telling him there is no such thing as Santa Claus and ruining the rest of his childhood.

Bird Girl

Kat laid claim to the Angry Bird game, she likes to make the birds fly, even if she doesn't get the whole game aspect.
Of course now, 1 day later they are fighting over who gets to play with what.
Both children love the dry-erase markers and it has been a great help having 2 boards they can play on, one I bought from IKEA a year ago (from money sent by Dad and Rhonda-Kat is peeking through it in the picture above) and another small one that Mom sent in this package, so that way they don't have to share just one board to write on.

On a more not so happy note, Nik threw up on Wednesday night, Kat on Thursday night and then Nik again tonight, my rugs can't take to much more of this so I hope they get better soon.  It's all from going to school of course, Nik has had a substitute for the last few days and we talked to her about the fact that he comes home and says that the other kids hit him.  His normal teacher has told me that he is the one hitting, but the substitute confirmed that it was the other way around ( I really dislike the lying aspects of the Greeks) obviously the normal teacher does not want to have to deal with this issue and it is really pissing me off, there I said it, I feel better already, thanks for listening, that is if any one gets to the bottom of this very long post.

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Opposite world, this week Nik took like 8 photos and Kat didn't want to take any, she didn't even want to put on a pretty dress and normally she loves dressing up.  See Nik's 2 bottom missing teeth, he lost the second one 2 days after Christmas, it was loose before Christmas and listing to the side like Pisa and I really wanted him to let me pull it so we could sing "All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth", but he got scared and didn't want us to pull it.

I Love this Idea

The 52 Project, a photo a week, sounds so simple and yet it will help me keep track of time, because I really have no concept of the time passing.  Except to make sure I watch Downton on Monday night and Vampire Diaries on Friday night, those are really the only things I have "scheduled".
Otherwise everyday passes like all the others hang out with the kids all day, do a little cleaning maybe some cooking and hopefully some kind of crafting.
Go over to Che and Fidel to get the information and maybe I will see you in the coming weeks.

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Nik, not looking at the camera, sister just behind him

Kat, looking at the camera and playing with her favorite toy.

 My kids have this opposite thing going on, one will want there picture taken and the other won't or one will want to go walking and the other one won't.  Now you might think that it was always the same kid wanting the same thing but nope, they just like being opposite of each other.  Say Nik wants to go down to KokaRoka, but Kat doesn't, then I finally convince or bribe Kat to go down and then Nik doesn't want to go anymore, augh! So it should be interesting to see this year in pictures and count how many times I can get each kid to look and enjoy being in front of the camera, if I get a good picture of both of them together then I will definitely be posting that photo.