Mistras, Greece

We just arrived in this magical little pension in Mistras in the Peloponnese. So pretty and welcoming and a tad cooler than Athens which today was a good thing 😊

Ta-da! Pirate ship puzzle

Thank-you all for a lovely bday

Emma had a lovely and fun bday. Thank-you for all the cards, calls, gifts and fun! It is great to be 7!!!!

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Happy birthday Emma!!!

Enjoying Mykonos

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Messing around with Willou

Moustache or no moustache? 

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Animal love

Beach time on Agistri island

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Emma's early bday party tomorrow

Like many children born in the middle of summer, Emma wants to celebrate her birthday when her friends are still around... So tomorrow she will celebrate at her French camp with friends and William.
Her wish was to have a giant cupcake with flowers & butterflies. Here it is!
May you enjoy it my dearest Emma! It looks & smells yummy!!!

More stone painting with the kids

By Emma & William

Ouzo time

A beautiful new resident in our home

Relaxing creativity

I've taken up stone painting on pebbles collected at our local beach. Soooo relaxing and enjoyable!

Willou the builder

Interesting breakfast...

With an angel and a tiger... Yay! It's Summer time!!!!

Now Emma has really lost a tooth!!!

Such beautiful smile even without the tooth!

William cutting the onions...

(Play dough onions with Lollypops!)

Emma's Day off...

It's voting day today and so Emma's school is closed. We took advantage of the day and enjoyed some pampering and a delicious lunch together.

Soon minus a tooth

Here's Emma having juice with Mummy... This might be one if the last pics with both top milk teeth. :-)
Her top left one is starting to stick out it's so wobbly!

Send mail please

Dear Family (and friends),

Every day William wants to check the mailbox and regularly sighs and heaves with disappointment when Mummy or Daddy receive mail and he does not. "Oghhhh?! Why nothing for me?!" Of course, he couldn't care less that the majority of our mail is advertising or bills with the occasional bank statement, postcard or amazon order... He just sees mail. Which is not for him.

Today he was thrilled to open the mailbox and hear that the green envelope it contained was addressed to the whole family and that he could open it. (I had actually opened the mailbox previously, opened all the mail - including the green envelope - removed "parental mail", then scotched this particular envelope up again and replaced it in the mailbox for him to discover later...)

William is very curious. He particularly likes to know how things work. One of his favorite books is about where the contents of his lunch box actually comes from.

Recently he has asked me several times to explain how mail gets to us -and of course the post-cards we send to you (and sometimes to ourselves, now you know why...). He knows about the post office, the conveyer belts and computer-like machines that read addresses, the planes/trains, the bags of mail, the post-men (who don't wear any kind of uniform here in Greece) and now he expects mail to be delivered to him.  Every day. Quite naturally.

So here is a special request: Please send William mail. A post-card, a parcel, a picture in an envelope, a penny or a dried flower on a card... whatever fancy you may have. He will be over the moon to hear it is for him and will treasure opening it!

Thank-you!
(oh and of course Emma, as any self-respecting sibling, will inevitably be jealous so please send her something too!!! this would be perfect! In fact I might just try it out!!! )