The McKenzie’s Blog…

Lisa’s case of Chicken Pox ended about 10 days after it first showed up, and about 5 days later Emma broke out in them.  Emma was quite upset the morning Lisa woke with her spots.  Emma wanted spots too! haha she was upset that Lisa had something she didn’t. 

We kept telling Emma she’ll get spots too and she had keep looking for them and tell us as soon as she found her spots.  The day they came, she came running to tell us she’s finally got spots.  About 2 days later she stopped liking them

Emma can’t quite say “chicken pox”, it comes out sounding more like “chin chin box”.

All in all both of the kids have come through this pretty easy.  Lisa has only one spot that was on the verge of getting infected but I don’t think it really did.  It’s quite large and still visible, but it is going away slowly.   Emma so far only has one that looks like it’s going the same way as Lisa’s, but we’ll have to wait and see how it goes.

I’m glad both have gotten it now and it’ll be clear before they go back to school in early Sept.  It also means we won’t have to deal with this ever again.

On June 26 Lisa’s pre-school, Ladybird Pre-School, had a day out at Wicken Fen.  This is a National Trust owned Nature Reserve near Cambridge.

The weather couldn’t have been better for the day.. it was a little overcast, but that kept the heat down which was good.

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I’ve decided to start to use Flickr for my photos and videos.  I will keep the current gallery in place with the pics and videos we have now, but from now on I’ll be putting all new items into Flickr.

You can easily get to our Flickr page by going to:

http://flickr.uk-experience.com 

Here’s a new video of Emma, and more can be found in The Kids Collection on Flickr.

I also shoved all the pics from Mull up on Flickr as well, they are here

Isle of Mull – 2008 album.

We measured the kids today .. Lisa is now 108cm and she weighs 19kg. Emma is 86cm and weighs 12kg. 

The girls are both off school now until April 7 for the Easter/half term break.  The school is putting on an Easter Egg hunt party on April 26 and the girls will be going to that with their school mates and Yuki.  It should be good fun for them, hopefully Yuki will get some pics and we’ll post them to the blog.

The girls had a bubble bath tonight .. it seems daddy put way way way too much bubble mix in the tub.

Check out the other pictures and the video in the GALLERY

It seems that Emma likes to do a little singing. In the video you’ll see Emma singing to a song that she hears in Yuki’s car all the time, and it’s on Yuki’s mobile phone as well so gets to hear it from there too.

Ok, so her words aren’t good but she does keep up pretty well with the song and knows when to come in and and stop too haha that’s better then some singers today

Anyhow, here’s the video (wait for it to load…)

Download Emma singing

You can see her reaching for the phone from time to time .. she’s pushing buttons so the screen back light will come on again so she can watch the equalizer jumping around to the music. She also seems to have gotten a wedgie or something and is trying to get something out from under her butt.

Well, the first day of pre-school is over for Emma.  She had a great time apparently.  She wasn’t upset when Yuki left her there and was very happy when Yuki went back to collect her.  There was nothing said by the teachers so that means there no problems.

When I got home and asked Emma how school was she said good.. haha but then again she says that about a lot of things so it’s hard to really tell what she means.