The McKenzie’s Blog…

Well, Lisa had finally had her 5th birthday.  We’ve been hearing about this since her 4th party ended, and no doubt we’ll be spending the next year listening to how soon her 6th birthday party will be coming along.

The kids both had a great day today.  Lisa had to wait until about 1130 or so to open her gifts because we wanted to have the webcam on so Nana Shirley, Nana Carol and Grandpa Bob in Canada could watch the opening of the gifts.  The web cast went ok but next year I really must try something better, a proper Vlog sort of thing.

Some pics of the main gift opening from this morning

At around 5pm our friends all came around with their kids (Yang with Oliver and Olivia, followed by Stuart (her partner), plus Sam and Liz with their kids Tabbie, Ted and the as yet unborn baby to be ).  Yang and Stuart gave both Lisa and Emma a “Red Pack” a typical Chinese gift, a red pack with £10 for each of them.  Liz and Sam brought over a pair of Groovy Girls dolls.  We put Emma’s away until her birthday though.

Here are some pics from the party in the afternoon

You can see all the photos including a short video by going directly to the Flickr Photo Gallery.

Thanks to everyone that sent gifts for the kids.  Lisa really enjoyed them all and I’m sure Emma will when she gets to open hers too!  Watch this space for Emma’s birthday party results

Lisa turns 5 years old today!  Happy Birthday Lisa!

Love Emma, Mummy and Daddy

Waking up this morning it was a spectacular day out there.  Not a cloud in site and nothing but blue skies and Sun, but cool, 14C on the outside temp. 

I decided to take the kids to the Linton Zoo, south of Cambridge.  We’ve been there a few times before.  It’s a nice little local zoo.  We heard a talk about the tigers they have, the youngest one which is just over 2 years old will be sent to Sweden for breeding.  Apparently it’s quite common for zoos to pimp out their animals for breeding purposes

Here are some of the pics from today, see the all the pics at Linton Zoo Pics

Today was the first day of Pre-School for Emma for this year and the first day for Lisa in the “big” school.  Both were very excited to get back and see their friends again.

From this year Lisa has to wear uniforms to school.  That’s a good thing.. uniforms are pretty cheap and it means no fighting with her on what she can wear for the day   Well she can decide between the 2 official uniforms of the school so it’s limited choices.

You can see the rest of the pics here: Ready for School

Sorry, no pics from the school.. it was was chucking it down with rain today and couldn’t be bothered.

Today after I finished work, I decided I needed to get out for a walk.  Emma was sleeping and Yuki was hoping to get some sleep before she started work in the evening.  Lisa didn’t at all want to have a sleep.

So, I decided to take her with me.  The question was where too.  I decided to take her to Wicken Fen again.  We’d gone there before (Wicken Fen…) with Lisa’s school.  That visit was good for the kids but we didn’t really get to see too much of the place.  Today when we went back we’d ended up walking about 1.25 to 1.5 miles around part of the area.  Lisa had a good time but sure was tired.  Surprisingly she didn’t fall asleep on the way back home.

There are some pics and a video from the day HERE – here are some samples.

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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You can see the rest of the pics taken yesterday by CLICKING HERE

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Today was the first of two visits that Lisa will make to the Cottenham Primary School.  The kids from Pre-Schools around the area went today for their first of two orientation days at the “big” school.  They get to meet their teachers, see their new classrooms and meet the other kids that will join them.

We were given a form to fill out where they asked us to list 3-5 other kids that Lisa would like to have in her class with her.  Lisa was lucky and all of her friends were put in the same class.

Lisa checking out the class	Lisa and her “boyfriend” Connor
You can tell she’s gonna “own” the school	I think Lisa’s calling her peeps

You can click on the photos above to go to the gallery or CLICK HERE to see a few more pics from today