Christmas Day

Sleep

Elliott woke at 6.30am.

He had a long afternoon nap around 3pm for about 2 hours - a bit later than normal due to lunch and festivities, but he settled well.

He went to bed at 8pm with no problems.

Food

He had Rice Crisipies for breakfast (his choice).

He had traditional Christmas lunch - including turkey, sausages, roast and new potatoes and some sauces. However he did not try his sprout!

He had two slices of toast for tea.

He also had some chocolate biscuits during for afternoon tea as a special treat.

Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy. His nappy rash was much better and I used Bepanthen to help.

He sat on his potty well before bath time but there was no product. I didn't pursue the potty  as much as normal during the day because it was Christmas.

Naughtiness

Elliott had no time outs again today and was really well behaved all day, including in the Cathedral during the Christmas Day Service.

Activities

First thing in the morning we opened up the presents in the stocking left at the end of Elliott's bed by Santa - who had also polished off the sherry and mince pie left out for him by Elliott the night before. In the stocking were some cars, a boat and turtle for the bath, a cuddly snow man that plays jingles bells, a chocolate snow man (not eaten yet) and a wooden Santa. Elliott was good at unwrapping all these presents himself and was particularly taken by the cars which he immediately started playing with.

Then we had said Happy Christmas to Granny and Grandpa and had some breakfast and Christmas songs, before getting dressed and watching some Postman Pat / Christmas television.

Then we went off to the Cathedral for the end of the Service to help Granny who was steawarding. Elliott was really well behaved, though we weren't there much longer than 30 minutes. He seemed to enjoy everyone singing Hark the Herald Angels Sing and helped Granny with hymn books and general stewarding. We also went out into the cloisters as well during the quieter parts to run around with some other toddlers.  And after the Service Elliott met Cannon Jeremy Davies who was really pleased and interested to meet him.

Then it was back to Granny and Grandpa's to open the main presents. Again Elliott was pretty good at unwrapping his own presents and seemed very aware that these were presents for him. The main presents he got were a took kit (toy one) from me and a marble run from Granny and Grandpa. But he also got lots of books, some gruffalo learning and rhyming cards, a Thomas jigsaw, a(nother) little football, DVDs, more cars, some clothes, etc - from me, Granny and Grandpa and various relatives.

We set up the marble run and played with that until lunch which he seemed to really enjoy.

Then it was lunch during which he sat with us (on a cushion) and behaved really well - he even helped pull his cracker, though he wouldn't keep his hat on for much longer than a minute.

Then it was time for his nap.

Then when he woke up we played with the tool kit, the marble run, did the Thomas jigsaw, etc and had a lot of fun playing with lots of new toys. At one point, while we were looking at the books, he also read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to us all and it was very accurate (and very sweet).

To see photos of today visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/elliottsweekends/.