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Sleep

Elliott woke at about 7.30am.

He had a nap at 2pm for about an hour.

He went to bed at 8.00pm with no problems.

Food

Elliott had Special K oats flakes for breakfast.

He had sausages, potatoes, peas and raisins for lunch. Not huge joy with the peas but he did well with the rest.

For tea he had toast with marmite and I tried a banana, which I did get him to put in his mouth, but unfortunately it slipped back out into his bib and from then on he recoiled away from it in horror! I did try to get him to have another taste but I didn't want to make meal time too much of a battle ground so in the end I decided against using a time out for motivation.

For snacks today he had bread sticks.

Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy in the morning.

More sitting on the toilet at nappy changes and before bath but no joy today. He did make quite a cute noise when he was trying to squeeze a wee though before bath, but not sure how much that was for effect!

Naughtiness

He did have one time out today for not getting ready to go out quickly enough - we were onto the second "jus one more Octonauts" and I'd asked him to promise the one before was the last one. He was really disciplined about the time out though, and when he got down he said sorry and went straight to put his shoes on. 

Activities

During the morning Elliott wanted to read lots of books at Granny and Grandpa's before we left. He was patient and let us read all the pages to him. He also had a go at reading some of them back by using the pictures to make up his own story along the same lines, which was quite imaginative. His vocabulary seems to be increasing on a daily basis. We also had some fun with his pretend rubber egg with Grandpa.

I left with enough time to get back to Wokingham for swimming and I was hoping to take him but he was coughing a little during the night before and was sneezing a bit during the morning so I decided not to as Carnival Pool always strikes me as a little cold. Hopefully next Monday though. 

After lunch and nap we got out the Thomas jig saw at his request and he did the whole thing on his own with no help from me at all - apart from the odd bit of verbal help. He did this pretty quickly and I was really impressed (there are about 16 pieces and it's not completely straightforward). We also went for a wander around the park, but it did start raining so we made our way to Tesco's to get some bread sticks and have a coffee and fruit shute.

Before bath we did some alphabet cards, but he wasn't really in the mood so we got the trains out and had some races.

I think his cold is getting better and he's been a little snotty today so I hope that means it's coming to an end. So far after a few hours asleep I haven't heard him cough so I hope that's a good sign.

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