Baking chocolate chip cookies

Sleep

Elliott woke at about 7.30am again but with no interputions during the night this time.

Elliott had an medium afternoon nap around 1.30pm for about an hour and a half. However he was talking to himself for a while before it went quiet.

He went to bed at 8pm with no problems.

Food

Elliott had oats mix for breakfast.

He had sausage, mashed potato and beans for lunch, with a yoghurt pudding. He eat all his lunch apart from some of the mashed potato. He eat all the yoghurt with no problems.

For tea he had cheese biscuits with margarine and some garlic bread - plus another few satsuma segments afterwards.

He also had some biscuits during the day, including some we cooked together (see activities).

Toilet

Elliott had 3 "dirty" nappies today, all spaced out throughout the day and all of which were quite solid.

He sat on his potty well during nappy changes and before bath time but unfortunately back to no product. 

Naughtiness

Elliott had no time outs today and was really well behaved again all day, apart from some shouting in Tescos, but when asked firmly he stopped!

Activities

In the morning we went shopping around the big Tescos with Granny. Apart from some shouting at one stage he was really well behaved and stayed in the trolley. Apart from the shopping visit it was a normal morning of playing with various toys.

In the afternoon, following your example, we baked some chocolate ("chococalate") chip cookies. Elliott helped stir the mixture and add the chocolate chips. And he helped eat the finished cookies as well. He seemed quite interested in the baking, though did wander off a few times. Again there was also a lot of playing with various toys and in particular he got very into putting together the Thomas jigsaw, which he was getting really good at doing.

There was also quite a lot of reading books, where I would read a book to him and then he would "read" it back to me, remembering the basic sotryline and pointing out the content of the pictures, etc. This was really impressive.

Plus there was a lot of imaginative play today with Buzz, castle sets, aeroplanes, etc, some of it quite complex in concept with different toys talking to each other and interacting within storylines.

Finally there was a few episodes of Fireman Sam dotted around the day.

Keep also meaning to say he is getting really good at dressing and undressing himself which I'm sure is your influence but am trying to encourage as much as possible as well.

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