Farmer Elliott

Sleep

Elliott woke at 6.30am this morning.

He had a nap of about an hour in the car after lunch as we travelled back to Wokingham.

He went to bed at 7.30pm though was singing to himself (very sweetly) for about 20 minutes after I left his bedroom.

Food

Elliott had Special K oats mix for breakfast.

He had sausages, new potatoes, and baked beans fopr lunch and did really well with this, and sat down straight away today. However he didn't want a yoghurt for pudding. 

For tea he had crumpets and a tiny bit of marmalade on them.

He had some big snack-a-jack cakes (barbeque) at 4.30pm as a snack.


Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy in the morning that was quite solid.

He sat on the toilet well during nappy changes and today he did a wee in the toilet before his bath.

He also asked to go to the toilet just after lunch as we were getting ready to go back to Wokingham and he did a wee then.

On all occasions he now pulls out some toilet roll after each wee and then puts it in the toilet after he'd finished but before flushing. 

Naughtiness

He was good all day today overall.

There was so delaying tactics in getting ready to go places (running into another room, "jus one more ...", etc) but not enough to warrant a time out as he responded to a 1, 2, 3 count very quickly each time.

I think maybe he likes to feel it's his decision with timings, etc, so am now going with a "do you remember you agreed we'd do x in 5 minutes, so now it's time to do x" (which he did).

Activities

We spent the first part of the day playing with bouncey balls, doing jigsaws and watching Peppa Pig. We also got out a farm with animals that I used to play with and he spent ages playing with this and was getting really imaginative (e.g. he'd say the horse was asking the cow if he could come into the house!)

Then we went to Tescos to do some light shopping and to have a walk about. I gave him the choice of sitting in the trolley or holding my hand and going where Daddy needed to go in Tesocs (only needed a basket for the shop). He went for the hand option and was really well behaved until just before the end when he did start trying to go in opposite directions. Anyway once I'd reminded him that it would be the trolley if he stopped behaving he was really good again until we'd finished.  

After lunch we drove back to Wokingham and once we'd arrived and he'd woken up we went for a wander into the park where there was a lot of running, racing and chasing!

When we got back we watched some Mio Mao (Channel 5 children's show about cats), read lots of books (though his attention span was on the shorter side so we didn't maange to finish any apart from Monkey Puzzle properly) and played with cars and a toy aeroplane.

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