Grandpa's birthday

Sleep

Elliott woke this morning really early at 5.30am, having gone to bed at 7pm the night before.

He did have a nap as we travelled down to Downton after lunch and he was quite tired anyway from his early morning I think, so he fell asleep in the car for about an hour.

I decided to put him to bed at 7.30pm to make up for the nap and try and counter too early a start tomorrow morning but it will be interesting to see what time he does wake up!

Food

Elliott had bran flakes for breakfast.

He had sausages, chips and peas (not very many) for lunch with an attempted apple pudding (one mouthful that didn't stay in long!) and got on with eating straight away.

For tea he had spaghetti bolognese at Granny and Grandpa's house with a yoghurt pudding.

He had toasted tea-cakes as a snack around 4pm.


Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy in the morning. However he was also very unexpectedly and suddenly sick about an hour after this. It was entirely liquid based with some phlegm, and he seemed totally fine before and immediately after, so I wondered if that might be because of a build up of mucus with his cold.

He sat on the toilet well during nappy changes and before bath time - and he did a wee straight after bathtime when he asked immediately if he could do a wee wee on the toilet. So I spent some time explaining and encouraging him that he can ask like that even when he has his nappy on during the day. Hopefully this will help, but I also thought it might now be good to keep asking him fairly regularly if he needs a wee!

Naughtiness

No time outs needed today and he was pretty good.

There was some mind changing over whether to watch Peppa Pig or Postman Pat in the morning, but it wasn't very serious so I just stuck Peppa Pig on after the 5th time he changed his mind and he seemed fine with it.

Also at one stage he found a coin on the floor and started throwing it, but I explained why that was bad and, although he pulled some quite funny facial expressions, he took it on board, apologised and then very cutly put the coin in his trouser pockets!

Activities

Due to the early start we spent the first half hour or so of the day watching Peppa Pig (when she'd been selected.

Then after breakfast we played with cars for a bit and we were about to go to the park when Elliott was sick so I thought it would be better to stay inside in case.

So then we did some animal recognition with Gruffalo cards and books before cracking out the trains!

After lunch we went down to see Granny and Grandpa as it was Grandpa's birthday last week. When we arrived Elliott was in good spirits after his rest and he was brilliant with remembering to say "happy birthday" to Grandpa when he handed over cards and presents!

The rest of the afternoon until tea was spent looking at a book about changing seasons which has pictures that change, playing with his dog and monkey puppets (he did a full bedtime for his monkey puppet including reading him a quick story!), playing with his castles set, playing the piano, playing with his aeroplane, kicking around his ball, playing catch with his ball, etc. Basically he was in a lively but sensible mood and was great fun.

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