Monkey birthday mates

Sleep

Elliott had a nap of about 1 hour around 3pm as he fell asleep watching The Gruffalo and was very tired from his morning.

He went to bed at 7.30pm witn no problems and fell asleep quickly.

Food

Elliott had Shreddies for breakfast.

He had crumpets, baguette, squares and birthday cake for lunch. 

He had chicken, potato and beans for tea with a yoghurt pudding.

No snacks today as he had party food at lunchtime.

Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy around 4pm.

He went to the toilet 2 times overall during the day to do a wee, including before his bath.

Naughtiness

He was a little naughty in places today but he also had a lot of stimulation so it wasn't a surprise. We had 1 time out in the afternoon for throwing his toys at me. He did this well and explained to me why he was having a time out ande apologised at the end.  

Health

He coughed a little during the day and when he did it sounded quite loud. I gave him 3 doses of tixy lix during the day.

Activities

We went to Monkey Mates during the morning with Dave, Lucy, Milly and Elsie and the other Dave, Alice and Fi. This was really good fun and we did sometime inside, then had drinks and opened presents and then went outside into the playground outside.

Inside Elliott was a little less adventurous than normal - I think because it was very busy and there were lots of older children there bombing around - normally when we've been to soft play it's been less crowded. He coped pretty well, though at one point he did get a little upset when some older boys pushed him out of the way (I told them off).

After we sat down for drinks he began to socialise lots more with Milly, Fi and Alice.

Outside in the playground after drinks he was really sociable with the girls and had lots of fun with them. It was also less crowded with more space so I think he felt more comfortable anyway.

After Monkey Mates everyone came back to the flat and we had some party food, a birthday cake and did lots of playing with lots of different toys - including the new scalextrix which he has worked out very quickly and can control the trigger with real precision. At one point everyone watched The Gruffalo together which was really good as they were all asking each other questions about what was going on and interacting really well. At another point they all played different instruments together like a mini Arcade Fire or something.

After everyone had left he was really tired and then fell asleep watching The Gruffalo.

When he woke up we had a go at playing The Very Hungry Caterpillar board game which he didn't quite get, but did basically make up his own version. We also did some colouring and Milly had got the coloured button board out so he did some different pictures with buttons (getting all colours in the right places). Then we played with balloons for a while and he was catching them really well.

After tea we played scalextrix again for a bit before normal bath, milk, story and bedtime routine.

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