Snap, snap - crocodile

Sleep

Elliott woke at 6.30am.

Elliott had a nap of about 40 minutes in the car on the way back to Wokingham from the Living Rain Forrest in Newbury area.

He went to bed at 7.20pm and was out like a shot!

Food

Elliott had Shreddies for breakfast.

He had chicken burgers, potato waffles and peas for lunch with a joyghurt pudding. He ate it all apart from the peas of which he had 5, though he did feel the chicken burgers were fish fingers and was adamant this was the case! 

He had toast for tea.


He had buttons in the morning as a treat as we did a quick shop (I needed some more milk) - sorry, but he was so good and I made sure it was a very small bag and I really do promise I won't let him get accustumed to it. He also had 2 fig rolls around 4pm for tea.

Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy in the morning.

He went to the actual toilet 2 times overall during the day to do a wee, including before his bath, and was really independent. I think this would have been more but we were out for most of the morning and I did encourage using Sainsburys toilets but he wasn't keen (who can blame him!) 


Naughtiness

Really good all day today. However I think he's already beginning to push the promise thing a little so am going to use it less to make sure he knows when he promises he has to mean it!

Heatlh

He coughed a little again during the day and also some sneezing. Really doesn't seem all that bad and have some Tixylix I've been giving him. 

Activities

Because of still coughing a bit didn't think swimming was appropriate again today, but as soon as he's totally better looking forward to getting back in the pool.

So insead we went to the Living Rain Forrest in the morning via a quick sprint around Sainsburys. He was brilliant at the Living Rain Forrest and seemed particularly captivated by the big fish (Pacus), stingrays and and catfish (he learnt what they were all called, but not sure he'll remember!) Also for the first time there we saw the crocodile (it's a small one) which has been hiding last 2 times and I'd begun to question whether it actually existed. He was fascinated by it and it led to lots of snap snapping with arms, etc. There are also some kind of small, colourful grouse like birds there that wander about freely and are quite tame and he was a bit nervous when they came close, but handled it pretty well. At the end we went into the play area (lots of puddle splashing) and there were about 5 different primary schools there. He seemed pretty assured around them (I was right with him).

The afternoon was fairly typical but had a particularly musical theme. Lots of recorder (he calls it a trumpet) and lots of guitar as have got him a ZIng Zillas toy guitar (super reduced in Sainsburys). At one stage he asked me to play along with my guitar to his guitar which was great fun and then he went to get the drum and banged along to my guitar. And lots more singing!

Oh and also some drawing today - pictures of Charlie and Poppy, fishes and you. Again he was really keen for me to draw with him so we did a train together as well.

Finally on Friday at nursery they were saying it would be good for me to find a group of some sort to take him to some Mondays, which I agree with if you're ok with (in fact do you know any?) Basic thnking is that apparently he's really comfortable with Matthew, Fin, etc but sometimes less so with the bigger pre-schoolers so a bit more socialising with unknown faces may help. I thought about it a bit myself before after Alice's party when it seemed to take a while / chocolate for him to warm up. Plus for me I find it's always good to get out a bit and add some out the house fun to the day. I've had a brief look today and nursery were saying something musical might be good which would definitely suit me. Anyway can't find any Monday things yet, but will ask family information service at work and see.

Also (er, finally) don't know if you're seen but on front of our website there is an online parenting survey about child care, etc. Doesn't seem ideally suited to separated parents but if you fill it in you get free entry to either the Look Out, the Braknell swimming place or something else I can't remember. If you haven't seen it might be worth filling it in for a freebie?.

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