You're very welcome

Sleep

Elliott had a nap of about an hour after lunch at 1.30pm as he was visibly tired after the morning and he went to bed with no fuss at all and seemed to want a sleep.

He went to bed at 7.10pm though was audibly awake for about 30 minutes after said good night.

Food

Elliott had Bran Flakes for breakfast.

He had fish fingers, potato waffles and carrots  forlunch and did really well with this apart from the carrots. He had a yoghurt for pudding. He also sat down straight away today.  

For tea he had toast with some marmite.

He had some fig roll biscuits for a snack around 4pm.

Toilet

Elliott had 1 "dirty" nappy in the afternoon 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.

However he didn't want to go to the toilet after his bath today. 

Naughtiness

He was really good all day today overall and very polite. For example when I thanked him for passing me his plate after lunch as I was tidying up he said "you're very welcome"!

There was one moment where he looked to be about to throw a strop when it was time to leave Monkey Mates soft play as he didn't want to go. However I asked him not to be silly, reminded him that I'd warned him we were leaving in 5 minutes and he'd agreed and gave him a moment to collect himself. Fortunately he did and then went straight to put his shoes and coat on so we could leave. 

Activities

We went to Monkey Mates soft play during the morning which is just down the road. He had a great time and even went down quite an intimidating slide which enjoyed so much he then did it again immediately! He was also interacting very nicely with some of the other children there and waiting his turn on the various apparatus, etc with no fuss which I was very proud of - especially as some of the others there were finding that more difficult! So after we left I told him how good he'd been and why and gave him big high fives and cuddles. 

After his nap we played with cars for quite a while, did his Thomas jigsaw, he "read" me the very hungry caterpillar and then we had a go with the alphabet cards. Then we popped out to a nearby park to play with a football and on some slides, etc.

When we got back it was practically time for tea and he chose Bob The Builder to watch for a while.

We also had quite a long bath tonight and did a lot of playing with turtles and boats during which he was hilarious but also very good at not soaking the entire bathroom.

By bedtime I think he was pretty zonked because when he "read" me the very hungry caterpillar this time I think he got it a bit mixed up with monkey puzzle and started explaining that the hungry caterpillar was looking for his Mummy but that the sausage wasn't his Mummy. This was extermely cute!

He also drank all the pink juices with his medicine in with no problem and was coughing visibly less, though still a little at times - though he is now pretty good at covering his mouth when he coughs.

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