Dad's Weekend 3-D

Sleep

Elliott woke at 6am and had no naps today.

He went to bed at 7pm with no problems.

Food

Elliott had Rice Crispies for breakfast.

He had chicken nuggest, potato waffle, and some peas for lunch.

He had spaghetti with tomato sauce for tea with a yoghurt pudding.

Toilet

Elliott had no dirtiy nappies today.

He went to the toilet 3 times overall during the day to do a wee, including before his bath at Chas's house and once at Matt's house. 

Naughtiness

He was really good today and played very nicely with Reuben and Billy over an extended period of time - the only real naughtiness came between Reuben and Billy, but they do know each other very well.

Activities

We went to the Natural History museum first thing today where we met up with Matt, Reuben, Chas and Billy. We drove to Hammersmith, parked in the (really quite cheap) King's Mall car park and then got the tube four stops to South Kensington. Elliott really enjoyed the tube ride and was godo and careful on the escalators, though I was helping a lot.

While we were there I think we all enjoyed the dinosaur remains and the animatronic T-Rex very much. We also had some coffee and orange and went to look around the zone with lots of animals and a huge blue whale hanging from the ceiling. Reuben was very bookish and tended to listen intently as Matt explained the names of the animals, habitats, etc. Billy was the opposite and running around a lot without spending too much time looking at anything in particular. Elliott was somewhere in the middle and if something caught his imagination he would ask to find out more but if not was quite happy to move on quickly.

At the end of our visit we all went to the shop where we all bought some dinosaurs - Elliott has a Diplodocus and a Kentrasaurus and as one is big and one is small he calls them the Mummy dinosaur and the baby dinosaur.

Anyway it was a really great morning and there's still loads more zones, etc to see there, plus the dinosaurs and animals will always be exciting for quite a while I think.

After the museum we headed to Matt's house where all 3 had a spot of lunch before playing together really well. They played with trains, toy animals, chased each other around a little, did some puzzles, etc. Elliott was really well behaved and shared toys really well. He also became really fascinated with a keyboard and microphone toy and was practically rapping with it by the end of our time there.

Then we headed back to Chas's house for a few episodes of Chuggington over tea and then bath and bed. Again Elliott was really well behaved, very polite and nice to the other two and had no problems at bed time going to sleep. 

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