Fireman Elliott

Sleep

Elliott woke at 6am.

After lunch on the way to Monkey Mates in the car Elliott had a nap for about 40 minutes.

He went to bed at 7.30pm and went to sleep quickly.

Food

Elliott had Weetos for breakfast.

He had toast for lunch with a bite of banana.

For tea he had a burger, with potatoes and peas and a yoghurt pudding.

He had a biscuit for a snack in the morning. 

Toilet

He was brilliant with toileting today but there was no poo all day.

Naughtiness

He started off a little naughty this morning. We were watching Thomas after breakfast and when it was time to go he was very stubborn. So we had a proper time-out on a naughty step (steps are back!) and it took ages. He kept moving to a non designated step for the time out and there was a lot of unnecessary whinging noises, so I kept moving him back. In the end it took about 15 minutes before he gave up and just had his time out.  

Activities

In the morning we went to Reading to pick up some black out curtains. We also looked at some toys, though I made a point of not buying anything, but telling him if he was good for a few weeks I might buy something he liked. And we visited Starbucks for some elevenses and he was really well behaved and chatting away!

After lunch and some alphabetting and train tracking we went to Monkey Mates. He had a really good time and was much more confident than last time we went, though stopped short of the big slide - I coaxed a little, but didn't want to force him, though got the impression he might have been down it on a previous visit with you? Anyway other than that he was all over that place and was really sociable with lots of the other children there. Outside there was a Fireman Sam fire engine (in style of little tykes car) which he waited for patiently and then hared around in for ages when it was finally free. We also had a go on a tractor with pedals and he was getting the hang of the pedals, though I think found them quite difficult. All I'll say is that compared to some of the other children there he was really unselfish and well behaved!

In the evening we played with trains a lot and did quite a bit of reading. We also watched a few episodes of Thomas.

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