Blast off

Sleep

Elliott woke at 6.30am.

He had a nap in the car for about an hour and a half.

He went to bed at 7.45pm and went straight to sleep.

Food


Elliott had cheerios for breakfast.

He had cheese on toast with a yoghurt pudding for lunch.

For tea he had chicken nuggets, potatoes and beans (though he didn't eat many potatoes).

He had a biscuit for a morning snack.

Toilet

He had one accident today in the car during the journey, but I think this was while he was asleep. So we changed clothes and dried the seat cover under a dryer at the nearest motorway service station. 

Naughtiness

He was really good all day apart from one incident in the morning. We went for a wander while we were waiting for Vicky and Pete to wake up - to a nearby park and home via a corner shop. In the corner shop he was adamant that he wanted chocolate but I wouldn't let him so he started throwing a strop and getting pretty distressed. This lasted for a lot of the walk home until I stopped and made him sit down on a bench until he'd calmed down - not really as a punishment time out just to help. It worked pretty well, though when we got back he seemed upset again for a few minutes - but much easier to distract back in a house.

Activities

Before Vicky and Pete woke up we went to a nearby park after breakfast for some fresh air and fun. This was really good apart from the chocolate incident in the cornershop on the way home.

After they'd got up "Great Uncle Jim" and Tim came to visit and Elliott was in his element. He was showing them all his cars, running and jumping, playing cars with them, etc. As well as doing some pretty advanced conversations. He also really wasn't shy for very long with the new arrivals. We also went out into the garden for some proper running around and chasing.

After lunch we left and stopped off in Leicester on the way home at the National Space Centre. This seemed to capture his imagination (there were lots of space rockets, films about space, etc) - although qutie a bit of it was aimed at slightly older children I think. However they were having a special lego event with lots of space ships and space stations built out of lego on display and he loved these. We also bought a toy space shuttle ("space ship aeroplane").

After we got home there wasn't really much time before tea and bed - but he was really well behaved on the journey again and I think enjoyed his trip to the north.

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