Rio

Sleep

Elliott woke at 7am.

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

He went to bed at 7.50pm, a bit later than ideal due to leaving Dave and Lucy's a little late, but he went straight to sleep without any talking or crooning at all.

Food

Elliott had Special K for breakfast.

He had half a jam sandwich, some raisins and some orange jelly for lunch in a kid's deal at BHS (I hid the wotsits from him and took them home for another day because of cinema snack earlier). But he requested and had a small bowl of Special K about an hour later as well after we got home.

For tea he had plain pizza with a few chips and some peas (we did 7) at Dave and Lucy's with Milly and Elsie.

He had some popcorn in the cinema during the morning for a snack (a special small "kids club" size that he shared with me) and half a clementine in the afternoon for a snack.

Toilet

He had no accidents today and a very smooth poo with some attempted wiping himself. 

Naughtiness

He was really good for most of the day. We had lunch in BHS in town and he asked for a jam sandwich but then proceeded not to eat it for quite a while saying he didn't like it. In the end I he ate half of it after I told him I wouldn't let him have his Lightning McQueen toy back all day unless he ate half of it. Weirdly I think he did like it when he started eating it (and I've seen him eat jam sandwiches before) but I think it turned into a bit of a battle of wills so I only tried a little to encourage the second half because I didn't want to get stuck in a cycle of reasoning for another 20 minutes or so.

Activities

In the morning after normal routine and some playing we went to the Vue cinema for kid's club showing of Rio. This was really good. The price was really good value (£3.90 for both of us) and they even did a snack deal of fruit shute and small box of popcorn for only £1.50. I spent most of the film watching him watching the film and he seemed transfixed for most of it. It was about 2 hours long and we went to the toilet after about an hour. When we got back he was a little restless for about a quarter of an hour (and it was also quite noisy in there at times), but he soon got back into it with some encouragement and questions about what had happened and what was happening. It was a decent film (maybe a little over long considering it's aimed at children), but lots of funny bits and some good clean action. But it was no Toy Story / Cars / Madagascar so it was good to see he was still really engaged by the experience.

After the film we went for lunch in BHS and had a wander around a few shops and he was really good and understood we weren't going to be "borrowing" any toys today, just looking. He didn't throw any strops or get disappointed when it was time to move on and he was really well behaved when he looked at the toys (he asked if he could hold some, but was always careful and always understood we had to put them back but maybe one day would get one as a present for Christmas / birthday / if he was good).

After we got home he was quite tired from walking I think (I had to do some "up" while we were out) so we watched a Thomas and played with some cars (and he had some Special K).

Then we went to Lucy and Dave's for tea with Milly and Elsie and also some playing in the garden which was really good, and he was really polite and played really well with Milly. Plus, even though he hasn't seen them for a while, he wasn't shy at all.

On the way to Lucy and Dave's we also stopped at Wokingham Tescos for a quick bit of shopping (I needed some milk so picked up a few other things). He was brilliant aroudn the supermarket and we pushed the trolley around together which was good fun and he responded really well to instructions (e.g. "lets park it over there for a minute").

Unfortunately we had such a good time at Dave and Lucy's that time ran away a little, so when we got back it was quite a quick bed time routine, but again he responded really well to the urgency and had a quick bath without complaint or stalling with parking cars, etc. So in the end we got to bed time story at 7.30pm which was good for tomorrow I think.

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