Shops

General

Elliott was a bit testy for most of the morning today. Nothing very big in terms of bad behaviour, but quite a lot of not listening and procrastinating when having breakfast, getting dressed, etc. In the end it culminated in a time out at lunchtime because he was not sitting properly, not eating properly and began banging the table with cutlery. I gave him a few warnings and a count which was delivered with an explanation that if he didn't stop banging after 3 he'd have a time out. The time out itself was the kind that lasted 30 minutes, but I stayed very calm and patient and in the end he gave up and did a proper time out and also explained what he'd been doing wrong. After the time out and some cuddles and general "that's done now, lets get going" he was brilliant for the rest of the day.

Also, just to let you know, unfortunately I've left his Cars school bag at home by mistake. This is a mistake and I am sorry to forget this. It only has a few toys in it but it was an error and an oversight. Fortunately one of the reasons I can't do Saturday is that in the early evening before the poker night Mum and Dad are visiting for a meal with me and Andrea so they can bring it up with them now and I can make sure it goes back with him on Tuesday morning. But in the interim I apologise for any problems caused.

Activities

We spent the morning playing at my parents house. As described he was quite restless and didn't really concentrate on anything for any period of time, although we did play shops for a while with Granny and that went down really well and for quite a while. 

In the afternoon we came back to Reading and he watched Cars 2 and played some Sonic racing in the car. When we got back we did some winding down with some reading, car mat games and some Justin's House and he had a brilliant bed time.

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