Sleeping Beauty

General 

Elliott was good for all of today apart from another time out at breakfast time as he was eating his cereal very slowly. Again he apologised and was good afterwards and finished eating.

Activities

In the morning we went into Salisbury and met up with Pete and Charlie Sladen for coffee. We all then went to the toy shop to look at toys for Christmas. He was really good in the shop and didn't complain once about not buying anything today. Then Pete and Charlie left and we had lunch.  

After lunch Andrea went home and we went to the Sleeping Beauty pantomime at Salisbury Playhouse with Granny as we were on the waiting list for return tickets and fortunately there were some. This was really good - very well written and enjoyable for all ages and similar to last year as no glitzy stars but good fun, good acting and catchy songs. Plus they made fun of Durrington as "exotic". At first he seemed a little shy and found an early song a little loud, but after 10 minutes or so he really got in to it. By the end he was singing, clapping, dancing, shouting and giggling along and was really engaged. His favourite character was the Royal gardner called Billy. We also bought a toy sword that lights up with his pocket money which he has taken a shine to.   

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