Lower Earley fun day

General 

Elliott was really good all day today apart from one moment when we were playing football with Adam and Adam's Dad at he Lower Earley fun day when Adam didn't pass and he got upset and took quite a long time to stop sulking (he had also kicked out at Adam as well, so I talked to him about that). He also got upset when we paid to have 5 bouncy slide slides and the man controlling it told him he'd finished after he'd only had 4 - but I had also been counting and Elliott was right not the man so it was understandable. I had a word with the man involved and told him he was wrong but he refused to let Elliott have another go (seriously?) so I pointed out that he was effectively then calling me a liar as well and we left - no idea why he was so jobs worth (and wrong) considering he was working with children. Anyway afterwards Elliott calmed down but said that he thought the man was naughty and mean so it gave me a chance to talk about how sometimes in life people can be mean and the best thing to do is to move on and try not to let it bother you because actually if you remain upset it's even worse and they should be ignored. I think he got this, but he also did want the police to go and sort the man out. 

Activities

We had a lazy morning playing with lego and watching television in our pyjamas.    

After an early lunch of Spaghetti Bolognese we went to the Lower Earley fun day that was in the same park as the one we went to after school yesterday (and I'd heard about it from the Mums then). It was organised by the Baptist Church but there were lots of activities (bouncy castle and slide, some animals, etc). Elliott had two goes on the bouncy slide (it was the second one with the problems), he had a look at the animals (snakes, lizards, a tortoise, a rooster, a rabbit, etc) , a fire engine came that he sat in and had a look around and we played football with Adam and Adam's Dad (Adam's Mum and Freya also there along with half of Hawkedon as far as I could work out). Sarah the child minder was also there so I got a chance to meet her, she seemed very nice and I'd say your right about Elliott being a fan - top choice for what it's worth. Isaac and his Dad also came so we said hello to them and did some playing. After the fun day we went to Wokingham where we were going to go swimming in Carnival Pool to familiarise for Tuesday, but unfortunately I got my times mixed up (again) so we went to the park for a while instead (I'm going to try again tomorrow afternoon!) After we got home we did some homework as part of this week's homework is writing a diary showing the fruit and vegetables eaten every day. Fortunately there were some chopped mushrooms and onions in the Bolognese so we could write those down, as well as him having 2 bags of Strawberry Fruit Flakes - he declared that he loves mushrooms by the way, we'll see how long that lasts! Anyway we did the homework by me writing the words down in pencil and him copying over them, except he got a bit bored so I helped by guiding the pen while he held it for some letters - I have no idea if this is ok, but it's all a bit difficult when he's really not in the mood and bit worried that forcing him to do work will also make it something he hates - anyway I hoped that doing that was better than nothing and he did do half the letters himself - am trying desperately to think of ways to make homework seem fun. Bed time was also very smooth and we had a bath bomb that made the bath water blue (shaped like a robot and fizzed as it dissolved) so that was quite good fun. 

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