Free kicks

General 

Elliott was really good today. He got upset twice in football, but only after the actual session had finished and we stayed behind for a bit to mess around with Charlie, Adam, etc. And both times he got upset were understandable (Tyler high-jacked his penalty turn and Adam was know it all with him in a quite a sanctimonious way when he thought a free-kick meant he got to kick it 3 times). He calmed down quickly both times and afterwards we talked about thinking "they're being naughty but nevermind I'll take some deep breaths and then get on with it". He's also been quite good at letting me put Vaseline on his sore lips over the weekend - he started off being very against the idea but now he's quite good at holding his head still and letting me put some on and I've been applying after meals.

Activities

He got up at about 7am and we had breakfast and played with cars before football. We also got his first watch out and we talked about how to tell the time - in terms of the big hand and the little hand and he started talking about which hands pointed at which numbers. He also picked up that 10 minutes is 10 times counting to 60. Football went really well, even though we were 5 minutes late and they'd already started (an unexpected road closure). He did heading and shooting really well and also did three really good passes in the game at the end.       

After lunch we watched some Sonic and then he asked to go and play football again so we went to Cantley Park and kicked a ball around for an about half an hour before playing on the play equipment there. After we got back we had a Roast Pork dinner that he ate very well - he also tried a green bean and mashed swede, though he didn't take to either, but we praised him for trying them both properly. After dinner we did lots of reading (3 school books) and he did really well with these before I read to him (he chose Planes tonight).