Rockhopper penguins

General 

We had 2 moments today that were a little fraught. The first was at breakfast time when Elliott was upset that there was no white sugar for his weetabix (we only have brown sugar) and spent about 10 minutes sulking and not wanting to try the brown sugar. Eventually he tried the weetabix with brown sugar and said it was still nice but not as good and then eat his breakfast and got ready for school nicely - so on the way to school in the car we talked a little bit about trying things before deciding they weren't nice and why sulking wasn't the best use of his own time for him. He also got upset at bath time because a Lego hat disappeared down the plug hole, but this was understandable and he cheered up quite quickly.

Activities

After school we went to swimming and he did really well and at one point looked like he was doing a pretty good front crawl with no swimming aids. After we got home he had more weetabix for tea and a sandwich before we watched a Deadly Pole to Pole about rockhopper penguins and sea lions. He read "I am Batman" at bed time really well and also said he was now on Turquoise books and I told him how good that was and how good his reading is.