Elliott was very good today. He did get upset at Harry Smith's birthday party as after climbing on the climbing wall higher than his own height he then looked down, got scared and froze. After the instructor had got him down he was quite upset for about 5 minutes so I gave him lots of cuddles and we went outside to get away from the climbing and find some distractions. This worked and when we went back he joined everyone else again and happily did a different exercise climbing sideways rather than up.
Activities
In the morning we went to Farley Hill primary school's fete - this is Harry Jenkins' primary school. We went with Andrea's parents and her brother and their family. We watched a display by the cheerleader after school club and then we heard the choir sing. Harry Jenkins in the choir so he was singing and they sung two songs which were good. After the singing we looked around the fete and Elliott went in a fire engine, won a bubble blower in a lucky dip, scored 2 out 3 goals on the penalty store and won a big balloon and temporary tattoo and had a burger for lunch. There was a riding school there with two ponies so he had a go riding a pony while Harry Jenkins rode the other pony and he enjoyed the little walk around. He also enjoyed watching Jack have a go riding on a pony afterwards:
After we got home we wrapped up Harry Smith's birthday present and wrote his card and then headed off to his party at the Reading Climbing Centre. Unfortunately we got lost on our way, and delayed by some bad traffic caused by an accident so we were half an hour late arriving. However he soon got kitted out and had a go at climbing. As stated above he got quite scared during his first climb but it didn't seem to dampen his spirits too much and he did really well having another go on the sideways focused exercise. I also told him he was really brave giving it a go and had done really well if he was scared:
After the climbing they all had a pizza tea, some crisps and Harry's Mum had made a chocolate fudge birthday cake. Adam, Charlie, Josh and Isaac were all there as well as Harry and his brothers and some other boys and Elliott had lots of fun. After we got home there was just time for bath, the end of "Fantastic Mr Fox" and a bit of iPad before bed time.
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