Elliott was really good at Truck this year. He did have one sulky moment on Saturday morning when we were waiting for Nick Cope to set up for his set in the Kid's Tent and he wanted to go back to the car and get our football to kick around and I asked him to wait until after Nick Cope had finished. However a few songs into Nick Cope's set he stopped sulking and moved to the front to enjoy the music with other children there.
Activities
On Saturday after school we headed to Truck after having a look at his school report. I told him that lots of it was good and said that when he tried he did really well and was doing well in all his subjects. We did talk about practicing handwriting over the summer and how it's good to try hard even in subjects that don't seem that interesting and he was responsive and it led to us talking about trying not to be put off by other people already being "better" at things because everyone develops differently and is good at different things. I used the example of him being on Stage 3 in swimming now already and how some of his friends wouldn't find swimming as easy to begin with but that practice and trying is really important. However after that and then making sure we talked about all the good things in the report again we focused on Truck.
When we got there he raced to the tents and spent a while playing in the tent and bouncing on the blow up airbed. Then we headed off into the Festival and sat in front of the main stage for a while and he watched the band a little while playing with Transformers. He was definitely more interested in the bands this year than previous years:
Then we made our way to the field with activities in it and the Kids Tent and he really enjoyed playing in the sand where he caught a shark:
Then we had tea and Elliott had a Festival burger which he declared "yummy":
Then it was back to the tents for bed time. He took longer than normal to go to sleep but once he was asleep he slept well I think. On Saturday we woke up to the sound of rain and the first part of the day was a bit damp:
We grabbed some breakfast at the tents (croissants and orange juice) and fortunately it then started to brighten up. We went to the Kid's Tent where we bumped into Al from the old Salisbury band and his son Zach. Elliott and Zach made blow football pitches with materials in the tent and then we all had a game of blow football:
Then Nick cope played a set which he really enjoyed once he's stopped sulking. Later on we bumped in to Nick Cope wandering about and Elliott let me take his picture taken with him:
Then as we wandered around we watched some bands and he asked if we could go on a big Helter Skelter that was by the main stage:
He also found the circus skills area and started playing with the equipment there. He really took a shine to the diablo and two boys a bit older than him (Tom and Joe) taught him how to start using the diablo:
Then we had bacon rolls for lunch before we went back for more circus skills and time to leave:
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