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Yep, Elliot turns three today! Every time I create a post relating to the birthdays I always comment on how fast time is passing and it’s the same this year.

Yesterday we took him and four of his friends out to McDonald’s for lunch and it was a great party – no stress, no mess and the kids all really enjoyed it. Here’s a pic of him blowing out the candles on the cupcakes Vic made that had each of their initials spelled out in mini m&m’s

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Elliot must have been a wee bit tired last night.

Here’s the timeline that occurred yesterday:

15:30: Elliot is as grumpy as hell so Vic sends him off to bed for a nap

16:45: I get home early from work and head upstairs to bring him down

17:00: After 15 minutes of a stroppy almost three year old whining that he wants to go back to bed I put him in his PJ’s, clean his teeth and put him back into bed

22:00: I just know he’s going to be up early so I head off to bed

05:05: Elliot wakes up in a really good mood and he and I head down for some breakfast

Yep, into bed at 3:30 in the afternoon with hardly any lunch and no dinner – what a freak

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OK – so no update for a while but a lot of milestones and happenings in the boy’s lives

• We are now in week two of potty training for Elliot (second time around) and he’s doing really well. We are looking at about an accident every two days but it’s usually when he’s really busy and just forgets. The interesting thing is that he’s been dry at nights as well.
• In relation to this we had a lovely thing happen. Max and Elliot had got up one morning last week and wandered downstairs to play and watch some telly. Vic and I stayed in bed and about 15 minutes later Max came up and I asked him what he was doing. “Getting underpants for Elliot” was his reply and my first thought was “Oh God, what’s happened?” What had happened though is Elliot had said that he wanted to go to the toilet and Max had gone off and found the potty, taken Elliot’s PJ trousers and nappy off, made sure he was sitting properly and when Elliot had finished had come upstairs to get him some clothes Bless him
• Max has almost lost his second baby tooth – it’s so wiggly that I think it’ll come out in the next day or two. The amazing thing is his adult tooth that came through way behind his first lost baby tooth has now moved almost all the way into place!
• Max can now ride his bike with no training wheels! I took him down to the park yesterday morning and after a few times holding on to the seat he was off on his own and doing really well. After about 30 minutes at the park he was starting off OK, riding for at least 100 yards in a big circle back to me, braking with front and back brakes and turning pretty sharp corners! Later that day I took him down to a different field and he was going over rough ground that earthmovers had been using. By the end of the day he was doing circuits of the back yard and going up some pretty big bumps when moving from grass to paving. I’m so proud of him

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No news really. Christmas is getting closer and the boys are starting to get excited about it Here’s a couple of shots from this morning…..

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Hello from the lounge at LAX

Sorry there hasn’t been an update while I’ve been here (I got here 14 hours late) but my week has been mucho filled with training sessions, meetings and copious amounts of drinking….

I was looking through the photos on my camera and came across this one. Max had a party a couple of weeks ago that had a pirate theme. Naturally Elliot wanted to join in

Update to follow (probably)

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We tried Elliot in underpants for a couple of days this weekend. Great idea but a bit early for him I think as he really didn’t link wanting to pee with the action itself. Given that he had no idea what was going on we thought we would leave it for a little while longer. He was so proud of his Thomas underpants too!

The really funny thing is that that he looks quite similar to Max in the entry called underpants from a couple of years ago!

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I try to take photo’s, honest I do, and this is what I get…..

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I know I haven’t posted any photos for a while but here’s a couple of very crappy ones taken with my phone so that I had a couple on this trip. Haven’t they grown?

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