Last night, Elliot learned to play WALL-E on the Wii (thanks Auntie Jenny for loaning it to us) but also Mario Kart on the Wii.  He wouldn’t sleep because of his NEED to play on the damned Wii – mistake letting him play on it just before bed time daddy? hmmmm let’s think…. The poor little guy did have a little accident while racing though – couldn’t pull himself away from beating Wario.

We went shopping this morning and ended up buying a new Wii Wheel (steering wheel for Mario Kart) – it seems that we have already (at 2 days before his 3rd birthday) got to the stage of racing against each other in computer games 🙂

We played Wii again this afternoon, but no accidents this time 🙂

Elliot even managed to stop play to take on a #2, before continuing again… 🙂

We picked up Oliver’s new car seat yesterday (we have bought him on just like Elliot’s.  At the rate that he is growing he may well be using the damned thing really soon.

Elliot and mummy baked Elly’s birthday cake today – well, Elly got bored pretty soon, so mummy made the cake solo 🙁

Mummy and Daddy are sat, watching “Marley and Me” – very funny film so far – Pepsi and Max – so pleased they are a little older – they were definitely a lot like young Marley….

We had a great weekend – drove to Newcastle (we had to stop 4 times for Elliot to wee – pretty sure he was just testing out his new found ability to make the car stop whenever he wanted, by just statng the need for a wee wee :-)), played for a couple of hours in the giants den playcentre which was ace.  We then spent two hours in the Metro centre shopping centre.

We stayed in the Marriot right next to the Metro Centre, which  was really nice.  Had a pretty disastrous meal at TGI Friday’s – we walked down (2/3 mile so not a major drama), got most of the way through the main course, Oliver started to let us know of his state of displeasure, and then Elliot stated a need to visit the facilities for a number 2.  Unfortunately it arrived a little sooner than perhaps he thought and Vicky had wished for 🙁  Then, because of the lateness, Elliot was cranky as he was tired so he sat in Olly’s pushchair, and Simon carried Olly back the Hotel.  By the time we got back to the hotel, Simon had lost the feeling in his arm from carrying Olly – pussy !

We got all the way up to Edinburgh with needing just ONE wee wee stop and then made our way to the show.  It was not the TV presenters but was very well put together – Elliot was frightened of the dark in the theatre though unfortunately.  He got over it in the end, but we did have a few moments where he wanted to go home (as if it were just around the corner 🙂

Oliver LOVED the show – the darkness around hi with the contrasted bright lights and strange looking people in massive teddy bear type outfits had his attention pretty much the entire time.

We stayed in the APEX International hotel which was OK – wouldn’t recommend staying there but was OK – certainly no match for the cheaper hotel from the previous night.

We set off for home on Monday morning at 9:30am and the plan was to stop at the same play centre in Newcastle on the way home – BUT both boys were asleep, so we took the opportunity to keep heading south.

 McDonalds on the way home and we ended up at home just around 3pm 🙂

Today, Elliot has found the Nintendo Wii and has had a GREAT time playing WALL-E and Mario Kart. We suspect that we will be playing more games tomorrow 🙂

It is 08:50, the car is almost packed, and we are shortly heading out to go to Newcastle upon Tyne ready for the first leg of the trip to Milkshake! live show in Edinburgh tomorrow afternoon.

Elliot has had two totally dry days now in a row – he is really picking up on the underpants now – this morning, he came downstairs and while daddy was getting his breakfast ready, he removed his own nappy, had a big wee on the potty and asked for some Thomas underpants !!!

On our way out now – see you soon….

So, Elliot is now through his third day of wearing underpants, and while he has had a few accidents, he is doing really really well.  He has been to nursery today and did not wear nappies while there.  He has also delivered a #2 in the potty this evening.  Mummy and daddy were really pleased when this occured.

Oliver is back to normal now and is smiling away when daddy comes home – he slept through again last night which is GREAT news – we were definitely beginning to worry about a new schedule that perhaps Oliver was priming us for 🙂

We are booked to go and see a Milkshake! Live show in Edinburgh at the weekend so will be heading up there on Saturday or Sunday.  The daddy has a week vacation next week so we are hoping to do a few days out – like a train ride out etc.

Simon got home from VMworld (San Francisco) late on Friday evening.  Elliot seemed VERY pleased to see daddy – even more pleased when the presents came out.  Even Oliver smiled when he woke up to see his daddy’s ugly mug – Vicky had said that it was the first time he had smiled all week 🙁

Poor little soul has had a bad week this week it seems – Vicky took him to the hospital at 2am on Thursday morning – he had a temperature of almost 40 degrees Celsius = not good at all.  Anyway, with calpol plus stronger paracetamol, he is pretty much under control now thankfully.  Since Simon has got back, we have endured two nights of being up 4 times and then 2 times in the night – apparently this is WAY better than before Simon came home 🙁  Poor Vicky has not really got more than 45 minutes of continuous sleep for almost a whole week….

We are definitely on the mend now, and so we went out yesterday to Sheffield and daddy and Elliot when to Monkey Bizness with Granddad (who just slept the whole time 🙂 ) while mummy went shopping with Grandma and Oliver and went to see Debbie (one of Jane’s friends from University) who Vicky has only just re-located via facebook (or one of those other web 2.0 things).

Today is a pyjama day for all of us – and Elliot asked to wear underpants and not a nappy this morning 🙂 It is only 2pm presently and he has only had one accident so far – plus a sprinkle before he could get to the potty.  We are really pleased and very proud of him to want to crack on with it.

We are trying to plan out what to do for Elliot’s 3rd birthday the week after next – that’s right 3RD !!!! where did the time go?

Simon has finally broken and signed up to twitter – he can be found at @SimonARust – missed out on his usual user name since somebody else already had it….Can’t be THAT many Simon Rust’s in the world can there? Vicky would certainly suggest there could only be ONE 🙂 or should that be 🙁