Walked at 10 months and said his first words.

Learnt to ride a bike at two.

Fell down the stairs at 16 months and got his first stitches on his forehead, the first of many!

Loves extreme sports, snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking….. anything that fuels the adrenaline.

This boy could never sit still!

He spoke his first words at 10 months, could do very simple sums at 18 months, told us he was going to be an astrophysicist at five, and even now in his 30’s loves everything about our celestial planets.

At five years he decided he did not want to eat meat anymore, not because he wanted to be a vegetarian but because eating meat at meal times took too long and he wanted to get out to play again with his friends as quickly as possible.

When we went as a family to St Georges Hospital in Tooting to be tested for Fragile X Syndrome Elliot was 8 years old, as all the other boys were being tested Elliot was told he would not need to give blood, however Elliot told the consultant, if my brothers are having a needle stuck in them so am I!

When Elliot was 11, I found quite a bundle of sweets in his room, when I asked where they had come from he admitted he had stolen them.  I then called our local ‘bobby’ who asked me to bring him down to the station where PC Kingston put Elliot into a cell and explained that if it happened again he would be in serious trouble.  I like to think that he never went off the rails because of the talking to he received.

He liked school but only certain subjects, art, maths, games, anything else bored him and going through his teen years Elliot was a bit of a nightmare.  He gained his GCSE’s and then went off to college with me thinking he was going to go to university.  At 17 he came home and told me he was leaving to live in Newquay with his best friend Mikey who had also lived most of his teen years in my house.  I asked Elliot why he was throwing his education away and what about university, his words to me were – you cant live your life through me Mum…… at the time I felt like he had slapped me.

So at 24 he rocks up and tells me his plans, he is going to do a foundation course in graphic design and then hopefully onto university.  I cried buckets as I just felt so proud and these moments live with you forever.

Elliot is in his 30’s now and yes he finished university and got his degree, and I was one proud mummy.  He met his wife at uni, Milly, and between them they are a force to be reckoned with.  Passionate about many things, and always has an opinion which I just love.

This man always delights and amazes me, he is just so loving and is great with the cuddles and has been a rock to me when I have desperately needed support, oh and he is gorgeous too.