Daddy collected Elliot from school this afternoon as mummy was having her hair cut etc.  Mrs Forge (Elliot’s teacher) needed to speak to him about signing a consent form for some speech, language and group work that Elliot is going to being to receive as part of his education.  However, Mrs Forge also told daddy about how Elliot had received an award this morning in the assembly from Mrs Grunwell (headmistress).  It was for settling in at school so quickly and so well.  Mrs Forge was concerned that Elliot would not want to go and receive the award but NO, Elliot jumped up and pretty much RAN to receive his accolade 🙂 WOW – just wait a minute and let that one sink in !!!! WOW

Not to be the end of the story for today, the reception class AND class 1 AND class2 all got together for an hour or so this afternoon it seems and the teachers asked if any of the pupils wanted to sing to the rest of the classes….. wait for it…….Elliot jumped at the chance to sing one of the songs from their upcoming Christmas Concert… !!!!!! Again, WOW !!!!!

He is genuinely like a different child – it is really difficult to not get over excited about the really impressive changes that we are witnessing.

Even Oliver was OK with going to nursery yesterday – his nominated person, Lauren was there for a change to greet him so she did a great job of easing him in and ridding his tears – so we just slipped off and took Elliot to his classroom.

We are almost there with the bathrooms and kitchen with decision having now been made about the carcases and doors for both kitchen and main bathroom.  We have also chosen the cabinet tops and to be fair, there is lots of sparkle in all the tops and potentially the floors… 🙂  There is just a small spoke in the wheel in that the tiles we chose for the walls in the bathroom are apparently discontinued so we need to start again on that one 🙁

We have finally bled the brakes on Barbara and Julie and are going to head out with Timmy tomorrow morning to Sheffield to get started with the rides.  Elly and Olly are going with Grandma and Tyler to the Playstation in Ossett for a coupe of hours and lunch etc.

Please welcome our new family members – what a cracking line up…. 🙂

It seems (thankfully) that Max had a good night last night and even went for a little walk.  He has eaten and drunk this morning and it has stayed down – all goodness 🙂

We are awaiting a call at 4pm to determine if he is going to be well enough to come home today 🙂  Fingers crossed – Pepsi is still bemused as to where his mate has gone – however, it is now evident that the dog hair around the house is most likely just Pepsi’s – there appears to be no less dog hair finding its way around the house in the last 24 hours… 🙂

Update- we got the call this afternoon that all was well and that we could collect him at 4pm 🙂 So, he is now home and relaxing.  Pepsi was tres pleased to see him and while he was pleased to get out, he is clearly not yet himself – a couple of days and hopefully we will be back on track 🙂

Last night Max refused his own dinner 🙁 Then started pacing around a lot and ended up being sick outside a few times 🙁  Then he proceeded to keep us up through the night as he continued pacing and grunting at himself, occasionally popping upstairs to request garden access for the next installment 🙁

When he refused his breakfast we decided to take him to see his friends and Palmer and Duncan (the VET) right after taking Elliot to school.  Margaret checked him out and made the simple statement that there was something that she didn’t like somewhere in his abdomen and that he could not go home, an op was required 🙁 We were convinced that it was a sock or two (or maybe three) although he has always been able to get them out in the past…

So, we ensured that they had our latest telephone numbers and went home to a saddened Pepsi – was confused as to where his mate was 🙁

Anyway, Vicky called the vet up a couple of hours later to find that he was still in surgery although a sock had already been found and removed…

A couple of hours later, we found that he was coming round from his anaesthetic and that it was only one sock in the end.  Mr Duncan is to call us up later today to let us know more but that Max is staying out tonight and should be back with us tomorrow.

Good luck brown bear – see you soon buddy 🙂

We have had a really rather busy week this week – on Tuesday the Range Rover had a flat tyre when we went out to take the boys to school.  So we had to take them in the other cars.  It was raining, so daddy was very pleased to be having to take Tina out 🙁  Olly enjoyed the journey to school nonetheless, and it meant that Elliot requested the same means of getting to school the following day 🙂 Apparently being taken to school in Bobby was OK but Tina is the future.

Bobby went in to JCT600 Porsche in Leeds for service on Tuesday as well and has come out with an all clear – GREAT news as Simon was slightly concerned that we could have something looming around the corner.  Well, the fact that the battery in her is not a specific Porsche one is an advisory that we should consider – a small 280UKP item !!!! LOL

While we were there we noticed a stunning 2008 Boxster S Sport Edition in a sort of copper / brass metallic colour with sand coloured (embossed) leather.  A snap at just 25K 🙂 No sat nav so it was a bit of a non starter – Bobby has sat nav and is actually a very good car so there will be no replacing going on 🙂

The really funny thing was that we collected the car on Wednesday and Simon got a call on Wednesday evening from a guy in the sales department to see if we are interested in upgrading – can only believe that we were seen looking at the 2008 item and they are running a little low on numbers thus far this month…  Good sales tactics though 🙂

Thankfully Bruce’s tyre was repairable – the first time that this has ever happened for Simon – a 15 UKP repair rather than 300 UKP replace…

We are making good progress with a company for the bathroom, downstairs bathroom and kitchen although they are going to need to work significantly on their price if we are to go with them.  We also need to make more progress with other companies to see what else is available to us.

We took a ride out to York in Tina on Thursday given she was already dirty, it made sense to enjoy her. We confirmed that the heated seat in the drivers seat does not work so we will need to contact the warranty company to determine what they can do to repair it.

All of the cars have their correct registrations on now as well 🙂

Onto more important topics, Elliot is really enjoying school it seems although yesterday he had a little setback with one of the girls in his class wanted to play with him – although got a little rough and swung him around by his jacket.  He was worried (apparently) that his coat would rip and there were tears.  A little girl in the class above him brought him a book today as a present as she saw that he was upset yesterday  🙂 What a wonderful selfless thing to do 🙂 Thank you whoever you are…

Elliot is reading books that he brings home from school and has started singing to us – there is a concert in school at the beginning of December – we are looking forward to it already.  He seems on the face of it to be getting involved in things rather than sitting on the curbside as perhaps we might have expected.  He is really impressing us – great work Elly 🙂

Olly has decided that he does not want to go to school at all, and has begun panicking in the school car park as to whether he is going in to the school to stay each day 🙁  He has started lobbying at the beginning of the morning journey to persuade mummy and daddy that he does not need to go to school today…