Last night was Elliot’s first night in his new room 🙂 And to get him to go to sleep in there, Simon had to sleep on the floor in there also 🙂  Vicky woke Simon (who obviously wasn’t actually asleep) at 10:30 to go to bed… Elliot slept through until 4:30am and was found on the floor at this time when he whimpered – he was promptly popped back into bed (Simon almost stood on Elliot at this time when he walked into the room to find him …. )

All this aside, he loves the new room and was asleep in no time tonight 🙂

The Cars theme bedroom for Elliot is under construction 🙂 We have bought a large set of wall stickers to have on one wall to be a racetrack with he Cars characters – looks very cool.

We have also found some wardrobes and drawers that are a similar colour red and silver to the bed which have little wheels as the openers – again really very cool.

So, we nipped down to B&Q and Vicky got some paint to pain the single race track wall and then a repaint of the existing colour for the other three walls.

We have organised some new icicle lights for the Christmas period, and as a test Simon has fitted two sets around the gazebo – it looks really pretty cool so we will leave them up for the time being.  We will certainly be making use of them on Wednesday night as we have bought a few simple fireworks for Elliot etc to enjoy, and the lights will help us see in the garden 🙂  Will post up some photos of the race track wall when we are finished – be a few days – poss next weekend 🙂

It seems that since the clocks went back an hour on Sunday (marking the end of British Summer Time 🙂 ) it has been just REALLY cold.  For example, for the past three mornings, Simon’s car had needed to have the ice scraped from the windows :-(.   This also signifies a point that Simon’s car is now sleeping outside – looks like it may be a permanent situation.  In fairness when the car is in the garage it is a pain to get around, and given that Elly likes to play in the garage, a few of his messier toys are out there (moon sand, paints and the like).

We took all of the furniture out of the 3rd bedroom on Sunday and had a general tidy of the stuff in there – ended up with two visits to the local recycle centre to dump several dozen pairs of shoes amongst other things – yes she finally let go of them – they have lived in the wardrobe in that room since we moved in – 51/2 years)

Elliot will be (before Christmas) moving into this bedroom so we needed to clear out the existing stuff.  So, the garage is full of the wardrobes etc and we are considering popping them on eBay just to rid our selves of them easily.

We built up Elly’s car bed – a really cool bed and he loves it.  Just need a mattress and other general bedroom furniture.  Hence will take up to Christmas to sort.  Disney Cars seems to be a general theme that we are playing with presently.

We wish you a fun filled day

The electrician came on Wednesday and fitted a new RCD – hopefully this will solve the power tripping several times a night.  Time will tell but here we are, 3 days later and we have had no issues thus far – keep the fingers crossed.

Simon has fitted electrics over to the gazebo so we are now all set for the Christmas lights in 5 weeks !!! So, we need to source some good lights now – may have found some at Costco but we’ll see.

We have also stripped out the furniture from the 3rd bedroom ready to start to migrate Elliot’s gear into it – it will ultimately be his bedroom.  So the garage is now half full of the cabinets etc – think Vicky will try to sell it on eBay.  We also bought a bright red sports car bed – so we have built it up and it looks awesome – just need a mattress and some bedding for it.  Suspect that once this is in place, he will be wanting to move in ASAP 🙂

Downside – the guest room is now full of stuff that was in the wardrobes etc, and we have many bin liners full of stuff to make its way to the tip / recycle centre.