Renovation Update 2

16 Jan 2011: Our "office" is completed. It features a red counter-top mounted on 2 kitchen cabinets and a drawer unit for an office desk made for 2, and a custom-made window seat. Still to come will be a sofa bed and book shelves, probably all from Ikea.
Del's room is almost completed. She only needs a closet organiser inside her closet and her stuff, which are still in boxes. We are in the process of finding spots for all her things which she is currently using. Only when these things have been put away can we then unpack her other items - mostly novels and handbags. For her bed, she is using her aunties' canopy bed (Daddy & Auntie Laurie used to use it as a 'jungle gym' when they were little). She also inherited her auntie's 2 dressers, desk, dressing table and night table.
The night we moved her mattresses into her room, 3-year-old Dyl requested to sleep by himself in his own room. He insisted on moving his bed there but mum and dad stalled. Finally after 2 days of stalling, he got his wish and moved into his own room on 10 Jan. He has been sleeping in his own room, by himself since then. The cute bit is he usually tells mum this when he is tucked in bed, "You go to the toilet, then change into your pyjamas and go sleep with dad. I will sleep in my room and Del will sleep in her room." Mum will then asks him, "Don't you want me to sit with you until you sleep?" His reply, "No need," so off goes mum, out of his room ... only to putter around upstairs hanging laundry or doing some light cleaning. Meanwhile, you hear this little voice singing to himself and talking to his soft toys - Puppy and Penglar. Fifteen minutes later, he is off his bed and at his door, "Mummy, can you keep me company?"
The other night when mummy was busy, daddy accompanied him to bed and literally gassed the poor boy's room. Mummy walked into the room just as he was telling dad, "You can go to your room now, dad. I can sleep by myself. See the bed is so small." Daddy sits up, looks at mum and mournfully says, "I've been banished because ..." Mum looks at dad and replies, "No wonder. I was wondering why his room was so smelly."