Elf Antics

We don't have pictures of every day and I forgot what Elf did a few days :-)  But here's the rest of Elf's Antics...

/Day 11/
Rollin' round in a roll a TP!  Between Elf and Makenzie we go thru LOTS of TP.

/Day 12/
Elf found some lipstick!  'Ho Ho Ho!  Merry Christmas!  Love, Elf '

/Day 13/
Our little Elf snuck into bed with Matt & I!  Makenzie found him curled up on Daddy's pillow!

/Day 14/
What a sweet little Elf we have, he wrote such nice letters to the girls!

/Day 15/
Elf was playing with the cat!  He was found seated on the top of the Christmas tree dangling Boogity's mouse from some yarn.

/Day 16/
Someone was playing hide and seek!!  And must have needed a little cooling off.  Elf was found sitting in our fridge.

/Day 17/
Elf visited our little North Pole Village!  He certainly didn't look like an elf in our mini village.

/Day 19/
All in for limbo under the snowman ladder!!  Elf and Cuddles (her birthday build a bear dog) joined in on the fun.

/Day 21/
Oh boy!!  Curiosity killed the cat, Elf!

/Day 23/
Swinging on the Potty Chain!  (Poop chain just doesn't sound nice, but really, that's what it is.  When we were potty training a year and a half- two years ago she wouldn't poo on the potty.  She got a loop to add to the chain each time she went and it's been in her room ever since!  She's proud!)

/Day 24/
Elf's last day here!!  Have to admit, it was a good idea for him to take a bubble bath and get nice and clean for his trip back to the North Pole.  I'm a little jealous of a bubble bath, good book and some cocoa.

Makenzie said her goodbye and set him down in a chair by the fireplace.  See you next year!!

Our Elf is Here!!

Deer, was our Elf's name last year.  This year we've just made it real simple.  Elf!  Love the names kids give things!!  

/Day 1/

His first appearance at our house was actually in the car in Makenzie's seat!!  He was all buckled in like a good little Elf to head to the Christmas Lights Parade.  

 /Day 2/
The next morning Elf got into our monster loot of candy from the parade.  He had a WHOLE line of candy he was ready to gobble up and was happily eating a sucker while wearing a "Be Nice" pin and some sort of luggage ID as a necklace.  It was funny for a min and then Makenzie decided that the elf was really bad and needed to sit in the corner.  He got into candy without asking and made a mess!!  She did NOT want him around here if he was going to be getting into trouble!  (The Santa Clause is Coming to Town Song is getting to her... she was in tears one day...guilty conscience!  We now have a sticker chart to show her all the good things she does!)

/Day 3/
Thank you Elf for pointing out to us that we forgot a Fall Decor!  Miss Madison is SO good at finding things and was the one who found Elf way up there.

 /Day 4/
Makenzie wouldn't let me take a picture of Day 4.  Elf had found our goldfish and was on top of the tank peaking in.  (No our goldfish doesn't have a name.  It should.  I'm stinking proud of that thing. All of the fish I have ever bough... and I have bought A LOT... die... very quickly.  (Remember Makenzie's Birthday Fish that died before her party was over?)  On a whim, us girls were at the store one evening while Matt was hunting and came back with 5 goldfish.  I told the girls they would be around for the weekend and then have to go.  They all lasted a week.  A couple died after a week.  A couple more the next week.  And it's now been 2 months and the FISH IS STILL ALIVE!)

/Day 5/
This elf has a sweet tooth!  Very smart to get up out of Makenzie's reach so she wouldn't steal the sucker.

/Day 6/

Quietly reading some Christmas books.

/Day 7/

No pic... sorry. Elf snoozed happily under the tree!  AND under the cat!  :-/  It took awhile for the Elf to be found since the cat WAS happily sleeping under the tree.  

/Day 8/

Woot Woot!!  Early Christmas present straight from the North Pole!!  A boxed DVD collection of the Christmas Classics!  Good thing because does anyone notice that all the specials are on AFTER the kids go to bed!?!?  Drives me crazy.  Now we can watch it whenever :-)  

/Day 9/

Miss Makenzie woke up with Elf snuggled up with her in HER bed!!  Whoa, was THAT a surprise!  Guess he learned sleeping under the tree wasn't a good idea.

/Day 10/

Amen to this one.  It's December 10.  It's sunny.  I see grass.  A month ago I checked the extended forecast and it was winter... low low temps, no sun, snow almost every day, perfect.  It's been the opposite since Thanksgiving (which we HAD snow!).  It's been cold.  But sunny and no snow.  We have 15 days till Christmas... LET IT SNOW!!!