Mr. Elf Shananigans, 2012

Mr. Elf made his appearance on December 2nd this year, and kept us entertained until Christmas Eve. The girls, Kaitlyn inparticular, had a BLAST finding him each morning, and found more humor in his antics than even last year.

Without further ado...

 Mr. Elf, 2012:



Arrival: Reading his Elf on the Shelf story



Bedtime story that night

First official morning. Kaitlyn and Austen thought this was hilarious :)

Kaitlyn's elf drawing



"Oh crap! Honey, could you run downstairs and move Mr. Elf before K goes down there?" Daddy's frantic placement.

Another Daddy morning. A mac n cheese throne!

Framing himself

Growing candy canes!

Photocopying his booty



Kaitlyn thought it was so cool that he had gotten into HER sock drawer and used one of HER socks for a hat.

And Austen, after seeing him in K's room the previous morning, was thrilled that he landed in the dollhouse in HER room the next!

I get many of these ideas from the internet, and this was one of them. I was going to skip it, but got desperate for an idea one night. The girls didn't know quite what to think...I just hope they aren't traumatized by magic elf pee.

He brought special peppermint kisses from the North Pole for cookies

 

My two cookie helpers...could they be any cuter?

He got into the cookies we baked -- yum!

Hangin' with his people...

Sleepover with the babies (sideways sleepover - oops!)

Yee Haw!

Kaitlyn thought this one was soooo funny. He hung their unders on the tree. Austen was not happy that he had taken her favorite purple flower pair.

He wanted a movie night with popcorn

 

And the finale: Mr. Elf colored the girls' noses red, and left them a CD to play. When we put it in the player, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer came on. Clever elf!

"KK, your nose is red." "No, YOUR nose is red!" Priceless ;)

On Christmas Eve night, Kaitlyn feel asleep with her head in her hands, staring at Mr. Elf (he had landed on her nightstand that morning). She was so sad to see him go. However, she got over it pretty quickly the next morning when she realized that Santa had been here. We can't wait for next December!

{We have fun with this particular Christmas tradition. The girls love it, and we love to see them loving it. This happens ot be one thing I do well at over this holiday...there are many other things that I DON'T do! ;) }