December 2014 - Elf escapades

Say what you will about the Elf on the Shelf, but I admit to getting really into it and so does my 7 year old. The 2 year old thinks its humorous, but of course doesn't fully get it yet... next year will be the real challenge when she's into it, too and I have to keep up the creativity without repeating something! (seriously... how can the kid not remember what he ate for lunch today, but remember what the elf did 352 days ago???)

Our Elf, Zaphod, greets us the morning after Thanksgiving, so below is a compilation of our first two weeks of elfdom...

Day 1, the night of Nov 29: Zaphod made a North Pole breakfast. He got the mini donuts and a smidgen of banana bread, but the kids got real powdered donuts and real piece of banana bread. 

The night of Nov 30: it wasn't quite time for the calendar, but Zaphod went ahead 

and filled it anyway and left two tasty treats on top. 

The night of  Dec 1: Zaphod got this cool idea for putting bows all over the kitchen 

cabinets...thanks to Pinterest, I'm betting! :-) 

The night of  Dec. 2: He acquired some sort of robobug kit and tried to 

assemble it, but then left it for the kids to try. 

The night of  Dec 3: Pez sleigh... and there were Pez in the advent calendar this day, too. 

The night of Dec 4: Ever seen a Hexfish? Neat. Just drop them in and they swim like real fish! 

For like 5 minutes. 

Then they never work again. 

The night of Dec 5: Time to make a Gingerbread house!

The night of Dec. 6: Bubbles!!!

The night of Dec 7: With the balloons from the Dec 6th birthday party sitting 

around doing nothing, Zaphod took a ride!

The night of Dec 8: On the birthday morning, the bedroom 

had been toilet-papered and outside of the bedroom:

The night of Zaphod dangles from the attic string above (that star you see is a 

ninja star that the kiddo had made at school the day before)