Elf is Back!!

December means ELF ON THE SHELF is B A C K!!!!!!!

Super Elf is his official name!

Each night Super Elf leaves our house, goes back to the North Pole and reports to Santa!  Then, when he returns he hides in a different location in the house!  Last year, he just hid in the main room!  The kids fight over who finds him first, don't tell me where he is, and get up way to early some mornings....just to find him.

Well, this year......

Elf has gotten himself into some messes.....

There's that cute little elf--in the kids' bathroom

But, as the kids said, "he trashed the bathroom".

Tyler and Paige were CRACKING UP--Jaden did not crack ONE smile!  Not one!

I asked him if he thought it was funny, and he simply said, "NO!" with a straight face.

Jaden, 6, is scared of Elf.

One night Elf hid on Jaden's shelf in his room. Elf had to be removed from

his room before he could go to sleep that night! (Steve used TONGS to remove Super Elf, so he didn't touch him)

The next morning I asked Jaden about Elf moving out of his room and Jaden said he couldn't sleep because Elf was staring at him. 

 Then, today, Jaden told me,

 "I had to pee really fast because Elf was in there!"

The rule is---from the book, not from us---that you cannot touch Elf or he loses his flying powers!  Well, our neighbor did not know this and touched him!!  YIKES!!!!

And, the next morning, Elf was in the same place! 

So, the kids wrote notes to Elf and left with him before church.

Much to our surprise...Elf moved while we were at church.

The notes worked!  Elf got his flying powers back!!!

Other funny things Elf has done thus far this year...

Fell in a popcorn bucket, head first....and stayed there all day!

Spilled a can of Sprite on the kitchen counter...and was sitting in the cup!

Elf is a highlight and adventure for EVERYONE in the family!!!