This is our first year of the Elf on the Shelf Christmas Tradition, and we were very excited to kick it off on Saturday morning with a fabulous breakfast!!
Of course, 'fabulous' in our case didn't mean 'perfectly beautifully presented' - now that I see the pictures it looks pretty messy and thrown together!! But it was a yummy pancake breakfast, and was a lot of fun :)
Our elf, Buddy, was chilling out on a little Christmas platter, along with some little gifts he had bought from the North Pole :)
He had even brought a note for each of the girls:
Who studiously read them when they sat down...
The gifts were EXACTLY the same as the ones Maggie and I made for her cousins the other day!! - More on those in another post..
And he even bought a bauble to hang on the tree for 'Baby Brother'!!
On December 2, Buddy was perched on the star on top of our Christmas tree:
December 3 he had a chat to Santa - this one thrilled Maggie all day. She kept pretending she was on the other end of this phone call... :)
Day 4 he checked out our Christmas countdown:
(That photo above him is a newborn little Ana last year - Seeing it makes me so excited to have this baby!! :))
And then yesterday, December 5, he joined in the Nativity!
Buddy hasn't done anything super elaborate yet (obviously), or anything that involves food, like the cute ones I see on Pinterest! He has also stuck to high surfaces, because the 'don't touch' rule is really hard for a 1 and a 2 year old to obey, when Buddy is within reach!! But the girls are enjoying running out every morning and seeing where he is!! I think this tradition will get more fun as he becomes more of a tradition each year, and the children remember and expect him to be running around this place all December long :)
(You can learn more about the Elf on the Shelf Christmas tradition here :)
(You can learn more about the Elf on the Shelf Christmas tradition here :)
lol! I love the 'he's always up high' :)
ReplyDeleteYou know I'd never heard of Elf On The Shelf until this year? How have I not heard of such a cute tradition!
ReplyDeleteI love the girl's faces as they 'read' their notes! Do you remember how magical it felt to really believe in fairies and elves?! :)
ReplyDeleteThe game for me is watching you find 24 new places for Buddy to appear each morning! lol I know you are more than up to it :)
xoxo
I'm also with Mum - I was wondering how tricky coming up with new ideas would be :P
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like SO much fun! I can't wait until Hallie is old enough next year (she'll be about Ana's age) so I can do this with her!
I bet the girls are super excited. I can just see Maggie chatting away on her phone call all day :P
xo