"Elfie"

So last night, we introduced "Elf on the Shelf" to Anniston and Treyson (well, really just Anniston at this point). If you haven't heard of this, it is the CUTEST thing ever. Basically, Santa sends this Elf around Thanksgiving to your house, and you adopt him into your family by naming him and following the rules. The Elf acts as Santa's eyes to let him know whether you've been naughty or nice. Then every evening, "Elfie" (the name Anniston came up with for our elf) will fly to the North Pole to let Santa know how we all acted that day. He tells Santa if we followed the rules, said our prayers, helped eachother out, etc. Then each morning, we look for Elfie because he always lands in a different spot in our house.

Here's a picture of Elfie

Well, yesterday Anniston was pretty down in the dumps attitude-wise. She hadn't napped and she was feeling icky with her cough and snotty nose. So I asked her this morning what Elfie must have told Santa yesterday. She told me that Elfie told Santa she was naughty. I asked her what this meant. She told me that she won't get presents if she's not nice. So then she went to find Elfie and apologized to him and told him she was going to be a good girl today...we'll see!

Here's Anniston getting up close with our new Elfie last night....one rule is that you can't touch him....boy was that tempting!