carter

Our family was adopted by an Elf on the Shelf really late in the game this year. I tried to tell the boys it was because they are well behaved. Aiden's friends were reporting their elf funny antics during sharing time at school. Aiden at first seemed genuinely creeped out by the whole concept. Makes sense that you'd be concerned about the idea of an elf creeping around your house every night?! J wasn't too thrilled with the whole police state "he's watching and reporting back" deal - ha!  But there are fun parts of searching for him each morning and he was pretty tricky.  He was first spotted hanging out in the curtain right by the piano - Aiden was convinced it must be because he wants him to do a good job practicing - definitely! So thanks for the well practiced Xmas carols Carter!  The boys quickly decided to name him Carter Alexander using their middle names ;). He even showed up in the car and took the drive to Ohio with us. Aiden said he seemed to like finding snowmen and buddies to hang out with. One day his face popped out of a cereal box and another day he was found munching choc chips in the Dutch oven.

Don't judge that crapola cereal - we treat it like dessert and it has more vitamins and fiber than cookies ;). 

Extra spot for a photo through those cool laser etches glasses that turn your lights into gingerbread men in this case! They are so fun!