The Christmas Season has begun!

I can hardly believe it's here already, but after a lovely Thanksgiving we started all our fun Christmas traditions!  We put up our tree and Kaia's been enjoying re-decorating it ever since.  Daddy did a great job and put lights up outside this year!  We were the first on the street to be festive too!  Whoo!

A new tradition we started was our Elf.  Yep, I got sucked into the Pinterest craze of "Elf on the Shelf."  I didn't exactly like the book and the way it's kind of used to threaten kids to be good for Santa.  But I found this blog entry from "Following In My Shoes" about how she incorporated Jesus and the true meaning of Christmas into their elf.  So I modified the letter a bit and did it the same way!

Our elf showed up on our doorstep with the letter from Santa while we were decorating the tree.  Kaia gave her the name "Candy Cane".  So Candy Cane the Elf has been up to some silly things since we've had her...

Day 1: Tea Party

Day 2:  Driving with Ken 

Day 3: Flour-Snow Angels 

(getting ornery)

Day 4: TP'd the play tree

Day 5:  mmm..Syrup!

Day 6:  Making Snowflakes

Haha... so far its been a lot of fun!  In the beginning, since I did not follow the book where they introduce the idea that if you touch the elf they lose their magic, Kaia knows its a toy.  So the first few days she says, "Mommy what did you do!?"  I laughed it off saying "what a silly elf Candy Cane is!"  Today was the first day she laughed at what Candy Cane did (w/the snowflake).  The syrup day kind of backfired because she wanted to drink syrup too.  But I explained only elf's can do that.. :)

More Elf Adventures to come...