I had a feeling about writing "the Elf 2", so here goes:
The other day Colin asked whether I remembered why we called our Elf Cookie?
Me: Ahem, nooo?
Colin: Because we played Make Cookies for Santa on your computer last year!!
OMG, he is right! They let you choose a cookie, frosting, decoration and icing - when you are done, the cookie goes into a box which gets a stamp: to Santa
They even let you print out your piece of baking art. It's really neat, go ahead and try it! I especially love the confetti sprinkles!
Then Colin had the sweetest idea: why not ask the Elf to take the cookies to Santa over night? After all she's flying up there anyway?
No sooner said than done: he put the cookies in front of the Elf before he went to sleep.
The next morning the cookies were gone, and Cookie, the Elf, brought a note that said "Santa loved your cookies! Many thanks, Colin!"
On the morning of the 24th Colin got up early as usual looking for the Elf. I was half asleep and heard how he started opening and closing drawers and cabinet doors. After rummaging for a while he came back to the bedroom and whispered "Mommy, Cookie is gone! Wasn't she supposed to stay for another night? She didn't even say goodbye?"
What a joy to eventually find her sitting in the sled - next to two Disney cars! After ripping the packaging open and racing the cars around I said "poor Cookie, she is all alone in her sled now!" What did Colin do? Decided she may be hungry and put some - actually our only - Christmas cookies in for her.
Wait a minute: did I teach him that? Are you lonely, stuff your face???
One day - maybe sooner than I would like to think - he will hate when I tell him how sweet he was being to our Elf. For now I am enjoying how much he is into it!
Let's see the places he found his Elf in the mornings:
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| Sitting in number 6 of our measuring "tape" countdown. |
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| Here's five a day for you! |
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| Playing with Planes |
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| Important meeting with red M&M and Playmobil Santa |
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Who did Cookie call on the 13th..?
We never found out. |
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| Hiding out in mommy's bathroom cabinet |
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Slurping Colin's strawberry shake
He wasn't overly amused about that one
because he (thought he) knew that it was
the last one from the fridge ;-) |
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| Don't forget to brush your teeth! |
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| Scrabbling away |
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| Hugging the friendly gingerbread man |
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| Hockey Elf |
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| Gone fishing |
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| Cookie brought a Christmas tree! |
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| Thank you - blowing a kiss ♥ |
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| The Elf thought she had the last word |
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But then Colin told her she could take one of his
stuffed animals to the North Pole |
With our goodbye picture 2013 we let her go back to North Pole and look forward to welcoming her next year! With my declining memory I am glad I took pictures, so she won't land on the same spots in 2014 again. I might forget, but Colin won't!
PS: Remember how I said I didn't have a cute little bench for the arriving Elf to sit on? Just found this tutorial on how to make a chair.
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