Does “Elf on the Shelf” visit your home? This was the first year that he made an appearance at our home and we are having a blast getting to know Ollie and seeing what antics he’s been up to after we wake up each morning.
The evening we set up our Christmas tree he arrived with his storybook and by the next morning he had toilet papered our tree. On the second morning we discovered that he had turned our milk green!
Since then he’s taken over our basketball game making slam dunks…
Got into the candy canes (which he kindly decided to share with the kids)…
Replaced all of our new stockings with undies…
Created a “sugar” angel…
Hid in our cupboard…
And raided the candy jar.
Even our black lab, Willow, is obsessed with him (as you can see from the bite marks in poor Ollie’s head!)
Due to Willow’s excessive show of love, the “don’t touch Ollie or he might lose his magic!” rule quickly changed to “only mom can touch Ollie each day to move him safely back to the top of the Christmas tree out of Willow’s reach!”
Ollie has added a LOT of fun to our Christmas this year and I know we’ll enjoy his silliness all season.
