Elf 2016

Here are some adventures of Hermie, our Elf on the Shelf, this year:

December 1st near the printer with a letter in the tray

2nd Spider-Man cosplay hanging from the dining light fixture

3rd a little reindeer dress up in Faith's closet

4th upstairs in the loft in the old entertainment center curio with science experiment gifts:

instant "snow" (like the filling in disposable diapers)

 

and a tree which grew crystals after a few days 

 

 6th brought a connect four game to play with Lion on the kitchen counter

7th built a treehouse in the family room

 

 8th had a run-in with the nutcrackers near the stove

9th was frozen by Elsa in the master bath

(he melted throughout the day)

11th did some work on the jeep in the playroom

15th spied on the kids using their bathroom from the back of the toilet

 

17th sitting on the piano and had brought a card game as a gift

22nd probably got in the Tooth Fairy's way when she was leaving money for Christian the previous night

23rd showed up in the coat closet with a pretty impressive Darth Vader costume (complete with glow stick lightsaber) and brought gifts of light up Christmas bulb necklaces

24th was playing a couple of holes on my desk

25th Bud woke up that morning to find a photo on his door:

He got to be twinners with Rudolph and Hermie!

I don't know what happened, but I didn't manage to get pictures of Hermie's adventures on the other days :( Not sure if it was phone/camera malfunction or brain malfunction! I did get this picture in January because one day our Elf brought this "growing" alligator. Buddy brought up our ten gallon aquarium from the basement and put him in water. It took a number of days, but he tripled in size!

 

As for the rest, I think there were three days that he didn't move, one day that he brought a cool tiny basketball game, another where he took a warm bath in the crock pot with miniature marshmallows instead of water (and even had a little rubber ducky in there with him), and one more that I remember where he put gift bows on all of our kitchen cabinets. Why would I stop writing in my journal app in November of 2016 when I had done it so faithfully for the two previous years??!! Don't worry, I started back up in January of this year :)