A fun new thing we started this year for Christmas is the Christopher Pop-In-Kins story.
Link It's an Elf of the Shelf type of Story - Every morning (or at least when mom or dad remember) Christopher is hiding in a new spot. He's there as a special helper to Santa. He'll tell Santa Christmas Eve if the kids at that house have been good or bad. Reese enjoys looking for him each morning, and knows not to touch him or he'll lose his magic. We've tried using this little Elf to influence her behavior but it doesn't really work. We'll tell her "Christopher is watching you right now and he's going to tell Santa you're not listening to your Mommy." Does her behavior change - not really. It's still fun to have him in our house.
Every year the kids get a new Christmas ornament. We found this cute little sock monkey for Boston. I couldn't really find any 'Baby's First Christmas' ornaments that I liked - I think a lot of them are kind of cheasy and I'm kind of picky. Boston just giggles every pick him up to look at it. And yes, it has been a pain having a 10 month old around a Christmas tree. The lights, bells, and berry branches are constantly being ripped off. Our tree is looking more and more sad, day by day. The other day the light strand in the middle of the tree stopped working so we have this big un-lit hole. The top of our tree is holding up though.
Reese picked her ornament out this year. It's hanging on her very own tree in her room. She has pink lights, candy and snowman ornaments on her tree this year. She loves it! I wish her Hello Kitty ornament wasn't glass, but oh well it's survived thus far.
A fun new thing we started this year for Christmas is the Christopher Pop-In-Kins story. Link It's an Elf of the Shelf type of Story - Every morning (or at least when mom or dad remember) Christopher is hiding in a new spot. He's there as a special helper to Santa. He'll tell Santa Christmas Eve if the kids at that house have been good or bad. Reese enjoys looking for him each morning, and knows not to touch him or he'll lose his magic. We've tried using this little Elf to influence her behavior but it doesn't really work. We'll tell her "Christopher is watching you right now and he's going to tell Santa you're not listening to your Mommy." Does her behavior change - not really. It's still fun to have him in our house.
Every year the kids get a new Christmas ornament. We found this cute little sock monkey for Boston. I couldn't really find any 'Baby's First Christmas' ornaments that I liked - I think a lot of them are kind of cheasy and I'm kind of picky. Boston just giggles every pick him up to look at it. And yes, it has been a pain having a 10 month old around a Christmas tree. The lights, bells, and berry branches are constantly being ripped off. Our tree is looking more and more sad, day by day. The other day the light strand in the middle of the tree stopped working so we have this big un-lit hole. The top of our tree is holding up though.
Reese picked her ornament out this year. It's hanging on her very own tree in her room. She has pink lights, candy and snowman ornaments on her tree this year. She loves it! I wish her Hello Kitty ornament wasn't glass, but oh well it's survived thus far.
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What cute ornaments. And I've heard of that darling tradition with moving the elf around to different locations each night and always thought "I should do that" but now I HAVE to do it because that is such a cute elf. AND the kids would LOVE it. I'm glad you reminded me of it! Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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