Saturday, December 3, 2011

dasher minty returns

Friday night after Thanksgiving, the kids and I piled in the bed and watched the Elf on the Shelf special on tv. The kids went to bed wondering when our elf [Dasher Minty] would return.

They got up Saturday morning and thought it was just a typical morning. Banks decided to play something on the iPad when he got a clue that there might be an extra person in our house...

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He looked at the picture and tried to figure out where Dasher Minty was hiding. It didn't take long before they found him...

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...taking a marshmallow bubble bath in Mary Reese's Barbie doll bathtub.

Sunday morning he had rolled the tv...

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...and had written them a note about keeping their rooms clean, not fighting and using the potty. Mary Reese said he needed to work on his handwriting. We'll see if the note actually works!

Monday morning, we found him in the hall...

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He had written notes all over their pictures.

When we got home from school, he had moved...

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...and got the Christmas tree out. [Only about 1/3 of the lights worked when he plugged it in, which put me in the worse mood all week long! I am happy to report after adding 750 lights, our tree is lit and decorated. Hopefully it will stay that way until December 26th.]

Tuesday morning, he was having fun with Barbie, Ken, Stacie, Papa Surf and Steve Irwin...

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Wednesday morning, he made waffles for breakfast...

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Delicious & Delightful...and they tasted just like mine!

Thursday morning was December 1st. He got our advent calendar ready for the hanging of the first ornament...

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Friday morning we found him acting like a mummy...

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Today he brought back a whole bowl of candy canes...

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We are glad he is back. Not sure how much is has actually help out with our behavior. We are still working on some things.

1 comment:

Tara said...

Your elf needs to give our elf some tips on how to be more creative. Don't be surprised if Towns comes to school talking about what her elf has done and MR says, "oh my goodness, my elf did the SAME thing"...ha! Dasher Minty wins the award! :)