Blessed by Two: Elfie Giglio

Elfie Giglio. That the name the kids decided to give our Elf on the Shelf. He arrived the day after Thanksgiving in Daddy's car bearing presents! The kids were so excited and thought it was hilarious. We immediately read the book about how we could never touch him or he would lose his magic. We also read about how every night he flew to the North Pole to deliver his observations of the kids to Santa. Each morning he was in a new place!

The kids woke up every morning super excited to find him. One of the first mornings he was on sitting on the toilet in the kids bathroom, which freaked Lorelei out a little bit. She was a bit nervous to find him each morning after that but still really loved the thrill of the find. They seriously got the biggest kick out of it!!

Some of the place Elfie was each morning: On the ceiling fan in the the two story family room, in the stocking, on the Christmas tree, in the refrigerator, relaxing in the garland, in the pantry, in Lorelei's Barbie house hanging out with Santa Barbie, in Paxton's room, in our room, so many places. Occasionally Elfie got a little wild and did some crazy things like: decorate the kids Christmas tree with underwear, eat all the Christmas cookies, dye the toilets green and blue and toilet paper the kids rooms! He also was nice bringing gifts too: Christmas hair bows for Lorelei and hot wheels for Pax, a Gingerbread house for the kids to decorate, new cookies packages for the kids after eating all of theirs (Paxton was most unhappy when Elfie finished off the Chips Ahoy Cookies).

We really had a good time with Elfie and the kids were old enough to participate and understand how it all worked. So here are a few pictures that I remembered to take of our month with Elfie Giglio (yes his last name is from the pastor Louie Giglio of Passion City Church).