He's Playing With My Toys!!!

We participate in elf on the shelf at our house. Kaylee named our little guy Thomas, after Thomas the Train and she adores him. However, every now and then the way I set up Thomas doesn't amuse Kaylee at all. This morning was a perfect example. I thought it was a great idea, she would say "Oh Thomas, what have you done?" and laugh like she normally does. Nope. Not this child.

She walks in to see Thomas sitting on her toy trucks and walks back to me in actual tears saying mom "Mommmmmmmm, Thomas is playing with my toys again and he never cleans them up!!! And what if he breaks one!!!"

Oh the joys of having an only child. They don't even know how to share with a magical elf sent straight from Santa. Geesh.

Elf on a Shelf - Snowflakes Made of Earwax

This is the first year we have participated in "Elf on a Shelf" and my daughter is fascinated with him. Last night he decided to make a snow flake out of cotton swabs on the kitchen counter. My daughter thought it was cute and couldn't wait to tell her friends, but apparently she cannot remember to call them cotton swabs or even q-tips. All day she keeps telling people that her Elf on a Shelf made a snowflake out of "ear wax thingies." I can only hope people figure out what she means and don't imagine a giant snowflake shaped pile of earwax on my kitchen counter.