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Elf on the Shelf - 2020 Edition

Have you seen the pictures of all of these "quarantined elves" on social media? I can't say that I was even slightly tempted to quarantine our elf, because it's almost as fun for me as it is for the kids. At least for the first week or so...then it kind of gets old. I'm sure some of you can relate.  Here are some pictures of our elf adventures, we always start out on December 1st, but since Katie had the boys some of the weekends, our elf got a much needed break sometimes.  Sorry Finn! Finn was very good about not touching the elf. I'm not sure if it was because he truly understood that this was the rule, or because the elf intimidated him a little.  I thought he would either love this and talk about it for years to come, or Airplane the elf might have to go home to the North Pole a few days early because it was going to scare the crap out of him. What I didn't expect was that Finn would get out of bed without me knowing, walked into the living room and ca...

December iPhone Dump

December...always one of my favorite months of the year (along with October)! At the beginning of December we took our Santa pictures with our photographer and she always has this little sled set up in her yard, so I suckered the boys into taking one more picture with their mama. As you can see, they were both very happy about it...ha! I just showed this picture to Finn and asked him what he was doing there, and he said "Chubby cheeks".  Katie took Finn for his very first haircut and I was really disappointed that I wasn't able to be there for it, but she sent me lots of pictures.  He looks very serious, but she told me that he liked it and did so well. I tried to procrastinate his first haircut for as long as I could, because I feel like once they get one, they don't look like babies anymore. But I guess Katie couldn't stand his crazy hair anymore, so she took him in. Still my sweet baby! Mornings with this guy are my favorite. He's been super cuddly and swee...