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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 came running back to me, totally terrified. I had no idea what he was talking about at first and felt so bad that it scared him so badly. Fox on the other hand was not impressed. 

And that's a wrap! 

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