Mischievious Elf

I thought I would have a go at the Elf on the shelf craze at Christmas in hope it would help Ollie my 2 year olds behaviour but I actually had a lot of fun myself as some days the Elf left notes or presents or did silly things in the house. It's all a bit of fun. 

Here are my 24 Days with an Elf for Christmas 2013.

Day 1: 
Elf arrives with a letter from Santa, his name is Cracker and he decided to put up a few extra decorations (Mummy's handmade decorations of course).

Day 2: 
Cracker blows up Santa and snowman balloons and leaves a note asking not to be touched and for the boys to be good.

Day 3: 
Cracker climbed the Christmas tree to the top of the star, he left a note as he had witnessed Ollie being naughty to Joel so no treats were left. Cracker met fellow elf 'Sally' from HappyTots play group.

Day 4:

Cracker and Sally elf sat together on a shelf to watch the boys find a Christmas book each as a treat.They also got up to mischief during the night and played with all the toys and left a big  mess for Ollie's mummy to tidy.

Day 5:

Naughty Cracker and Sally Elf ate all the chocolates in the advent calendar and didn't hide the evidence but they did leave Ollie and Joel one chocolate each.

Day 6:Cracker and Sally Elf are getting so naughty, this morning they covered the lounge in toilet roll, but they did leave a little toy each for Ollie and Joel to make up for it.

Day 7:

Cracker and Sally Elf where found reading books to all of Ollie's Christmas teddies.

Day 8:   
We had the pleasure of Elf pant parachutes today and chocolate snowman dangling over the lounge.

Day 9: 
Cracker and Sally were found in the fridge as they decided to turn the milk pink and the eggs have faces - magic.

Day 10: 
It was Sally's last night with us so she enjoyed a marshmallow bath with Cracker, all clean for her return back to HappyTots Play Group.

Day 11:  
Cracker and our new arrival Dawn elf started a convoy of Ollie's cars and trains across the lounge last night.

Day 12: 
Cracker and Dawn had a little tea party with Ollie's teddies George and Bob.

Day 13: A New Colouring book was left for Ollie but Cracker decided to colour some in while sitting on Joel's new polar bear toy. 

Day 14: Cracker and Dawn elf made it snow in a corner

Ollie's friend Oliver came to play today with the boys and Dawn. Ollie did his usual mess making later on in the day with Dawn Elf.

Day 15: The elves got creative in the kitchen and made snowman biscuits.

Day 16: The kitchen got decorated 

Day 17: Dawns last night was spent creating a cosy brick scene - Christmas tree, table and seats to sit down to have a feast. 

Day 18: Chilling in the ball pit after all the hard work over the last few days.

Day 19: Big snowflakes falling in the hall 

Day 20: Cracker and Teddies get dressed up in Ollie and Joel's clothes and chill on the sofa watching TV while eating chocolate coins.

Day 21: Cracker and George the bear got musical with a couple of new friends.

Day 22: Naughty elf is back he wrapped all of the cushions and the mirror.

Day 23: Cracker got the glitter pens and crayons out to do some colouring and he left a goody bag for each of the boys.

Day 24: Crackers last day with us as he goes home with Santa tonight. He left the boys new pyjamas to wear tonight.

Until Next Year Cracker  

One Friday Left

Sleeping...yay!

Oh my I only have one Friday left being at home with my little terror. Only a couple of months ago I had tears at the thought of it, I couldn't bare it but the last few weeks have been very testing and it's made me wonder if going back to work will be a god send after all.

It will be nice to get dressed up and not get messed up by grubby hands for once and have a little freedom to be me again. I also need a break from saying no Ollie, don't do that, leave it alone...no...no...no Ollie.

Kidsworld

In an ideal world I would prefer part time so I have the best of both worlds as I do like to be able to go out when I like and take the little man to see and do things especially now he's heading for one he is interested in the world around him.

Yesterday we went to kidsworld which he loved. It was quite an eye opener for me as most of the kids there seemed to be with childminders but they were chatting and drinking coffee while the kids got on with it. No wonder they pestered me which was alittle annoying when I wanted to be with my child with "whats your name", "can you push me", "can you...." , uh leave me alone. It just made me think do we really pay silly amounts on childcare for the carers to just sit there nattering. I really do think Mummy and daddy really are best, so whatever the future holds for us I would like to avoid childcare as much as possible and work it between myself and my husband. 


As I start back at work my hubby leaves his work (redundancy) so he will be looking after Ollie the explorer until he finds himself another job which I reckon by the first or second day at home he will be longing to escape because I have a feeling he may just pull the rest of his hair out.