The other day I was about to do a post on Loady and his latest adventures, but I first logged into facebook to check out what was going on. One of my friends posted this link: http://peopleiwanttopunchinthethroat.blogspot.com/2011/12/over-achieving-elf-on-shelf-mommies.html <—People I want to punch in the throat – Over-achieving elf-on-the-shelf mommies

 

I read it, and after I stopped hysterically laughing, I realized that I might be in danger of getting punched in the throat. Yes, I do some crazy stuff with our elf, but I don’t make giant messes for myself to clean up, that’s for sure. AND…while I started off strong, I did a trick one night that the boys didn’t get…and didn’t appreciate, so the next day I gave Loady the day off and then he sat in the playroom for a week…and no one questioned it. So see…I’m only crazy like once or twice every 2 weeks! ;)

Here is the trick I did that the boys didn’t like so much (and said things like, “that’s it? no candy? he doesn’t have a job for us to do?” (eye roll). See…Loady replaced all the pictures at the top of the stairs with pictures of himself. They are still there because I haven’t gotten around to taking them out yet.

So then we gave him the day off

 

Loady isn’t our only elf…one day, Brady and Aiden played mommy’s little elves. That was a good day! They helped me stamp the Christmas cards….

 

…and make 6 dozen cookies for a cookie exchange!

 

 

This is just a cute picture of Brady thrown in for fun. This is him sleeping the birthday hat they gave him at school. He wore that hat for like 2 days straight!

Ok…so back to the elf. One night last week, the boys watched Home Alone 3. They were on the couch with Brian while I was doing stuff in the kitchen. I have never heard them belly laugh so much as when they watch those movies! Every time they see one, they want to start setting traps and doing crazy stuff. So…I was inspired and Loady came out of the playroom…and made himself a zip line from the top of the stairs down to the fireplace. Someone (me) had the idea to tape a long tinker toy stick to his hands and someone else (not me) had the idea to use a carabineer so Loady could go down the zip line all day long…and he did

I was actually sitting down to document Loady’s zip line adventure when Brady appeared in the office and asked me to dictate a letter to Santa. He’s got some crazy stuff on his list (like a golf club that hits 11 balls at a time…no, 100 at a time)!

Yesterday morning, Loady was out again and had jobs for the boys to do. Logan was allowed to dress up for the last day of school before break (they actually had a theme every day like jingle jeans – wear bells on your jeans, pj day and wear your favorite holiday colors day. The last day was pretty much anything goes)

 

I bought a small string of battery-powered lights to wrap on Logan. we ended up with them on his hat, but he had no pockets so we tapped the battery back to the waist of his PJs. It didn’t last long. He took them off, according to his teacher, during calendar…which I think is almost the first thing they do every morning. I worked his class party at 2…the lights were in his bag and not even working anymore. They were terribly shoddy and fell apart even before I got him out the door. Thought that counts I guess. Under his santa hat, his hair was 1/2 red and 1/2 green (thank you left over spray from Brady’s party)

This morning Loady was just sitting up in the highest living room window….chilling out. He climbed up there last night I think…around 1….when Brian and I got back from a fun dinner downtown with friends.