The Adventures of Jingle the Elf

Jingle joined our family at the end of November to spend the holiday season with us.  So far he's been a pretty good elf, not too much mischief!

Night 1

we found Jingle climbing up our lamp

 

Night 2 - we had moved Jingle back to the fireplace mantle and he didn't move that night (oops!).  It turns out when you touch elves they lose their special magic which lets them fly to the North Pole at night.  Kyle read online you can use cinnamon to help them out, it's like vitamins to an elf.  That night we put a small bowl of cinnamon next to Jingle and it seemed to help, he was back to being his usual playful self.

Night 3

he decided to do some artwork on Leah's magnadoodle, even signed his work

(good penmanship for an elf)

Night 4

Jingle got into the flour and made a snow-elf...we don't have any snow here, he must be missing the snow and North Pole

Night 5

We finally got our Christmas tree up and I think Jingle likes it...he made his way to the top and we found him sitting in front of the star

 

Night 6

Jingle decided to take a ride on Jillian's reindeer

 

Night 7 Jingle got into the tinsel we have all over one of our small Christmas trees, but I forgot to take a picture

Night 8

Just hanging around

(and he liked it here so much he stayed for an extra night...)

Night 10

Jingle got himself into a bit of mischief with the toilet paper...silly elf!

Night 11

Jingle got out Leah's duplo lego and built a house and Christmas tree for the penguin...what a thoughtful elf

Nights 12 & 13

Jingle decided to snuggle into our stockings, he started out in Leah's and moved to Kyle's the next night

Night 14

Playing in Leah's kitchen, she was excited to find that he'd actually tidied up her toy food

 

It's been a fun 2 weeks so far with Jingle in the house...still another 2 weeks until we need to say good-bye, hopefully he continues to stay out of trouble!