Posted in: JOURNALING | PROJECTS  This year marks the start of a new family tradition in our home. I asked my son nearly 3 year old son, Landon, if he would like one of Santa's elves to visit us every day until Christmas. He nodded, completely unaware of what was to come. My husband. Mike, and i asked him this same question over the course of the day to reinforce the idea and cause some excitement. We knew he would think the elf was cute, but we honestly weren't sure how much of the concept he would pick up on. Regardless. we wanted to embark on this magical journey as soon as we'd been introduced to it! After running a day's worth of Christmas errands, we returned home with the news that Santa was sending one of his pixie elves to our house very soon! There was a book waiting for us that gave insight into our future house guest. I read it to Landon, making sure to point out every picture of the elf i could find. If nothing else, I wanted him to at least recognize the elf when he saw him in person. The book told us that our elf would visit at night when we were all sleeping and be waiting for us in the morning. He would not be able to move once someone was awake, nor would he be able to speak. But he could watch and hear all throughout our house. Then each night, as we fell back asleep, our elf would report back to Santa with all sorts of happenings from the day, especially news of Landon's good (or bad) behavior. If Landon was good, Santa would leave gifts for him on Christmas eve, and take our little elf with him until next year. DECEMBER 7, 2013 | We had a function to attend tonight, but told Landon that when we came back home there might be an elf there waiting for us. "Santa said he's going to send us one of his elves to our house! Do you want to try to find him tonight if he comes?" Landon was very excited. We returned home and turned on the TV to watch a movie. Suddenly we hear "Momma, Daddee! LOOK!! Up dare, look!!" Landon directed our attention to the top of the TV, where a tiny elf sat holding a CD that read: "Hi landon! I'm your elf! My name is Dingle Berry". Landon started dancing around the room, calling out "Dingle watch, watch Dingle!" as he twirled and tumbled around the room. His reaction was far beyond what Mike and I had dreamed of. He was truly excited to see Dingle. Dingle is bound to make this season extra special for all three of us and we can't help but wonder where we will find him tomorrow morning! |
 DECEMBER 8, 2013 | When Landon woke up I drew the shades and happened to notice a bright red figure on the ceiling fan. Dingle was probably playing up there this morning but was stopped in his tracks after I got up, I'm sure it was my fault he got "stuck" there since he can't move once someone's awake. I asked Landon if he wanted to go see Dingle. We checked on top the TV where he sat the night before, but he was no longer there. "Let's go find him," I told Landon. He looked all around but couldn't spot the little red pixie. "Do you think he's in your room?" Landon ran back to his room and looked around the floor, the shelves, even in his bed. In hopes that he'd look up, I turned on the light. That didn't work. He eventually stopped looking. I grabbed one of his toy helicopters and started flailing it around and up over my head. Landon suddenly pointed up towards the fan saying "dare "ee is! LOOK momma!" He finally spotted our elf. At first he wasn't too thrilled about Dingle playing with his helicopter. He wanted it back. But I explained that we couldn't touch Dingle or he'd lose his magic and wouldn't be able to fly back to the North Pole to report on all Landon's good behavior. Eventually he accepted that his helicopter would remain up there for awhile. "I'm sure Dingle will give it back to you after we all go to bed tonight," I told him. My guess is that Dingle was quietly swinging the helicopter around on the ribbon he tied around it, then flew up to the fan for more height. Maybe he planned to drop it and make it fly too. I don't think he expected someone to get up early this morning and freeze him up there for the day! Silly elf. DECEMBER 9, 2013 | I was the first to wake up again this morning. I spent a few minutes looking for our elf friend, anxious to discover what he might have been up to while we slept. Turns out he was trying to climb on top a framed display. He didn't quite make it up by the time i woke up, so there he sat all day. When Landon woke up, his daddy asked him where Dingle had gone, since he was no longer in his room. Landon looked around the house for nearly a half-hour before spotting the tiny elf.
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