Christmas Crafts Are Awesome (And Also, That Creepy Little Bastard)

The past three days or so Daddy has been spending every moment of his time at home outside pulling a Griswold hanging Christmas lights on the house/yard/everywhere, which means I have an extra four hours each evening of pulling the single-parent shift and trying to keep the rabid wolves at bay until bedtime. 

Luckily, it's December, which means endless Christmas activities, crafts, movies, books etc to fill the time with. These are just a few of the activities we've done since Monday:

Santa ornaments using salt dough (Cam on the left, Calen on the right)

Calen and I (but mostly Calen) built a super awesome Christmas Lego set)

This evening we made Christmas cookies

Cam caught eating one

Also, we started that tradition this year. That tradition that everyone does that I swore I'd never do. But when near every single one of your four year old's classmates has one and said four year old starts asking why his house doesn't have one, you kind of just have to surrender. 

Surrender to this creepy little bastard:

Hop on that bandwagon why don't ya.

 This is Fred. And as much as I absolutely detest to admit it, it's actually pretty fun having an Elf on a Shelf and seeing the kids laugh over all the ridiculous shit he gets into. We did it a little differently though, because I do not like the idea of "be good, the Elf is watching you!" (how about "be good, or Mom and Dad is going to annihilate you!"), so we did it a little different. We put Fred in a box on our doorstep with a letter from Santa, explaining that Fred was one of his special elves but he had a tendency of being naughty, and maybe he could spend the Christmas season with us and the kids can teach him grace by loving him even when he's naughty, like Jesus does to us when we're bad. 

How's THAT for incorporating both Santa AND Jesus in the same little elf weirdo.

So admittingly we've had a lot of fun putting him in funny places each morning. Calen actually gets mad at him "Fred stop being so naughty! Santa is going to be so mad at you!! You have to be good!"

Fred stepped in as the role of baby Jesus

Tonight Fred made a 2 foot tall castle with Lego Duplos

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