The Leonard 4: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

We have been busy putting away our fall decorations and putting the Christmas decorations up. I love Christmas time and this year Meredith is really getting into it. Kyle put the tree up this weekend. On Tuesday Wes came over. He and Meredith "helped" me put ornaments on the tree. They put about 90% of the ornaments in one spot on the tree!

In other news, we are crazy about Elf on the Shelf around here! We recorded the Elf on a Shelf movie and Meredith watches it about 3 times a day. Our elf, Ooddle, came about a week ago. We love Ooddle. If you are not familiar with Elf on the Shelf let me tell you about him.

Santa sent us our elf last year and now he is back. Each day Ooddle watches Meredith and Charlotte to make sure they are being good. At night when we are asleep Ooddle flies to the North Pole to report to Santa how M & C's day was. Then he flies back and sits in a new spot for the next day. Every morning the first thing Meredith does is look for Ooddle. The crazy guy has been all over the house. If you come to our house this time of year please follow one rule...do not touch Ooddle. If you touch him he will lose his magic! That is Santa's rule that comes with the elf. Here are some of the places we have found Ooddle.

Day 1

Here he is the first day he came to our house. Do you see him?

There he is!

Day 2

Day 3

I'm sure Ooddle was relieved to discover these weren't reindeer antlers!

Day 4...and 5

Ooddle was in the dinning room on day 4, then a funny thing happened. When Meredith woke up on day 5 much to every one's surprise he was in the same spot. We figured he liked the spot so much he went back to it!

Day 6