Jingle and His Ways

Our elf from the North Pole is still around creating some interesting scenes. J truly loves finding him each morning and seeing what he created this time. For a writing activity, J started keeping an Elf on the Shelf journal which she writes what Jingle has been doing and draws a picture. She has enjoyed this as well because she wants to remember the silly things he does.

The night of the parade, Jingle created his own parade complete with bystanders, lights, trucks, and his own flag to wave.

J was thrilled but Kaleb wanted his cars back.

The next night, he took a "bubble bath" using cotton balls and Grandma's bowl. He helped himself to a drink, a plate of sweets, added a beauty mask to keep out the lights, and had some light reading close by, just in case. This night he left a small gift from Santa - bath fizzes - little tablets that change the bath water into any color. Cool gift, Santa!

We have been so busy lately that the Christmas stockings were just draped on a chair. We never got around to hanging them. Jingle found some hooks and lights and went to work. He put the string of lights into the fireplace to give it a warm feeling.

He decided to take a rest in one of the stockings. J saw it and promptly said,"The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...."

Jingle made himself a horse-drawn sleigh complete with ponies. I guess Santa's reindeers weren't available.

This time we found Jingle and his friends in the pantry on the morning of our breakfast with Santa (which was closed due to bad weather). Jingle is sharing doughnuts and hot chocolate with Santa and the Snowman complete with candlelight. Hey Jingle, can you pass me applesauce? Have a Jingle of a day.