Some mornings, we found him in pretty inventive places (I've posted a few of those below), but mostly, he jumped around the same five or six spots throughout the month. This was the first year, though, that Jack really got into the magic and went to find him each morning. Here he is "measuring" the length of Jack's stocking for Santa.
The first week he arrived, I overheard Jack having a serious conversation in the dark dining room with Elf.
Jack, whispering: "Hey, are you real? Can you hear me? Can you hear me and you just aren't talking?" He proceeded with his first round of Santa requests.
A couple of nights later, we found Elf with the M&Ms on the kitchen counter, a temptation that proved too impossible for Jack to resist. He picked at the M&Ms throughout the day, before accidentally touching Elf.
For all you not well-versed in the rules of Elf on the Shelf, kids can never touch elves. It takes away their magic and they can't fly back to the North Pole each night to report to Santa. Naturally, Jack was a little upset after he touched Elf and decided to have another serious conversation -- or shall we say, intervention -- with him later that day.
Jack: "Elf, you really shouldn't land on counters, OK? You need to land higher from now on. That way little kids can't touch you. It's too dangerous for you to sit on counters."
We also found Elf in more serious spots too, like in our Nativity scene worshiping Baby Jesus and in our Advent calendar later in the month.
Speaking of elves, Jack filled this out at school last month. I think it's a keeper.
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