The Elf on the Shelf

For those of you with little kids, I highly recommend getting "The Elf on the Shelf". Or at least looking into it. It comes with a book and a little elf that you can name. We named our elf Jasper. The idea is that Santa has sent an elf to live at your house to keep an eye on you. He is making sure you are being good and reports to Santa each night on your behavior. You can talk to the elf but he was told by Santa that he is not allowed to talk to us. You are not allowed to touch the Elf either. The parents hide him somewhere in the house (where the kids can still see him) and he sits there and watches the kids. After the kids have gone to bed you move him somewhere else in the house. And when the kids wake up they try to find where the elf moved to while they were asleep. He can be anywhere! The top of the fridge, in the Christmas tree, on a shelf...you never know but he is watching and you have to find him! It's just a fun way to remind the kids Santa really does know if you are naughty or nice. And they have fun trying to find him each morning. I think it will be a fun tradition to start with our family!

Click on The Tradition under the "ABOUT US" section here for more info.

(They have it at Target and Barnes and Noble if you are interested!)

Trick-or-Treat

We went to Norwalk Sunday night to Trick or Treat. Kayla had so much fun. She went with her friends Zach and Shae. She was so cute. She would creep up to the door and get her candy and them come running back to us saying, "Mommy Daddy Look!!" and then laugh. It was so cute to see her so happy. She kept up pretty good with the kids but started falling behind after about an hour. So I told her to skip a few houses to catch up to her friends. She said, "But I want candy" in her sweet little voice. She was not going to skip a house. What was I thinking?!?! For some reason she thought she got two pieces of candy from each house. They would give her one and she would just stand there and stare at them until they gave her another one. It was pretty funny, but after I realized what she was doing I told her she only got one piece from each house. About the last 20 mins of trick or treating she instead held Daddy's phone and walked around listening to and singing her favorite song, "Tonight Tonight". She acts different around her "older friends". It's funny....(at this age).






Pics from Grandpa & Grandma's house and Hannah & Marcus' bday party:

Night Eyes

We took Kayla to Night Eyes at the zoo and Grandma Smith got to come along too. Kayla is Little Red Riding Hood this year. She had lots of fun and didn't want to leave.

It's a Boy!

We found out last week we are having a boy! Kayla wanted a brother so she is really excited. We only have pink pink pink at our house so we went to buy some blue after we found out. She picked out a blanket she wanted him to have too. She will be such a good big sister:-)

Cupcakes

Kayla helped Mommy make halloween cupcakes. I had some extra stuff on hand, so we decided to make spiders and pumpkins. She is going to take them to daycare and share with her friends. (they were very yummie btw)

Fall Fun

Pumpkin Patch

We took Kayla to Howell's Pumpkin Patch this weekend. She asked us all morning when we were going to leave. Right when we got there she said she wanted to ride the pony first. They had all sorts of stuff to do and we rode the hay rack ride out to the pumpkin patch to pick out a pumkpin too. She said she wanted to carry it because she is a big girl. She was pretty worn out and fell asleep before we got home.