Remember to brush your teeth!

We had a hard time finding Chip-Chip this morning, he wasn't in the living room like usual!



Christmas Reading

 Yesterday we went to the library, we got a bunch of Christmas books, and the puppy puppet that Skyler is madly in love with!

She's named the puppet "Mr. Runaway" and is dead set on getting a dog just like him for Christmas. Unfortunately? This poor kid is going to be disappointed because we are NOT getting a dog for Christmas. But? She gets major points for the name - "Mr. Runaway" is the most AWESOME name for a dog I've ever heard! (Although I hope he doesn't actually runaway!)

This morning, we found Chip-Chip reading the Olivia book that she checked out yesterday! She thought it was hilarious!!


Coloring Within the Lines

This morning we woke up to find that Chip-Chip must have made his trip to the North Pole and back, and he must have had time to spare because he had started to color in a page on Skyler's Giant Coloring Book!!

(And that rascal left the crayons spread all over the place!!) 

The Arrival of Chip-Chip

You may remember, in 2010 we had Elfred Jingle, visit us from the North Pole! He did such a good job visiting our house that he was promoted to head toy maker at Santa's Workship!) Last year, we had a new elf visit us, Skyler got to pick his name out and everything!

Well, this morning we were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and they had an Elf on the Shelf Balloon!! Skyler was so excited, she asked if I thought our elf would be visiting us again this year. I told her that I hadn't yet heard from Santa, but he had promised us last year he would come back.

About halfway through the parade, we had to leave to take Ryan to the truck - he's gone until Christmas now. But on our way home Skyler said to me "Mommy, I miss Daddy, but I hope our elf comes while he's gone!"

Fast Forward to this afternoon, Skyler was watching a movie and I was cleaning the kitchen when the doorbell rang!! (We celebrated Thanksgiving last week, since we knew Ryan wouldn't be home today.) I told Skyler to go ahead and check it, and well... just watch the movie! 



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We had to open the book to check for sure, but it's definitely Chip-Chip! He's back to spend another Advent season with us, and Skyler couldn't be more excited!!


**Be sure to check back soon for more Chip-Chip adventures!**
 (I've already posted the 11/23 entry - complete with Skyler's reaction this morning as she found what Chip-Chip was up to!)

Tying shoes - it's harder than you think!

While playing dress up with Daddy's shoes, Skyler decided she wanted to learn to tie them, so we worked on it and she did pretty well!!