The elves brought a gift of twister to the kids today. Marcus was the most excited about it, and was actually quite good at contorting his little body in all the twist moves. “Look mommy! I a pretzel!”

The elves broke out the glitter in a last chance effort of making christmas extra magical. I’m happy to report it worked and fun was had by all.

This morning we awoke to sweet treats of candy and music. Thomas happily immersed himself in learning a new song while Marcus happily partook in candy consumption. Molly just danced along.

Elfie and Elva brought out the wool felt and some teeny pearls and string and directed the kids to start tracing! We now have a proper hallway kissing mistletoe. Scratch that… Fifteen little mistletoes.

The elves took out our pompoms and we decorated some elves. They even made us some ears to elf ourselves.

The elves did it again. They brought out the perler beads and printed up a few patterns to entice the kids to get Christmassy with their perlering.

So much fun, so much cleanup. 😉 Totally worth it.

I just knew this morning would be a success. Elfie and Elva broke out the watercolors and tape for a snowflake project.

I just love the smiles on their faces that the elves bring.

Marcus’ painting.

Molly’s painting.

Thomas’ painting.

When we came downstairs this morning, it looked a little something like this…

Here, let me give you a little closer look at where Elva was.

Turns out they were getting a bit anxious to decorate the hallway with the new things I bought on Sunday…

Yup…. better get on that today!

(Please excuse the crazy brightness edits on my photos… the kids got up before the crack of dawn this morning… literally.)

The elves broke out the scissors last night and made some snowflakes.

Molly thought it was so cool.

She even picked out her favorite.

Mornings like this is why Elva doesn’t mind the missing hours of sleep at night.

The kids LOVED this one. I even caught some on video! Fun times.

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