Tinsel Dude the Elf - Three

Tinsel Dude finished his job visiting Noah and Zay, but I wasn't so great getting pictures of every day. I'll do my best to document with what I have. :)

 

On Tuesday morning the boys got ready for school and then found Tinsel Dude sitting on the door handle with a "Santa Stop Here" Sign.

 

As I mentioned in the last installment of Tinsel Dude's adventures Ampa took Noah and Zay to Angel Fire Tuesday. He picked them up from school and they headed straight to New Mexico. On Wednesday morning they found Tinsel Dude hiding on the candle downstairs.

 

Thursday they found him on top of the small tree we have in Angel Fire.

 

Friday they found him above the patio door in the greenery.

 

Saturday they found him hiding on top of the light over the table.

Have you noticed he's been doing a lot of.....hiding? Without any props. I guess that is Ampa's style.

I will say that Ampa was very sweet to send an elf picture to me, Leslie and Grams every morning.

We all arrived to Angel Fire on Saturday and things got a little more interesting Sunday morning.

I completely failed to get a picture of Tinsel Dude because my priority was getting any possible sleep. But Tinsel Dude was in the open oven with cake mix and icing and he had smeared icing on the stove. Ampa quickly cleaned it up and made breakfast so I failed to get the picture. They used tongs (since you can't touch the elf) to move him to the Christmas tree. The boys loved it!

 

Monday (again I failed to get a picture) Tinsel Dude rolled down the stairs inside of a toilet paper roll. I saw it on my way to make a bottle in the middle of the night but it was cleaned up before I woke up from my nap that Grams had let me take Monday morning.

 

Tuesday Tinsel Dude popped out of the Rice Krispie box on the refrigerator.

 

Wednesday we were all packed up and ready to head home (minus a few things like food) and Grams asked Noah to check the fridge and he found Tinsel Dude eat/sleeping (?) in the carrots. They could not believe it!

 

Sidenote: I went downstairs to make a bottle and take care of Tinsel Dude and could not find him anywhere. I sat down while the bottle was warming and scanned the room for 3 full minutes. I figured Grams had handled it since he wasn't in the cereal box anymore and went back upstairs.

Wednesday the boys ended up going to Van Alstyne with Grams & Ampa instead of taking them to Leslie's

 

Thursday (Christmas Eve) Noah and Zay woke up and found Tinsel Dude on the mantel at Gram's house (no picture) and then the four of them drove to Leslie's house where they found Tinsel Dude had fallen off of their mantle and landed on the elf's butt that was stuck in their fireplace (This picture is from November, but the only one I had with the Elf sticking out of the fireplace). They were SO BEYOND EXCITED TO SEE THE ELF MAGICALLY FOLLOWED THEM HOME!
 

Zay: I saw the elf fall out of the stocking onto the Elf
Leslie: You did?
Zay: Well I ALMOST did!

HAHAHHAHA that is a classic Zay story that I never want to forget!! believing is (almost) seeing!!

I really think Tinsel Dude made December more exciting for everyone (including me and Leslie) so I can't wait for him to come back next year. :)