Even More Adventures with Albus, and our Struggle with the letter "H"

Well, First, here's our latest Albus pictures-



He's been relatively well-behaved, and down-right sweet last night, leaving Kayla an art project to do. That's one of her favorite things! She was so happy she drew a picture for Albus right after we finished Santa's beard and showed it to him. I wrote on the picture of Santa , "To Kayla, Love Albus" and colored a small bit of the hat to look like he got it started for her. She's loving this Elf thing! So glad I bought it, and it was definitely worth every penny.

And on an unrelated note, Kayla for some reason is struggling with the H sound this week. No idea why, she just isn't grasping it. She writes her letters pretty well, and H is no exception there. She picks up on that pretty quickly and can write them all up to H so far. But when it comes to the letter sound itself we are really having a hard time with this one. Boo! I guess they all can't be easy!

More Adventures of Albus the Elf

Albus the Elf is generally a hit so far. Every morning she still wants me to hold her hand as we walk downstairs, but she has loved finding him and laughs when she sees what he's up to.
Day 2-
Albus decided to play with Kayla's blocks.


Day 3- Taking it easy this morning, Albus relaxed with a couple of good books:



Day 4- His first night of minor mischief. I wonder what Kayla will think of this!




And in other holiday-related news, I decided to do a little 'countdown-to-Christmas' treat for Kayla. I found a bunch of small stockings at the dollar store (2 in a pack) and picked up a few, but I'm pretty sure I could have found different ones for much cheaper. I just was lazy and didn't feel like looking. So I also made a handful of cheapo ones using two table runners from the dollar store, and a santa hat. I cut up the table runners into little stocking shapes, sewed them together, and then just hot-glued the white fluffy part onto them.

Adventures with our Elf on a Shelf

Meet Albus, our Elf on a Shelf. (I swear I did not prompt Kayla in any way to choose a Harry Potter related name, but admittedly did give her a huge hug when she came up with that all on her own.)

Today was our first day meeting him. This morning when Kayla woke up she was excited to start looking for him. She bounded down the stairs quickly, turned the corner, and since I had placed the elf conspicuously on the DVD shelf close to the stairs she saw it right away. I figured that for the first day it would be best to just ease her into it and let her get used to seeing him.

Well, upon seeing him she froze in her tracks and started yelling for me to help her. She was pretty terrified. I picked her up and we waited a few seconds, and I let her hold the elf (which you're technically not supposed to do, according to the story). But it helped her and she quickly smiled and liked him. I put him back on the shelf where she couldn't reach him and told her it was time to choose his name. Albus. Can you believe it? She's so awesome. In hindsight, I actually wonder if she was trying to say "Elvis", which would have been a lot less exciting for the Harry Potter nerd in me, but I'd be equally impressed with her wit (Elvis the Elf is, after all, still pretty funny) and wonder where she heard the name. Either way, when I asked her again, she confirmed it was ALBUS, so we went with that.

I'm very excited to have some fun with this little dude. I can't wait to see what he gets into this month.