Red's Back!

Everyone has been posting their Elf on the Shelf adventures and such on Facebook lately, so I decided that it was probably time for Red to come back to our house. I asked Suzy when she wanted Red to come back and Suzy replied with, “I don’t want Red to come. She’s scary.” I tried a few different tactics to get her to change her mind, but eventually gave up. A few days later she had a change of heart. It was official… Red was coming back!


Red's debut was very simply planned and easily executed. She arrived from the North Pole and left little cotton ball footprints from Suzy's room to the kitchen. There she left a note out of Q-Tips for Suzy. She also rolled the chandelier with toilet paper. Easy as pie.... Around 2:00 am Suzy woke up to go to the bathroom. The cotton balls were in her room, remember? She yelled, "DADDDDY! DAD! DAD! Somebody made a big mess in here". We told her not to worry about it and go back to sleep. She just couldn't stand it. She came back in our room and said, "SOMEONE IS GOING TO BE IN REALLLLLLY BIG TROUBLE". I got up to see what all the fuss was about and started videoing our adventure down the hallway. She commentated the journey with statements like, "Look! It's everywhere!". When we got to the kitchen she still didn't notice that Red was on the table. We turned the light on and she finally spotted her. She was so excited to have Red back, but she was also so tired from waking up at two in the morning. She grabbed Red from the table and took her back to her room (we don't follow the rule that discourages kiddos from touching their elves). I got her and Red snuggly tucked in and headed back to bed myself. I was in bed maybe two minutes before she started screaming again, "Mama! Mama! (I drag myself from bed and head that way) Mama! I don't want to sleep with Red." I take Red from her and suggest that we put Red on the nightstand next to Rudolph. She looks at me and says, "No! She may mess my room up even more. Put her in the kitchen!". 

Lola is irritated that I haven't gotten in bed yet. She stays up until I go to bed and follows me around until I do. 

From then on, Red has been making her rounds from our house to the North Pole on a nightly basis. She has even visited Memaw's house.

She reminded me to clean my filthy ceiling fan......

Red loves to make messes! 

This was one of Suzy's favorite surprises! "I didn't know Red could build stuff, Mama!"

She took a ride on Chloe................

She reminded Suzy to do some very important things....

She traveled to Memaws......

She did a little cardio work when no one was looking.....

She TRIED to make Papaw some Kool-Aid....

She played friendly games of fetch....

Suzy has decided that Red can take her Picking Pull-Ups back to The North Pole with her. Considering she does not need the blasted Pull-Ups for anything other than her terrible "picking" habit, I think that Red taking them back with her is a grand idea. We shall see how that goes.