surprise visitor

So...several of my friends have had little elves that visit their houses each and every year. I have to admit, I've always thought my boys would never fall for the whole elf sent from Santa to watch them thing. That was until Coby came from school on Wednesday absolutely ecstatic that his class had a visitor from Santa. What was it? An elf, of course! He was SO excited and was enthusiastically sharing all about the elf with his brothers. He was telling of the elf's magic, how it appears to be frozen during the day, only to fly to the North Pole at night and report to Santa of the students' behavior! He also shared that if you touch the elf he might lose his magic and you wouldn't get Christmas gifts. He just went on and on, clearly he BELIEVED in this little elf and at this moment I realized I should've spent the $30 last week when I was contemplating buying him at Pottery Barn Kids. Apparently my boys are not too old! What was I thinking!?! I will say that Connor was laughing at Coby for believing in this little elf, but Coby was not shaken, he believed not only in this little elf, but he is also sure that the REAL Santa is the one at Bass Pro Shop every year!!! I love it.

Anyway, we woke up this morning and as I was getting breakfast (wheat Eggo waffles with peanut butter and syrup for Connor and Coby and a strudel for Cale if you must know!) Coby noticed a book on the breakfast bar. He was thrilled and confused when he realized that this was the book that Snowflake, his classroom elf, brought to his class. I of course hadn't even noticed that there was a book sitting there, so you can imagine my surprise as well! Next thing you know, Coby looked up and noticed that we had a little elf sitting in the area above our kitchen door frame. I guess Santa thought we needed an elf around here this year! Coby and Cale were thrilled and Connor was freaking out! He looked at me and said, "OK, usually I think these kind of things are from you and daddy, but I can tell that you all didn't do this. I am really freaked out by this whole thing!" Heehee!!! I think he is borderline between skeptical and believing. He is a very anxious child by nature and he is very concerned that something like this could make his way into our home without our knowledge as we slept, but at the same time has some doubts. He is in that in between stage, but for now I'm glad that he doesn't KNOW for sure. This is probably our last year for all three boys to still believe and I plan to savor every minute of it!

(Um, holy hair Coby! Keep in mind we had just rolled out of bed and Coby had major bedhead and this is my tired, just out of bed voice!)

We sat down tonight during Family Fun Friday and Coby read the book to us. It is darling and the boys are so excited! I can't believe Christmas is almost here. I love this season!!!! What a fun day.