The Ugly Little Elf

Well I didn't do any Black Friday shopping. We did put up the Christmas tree Friday afternoon. We finally broke down and bought a new Christmas tree this year. Our old one was very small and two thirds less branch tips then the new one. Cory took us out to Target on Wednesday afternoon and we bought a new shiny star for the new Christmas tree.































Cory got this elf from his primary teacher(she made it) for Christmas when he was just a lad, say 4 or 5 years of age. I think this is the ugliest elf in the entire world! Hee hee! I always protest when he goes to place it on the tree. Usually our tree is up against a wall and so I have him hide it in the back. But this year the tree is in the middle of the window and so there is no hiding the ugly little elf! Megan lets her daddy know that she thinks it's cute.

After a leftovers dinner, we watched Pirates of the Caribbean. Jonny decided to put on his Pirates costume and reenact some of his favorite parts from the movie. What a ham!












Today Adam pulled another of the shiny bulb ornaments from the tree. I stepped outside for a second or two to see the lights that I had put up in the window. When I came back in Adam had broken the ornament and was starting to bleed. I thought his mouth was bleeding, it turns out it was just paint from the ornament. It was a red one, maybe he thought it was an apple? I had to put two bandaids on his fingers. He didn't like the bandaids at all and kept trying to rip them off. Finally I pulled his sleeve from his shirt, down over his hand and he couldn't get his hand out to pull the bandaids off. We've had the same ornaments for the past 9 years and the kids/babies have never broken them until today! What a stinker!