Our beloved Christmas elf made her annual debut on December 1st this year, with her North Pole Breakfast set up and ready for when the kids came down to get ready for school that morning. Oh how they love this breakfast; it changes a little bit each year, but it signifies a month of fun and unpredictable antics from Christmas Catherine. There are a few things that she "always does" during the month of December, but she tries not to repeat too much.
Here's our month with C.C. in review:
North Pole Breakfast --
C.C. always arrives with her suitcase and a note for kids. This year, she brought apple turnovers, chocolate donuts, "Santa hat strawberries" and some orange juice. She also set out the magnetic countdown calendar that we have been using for the last 10 years or so on the fridge.
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Trying to sip orange juice out of an orange. Spoiler alert: she wasn't successful.
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Leading a LONG train of vehicles from the Christmas tree all the way out into the hallway.
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C.C. made her own countdown chain and left it behind for Jimmy to rip a link off each night.
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Christmas Catherine made a Christmas tree out of donut holes for a snack for the kids one day.
We had very little snow this week so C.C. set to work making her own snowflakes out of Q-tips.
A rousing game of "Pin the Nose on the Reindeer" with a few friends.
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C.C. surprised us by bringing a little something special for Cheeto -- a "pineapple under the sea" house for the aquarium.
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In honor of the Mandalorian movie that the kids have been watching lately, C.C. hid in the Christmas tree dressed up as a baby yoda. The kids had the hardest time finding her that morning!
Kind of gross, but worth a lot of laughs ... C.C. was giving away "free reindeer poop" one day. We had some takers who later learned that there was a mixture in there of chocolate-covered peanuts, raisins and malt balls.
Christmas Catherine found a stash of candy up high and grabbed items from the pantry in order to reach it and indulge in some sugar.
One morning, the kids found something special wrapped up to put in their lunches. Once they got to the cafeteria, they opened the present to find a dessert item in the shape of a Christmas tree. Plus, their friends thought that it was so neat to have to unwrap the treat from their lunchboxes.
A naughty/nice chart was necessary one day. Jack found himself down on the naughty section before the day was over. Ha!
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Jimmy received a stuffed elf from his teacher last year and the elf joined C.C. in a "ball pit" of M&Ms one day.
LOTS of candy canes from this year's harvest.
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C.C. hung a craft project from ribbon with the message to "Have Fun." The kids used the kits to each make a different stain-glass item to hang on our windows for the holiday season.
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A new puzzle with the task of finishing the puzzle before Christmas Eve. As it turns out, the kids were so excited that they finished it before the end of the day!
Using a grater to "shred" dollars into (chocolate) gold coins:
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Another task: to choose 3 capsules, drop them in hot water and see what shapes appear.
It took a few minutes, but one-by-one, the capsules dissolved and a sponge popped out in the shape of a certain Christmas design.
This was a fun, quick activity that the kids did after school and then kept the sponges on display.
A battle between Darth Vader and a robot using light sabers.
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