Jack- Week Five

Night 28

Night 29

Night 30

Night 31

Night 32

Night 33

Night 34

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Jack- Week Four

Night 21

In a stocking


Night 22

In the tree

Night 23

Again, I fell asleep without moving him, but when I woke in the morning he wasn't in the tree where I left him. Mike luckily moved him before he left for work. It was fun searching the house for him with Marley. Found him on the kitchen fan.

Night 24

Night 25

Enjoying the cat food

Night 26

 In the Christmas wreath

Night 27

He brought Marley and Mason each a christmas book.


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Countdown to Christmas begins

December 1st started the holiday season here in our house. We put up the tree and other decorations. We also started the 'chocolate calendar' as Marley calls it. 

That night we went to Taltree Arboretum for Glow in the Garden. Santa was there (the one mentioned here) and they had some lights and trains. We've never been there before so we weren't sure what to expect, but we heard you need to go in the summer to really enjoy everything they have because they put most of the stuff away in the winter months. 

Marley liked the trains. They even had a Thomas one.

My dad waiting for a good couple minutes for the train to come onto the bridge so he could get the perfect picture. 

Outside of the train depot was there was this puzzle. I think we spent at least 15 minutes trying to figure it out, but couldn't. I couldn't just go home without figuring it out so I took a picture of the puzzle and directions to figure out later. The next morning, I got on the computer, opened the pictures up in paint (so I could draw lines on it) and I had it figured out on my second try. Give it a try! 

Start at the yellow hand print square, proceed for as many squares as you choose in the given direction. once you have stopped, change direction and move according to your new arrow. continue this way until you reach the middle square.

GOOD LUCK!!

How many tries did it take you? Are you still trying to figure it out?? I think the reason we couldn't figure it out in person was the two top left arrows pointing at each other really threw us off, but they're very important!

We're going to see Santa again so we can get a picture with Marley and Mason so I'll be back in another post to share that. 

Jack- Week Three

Night Fourteen

Riding a ladybug decoration.


Night Fifteen 

He hung this wreath up, but didn't finish making it...yet.

Night Sixteen

Night Seventeen

Marley had been playing with playdoh all day so that night Jack decided he wanted to play too. Marley was upset in the morning though because she wanted to use the scissors. Since you can't touch Jack I had to grab the scissors and pull them from his hands so Marley could play with them.


Night Eighteen
Jack was really tired and forgot to fly back to Santa- oops!


Night Nineteen

Jack found a friend to play blocks with.


Night Twenty

Dining with baby.  This was in Marley's room, she went up to play later and didn't want him in there so I had to scoop him into a basket and carry him downstairs. HA! 

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Thanksgiving

My side of the family had our Thanksgiving dinner the Saturday before Thanksgiving. We had a good time, and the night ended with some games and some tears. 

Mason and his cousin Tristan. Mason is 20 days older and 3 lbs lighter. 

I didn't get any pictures while everyone was there because I was too busy stuffing my face. 

Playing some Disney Trivia. 

And this is how the night ended. It was close to 11pm and Marley was upset because Julia wouldn't play with her so she just sat in the toy room and pouted. =(

Mason crashed out fairly early on his great grandma's lap. 

Jack- Week Two

Night Eight

Listening to the radio

 Night Nine

Sitting in Mason's seat

Night Ten

Coloring

Night Eleven

Playing guitar

 Night Twelve

Hanging from the ceiling fan. 

Night Thirteen 

We watched the movie Up the other day so I thought Marley would like this. However, the balloons were almost on the ground by morning. 

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Jack- Week One

Night One

His first night out and he didn't even make it back inside before morning! When Marley woke up and saw this she screamed and ran back into her room crying. She wouldn't leave her room until I came up there and carried her downstairs. She is terrified of him! Maybe if he's doing more fun stuff she'll like him a little better. 

Night Two

Going fishing. Marley come down and went to the bathroom and didn't say anything, so when Mike went in there he noticed that Jack was swimming with the fishes. So he set him back up there while Marley was searching the house for Jack and she eventually saw him. All day she was talking to him and laughing because he was on the tub in the dark. Much better reaction to him today than yesterday. 

Night Three

Roasting marshmallows. Marley immediately saw him up on the stove and thought it was so funny that he was roasting a marshmallow. She wanted me to light his candle/fire for him though! 

Night Four

Just going for a ride with a sock monkey on a dinosaur.

Night Five

It took Marley a while to find him here but when she did she cracked up laughing. She seemed a little happy that since he was in there he couldn't actually see her. 

Night Six  

Going for a ride on a remote control truck. Thanks for the help baby doll. 

Night Seven 

Just hanging out on the towel bar in the bathroom. 

I'm already running out of ideas of what to do with him. I think our biggest problem is that you can't touch him, so I can't put him anywhere that will require us to have to move him. I've seen ideas online of things to do, but we don't have a lot of extra tables or places to set him that would allow him to stay there all day. Maybe once we get our Christmas decorations up that will help a little too. 

Is anyone else doing the Elf on the Shelf this year? I would love to hear some other ideas of what to do with him.

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