They’re still welcome in my house…

And that’s because, even though they have done some messy things, they also cleaned up after themselves if we didn’t have time or didn’t feel like it. And they did some sweet things too, like finish decorating the tree when the girls secretly asked them to, since they were too tired. After they told me, I asked them to finish my cleaning to see if it would work, and, guess what. It did! They even cleaned the vacuum (my least favourite thing to do). There was also the time they have used our digital camera to take pictures of themselves, which made us realize that we have this timer feature on the camera we didn’t know about. It came in useful not long after.

Ok, so here are some more photos of Seamus and Sully during their December 2007 visit:

Having a ’snowball’ fight

They took this picture of themselves snooping thru some gifts

They invited some Winx dolls to play monopoly with them

Sitting around a little tree they brought us one night

Another picture they took of themselves

Binging on Halloween candy. Miss Life10 was really mad when she saw how much of her loot they ate!

Seamus looks like he’s got a tummy ache

Sullivan having some green candy

 

 

When you’re hosting a spy elf…

…you have to know your kids behaviour will be at their best. And if they slip up, the elf will be reminding them, either by email or through notes left on the computer. At least that’s what Seamus was doing last December. He arrived on December 1st, and brought snow with him. We live in the Pacific Northwest where we don’t see snow often, so that made it very special. Every morning the girls would look through the whole house searching for Seamus, making sure he was still with us. He was found in the weirdest places. Then, on the 8th, Sullivan the Leprechaun decided to join his cousin Seamus, spending some time with us. His idea of fun is doing as much mischief as he could talk Seamus into doing every night. I shudder to think what he would’ve done if he would have been left on his own. The first morning after he arrived, we found a note from Seamus saying “I told him not to do it!” (written backwards, of course) .

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This is what ‘it’ was…

Making snow angels on the kitchen counter

Using a 25lbs rice bag to make a sledding hill

Playing some card game

They dared unwrap one of my gifts, so they could watch the DVD

 

 

 

I’ll add some more photos of their exploits later.     

What the heck is an Elfrechaun?

Well, that would be Sully’s cousin Seamus, of course. You see, in Sully’s own words “me mum’s own sister married one of them elves up at the Pole” and “Seamus takes a little after his old man, so we used to tease him a lot about his height and his ears size”. So, Seamus was with us for a couple of days last March and he also has an email that he uses to keep in touch with Miss Life12 and Miss Life10 throughout the year. He lives at the North Pole and he is a spy elf. He came to stay with us in December, spying on the girls and when Sully dropped by for a few days they got in some scrapes together. More about that in a later post.