So this is the final week that buddy has enjoyed with us. It’s been quite hard finding different things for him to every day as we just don’t have the time, I don’t know how other people do it! So it’s mainly been a case of hiding him somewhere for J to find. He has still enjoyed it though and gets excited when he finds him. I’m not sure how he’s going to be when Buddy has gone though, I imagine he’ll still look for him for a while!

So here’s what Buddy has been up to in his final week:

Day 17
Buddy got caught in the holly whilst looking at himself in the mirror.

Day 21
Buddy decided he wanted to be a fairy today but the fairy wouldn’t let him sit right at the top, so he had to sit on branch.

Last week Buddy arrived from the North Pole with a North Pole breakfast for us all, which went down a treat (I’m hoping he leaves some for us on Christmas Day too!). He’s been back & forth since then and after the shaky start, J had enjoyed looking for him every day and seeing what he’s got up to overnight. His first week with us went a bit like this…

Day 2
Buddy knew the cereal J usually goes for so decided he would get in there first…

So it’s the beginning of December (yay!), and a new tradition I wanted to introduce this year was the ‘Elf on the Shelf’. I’d seen people doing it last year and was really excited to see what all of the elves were getting up to, so as J is a bit older this year I decided to go for it! I didn’t buy an official elf on the shelf though, as I think they look just a little bit freaky – you know, like they might actually come off the shelf and kill me…or something. Instead, we purchased an elf ‘kit’ from a supermarket with a much cuter looking elf who we’ve named Buddy! (Can you tell what one of my favourite Christmas films is?..)

This morning – 1st December – Buddy arrived with a letter for the boys and served us up a North Pole breakfast. The breakfast consisted of Christmas tree & snowman crumpets, snowman pancakes, snowballs, and reindeer poo! It was yummy but I couldn’t eat it every day in the North Pole as I felt a bit sick afterwards.