Day 24: Elves Eat Sushi Too!

Day 22: Playing With the Blinds

Who says you can't do a little repelling in an apartment--even if it is on the mini blinds?

Day 21: The Reason for the Season

Rest assured that even though I haven't posted about Chippey in over a week, he's still around and doing his thing.  Truth is Reese was in Brenham all last week, and of course Chippey had to follow to ensure Reese was on her best behavior.

She really loved the scene when she woke up this morning shouting "Chippey's with Baby Jesus!".  Because of course Chippey knows the real reason for the season!

Day 12: Marshmallows Roasting on an Open Fire

Reese was really impressed this morning with Chippey "making marshmellows", especially since she recently roasted marshmallows at the Domain and has it fresh on her mind.

Day 11: Chippey is Definitely a Parker

If any of you are familiar with the Parker's, you know they are all very creative and "artsy", namely Grandpa. I guess you can say Chippey fits right in.  Reese thought it was hilarious that Chippey had drawn a self portrait of himself on my iPad.  She can hardly wait to utilize this app too.

Operation Christmas Child

Chippey didn't do anything too exciting today--he's just hanging out in the tree, so I'm going to post about something else.

We participated in Samaritan's Purse, Operation Christmas Child this year with our church.  The goal was to send 500 boxes from Bethany and I'm pretty sure we surpassed the goal.

I figured it's never too early to get our little ones thinking that not everyone has it as good as they do and it's important to not be selfish and give to others.  I was definitely interested to see how Reese would react to going on a shopping trip to pick all of this fun stuff out and then realize it's not for her.  Well, she embraced it and had a blast selecting fun and useful things for someone else.  In fact, she wanted to get a lot more for someone else, but we were dealing with a shoe box to fit everything in, so we had to call it quits after a while.

Do you see a theme here?  She likes Hello Kitty.

 She was so proud to take her box and deliver it at church all by herself.  We will be tracking our package to determine exactly where and who it lands with and I'm sure this will become a tradition.

Day 9: Alternative Transportation

Chippey must have had too much fun with his other scout elf friends at the North Pole to fly back on his own, so he chose another form of transportation back to the ATX.

Sleepy Face!  She was also scared to stand on the counter for me to take her pic, but beggers can't be choosers.

Day 8: Snow, I Mean Flour Angels

Chippey is used to snow, and we don't have any here, so he resorted to having a little winter fun in the kitchen....with the flour.  All Reese could say was "Chippey made a big mess".  "Is he going to clean it up?"

Day 7: A Day of Rest

Today, Chippey observed a day of rest too, and decided to just perch up high on the window sill.  Reese was asked at church how he got up so high and her reply: "he climbed up a ladder". Duh! Why fly when you can climb a ladder?

Day 6: Chippey Cooks Breakfast

Saturday morning Chippey was up bright and early after his return from the North Pole and whipped up some elf-sized pancakes, just for Reese.