Jingles last days in 2012

When we got back home after a few days away we found Jingle had been having a big snooze under the tree.

On the 24th he left a note in the advent calendar saying it was his last night and he would be  eating lots of sugar throughout the day so he had enough energy to fly back to the North Pole!  :-)   The kids looked all over and couldn't find him though.

Maddison finally found him in the tree (he was round the back of the tree, she turned the tree around for the photo).

Christmas morning Jingle had gone, but he'd left a note with a bottle of maple syrup and strawberry flavored syrup!  :-)

The note said he'd be back next year and he'd left them a special treat for breakfast in the freezer!

Kinda sad to see him go actually.  I didn't get to do half the ideas I'd thought about or found on Pinterest!  heheee

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More Jingle Adventures ....

Day 17 - Jingle went hot air ballooning in Aaron's undies :-)

Day 18 - he had a game of Tumblin' Monkeys with Barbie under the tree.  (When Aaron saw them, he said "Daddy ... I think they will fall in love"!!)  hahaa

Maddison decided she didn't want her Barbie to play with Jingle and snatched her away, so Aaron had a game with Jingle (note it's Jingles turn to throw the dice hehee) :-)

Day 19 - Barbie escaped from Maddison's clutches, jumped in her car and came zooming past to  pick up Jingle for a ride!!

He liked it so much he even had his arm around her!!  :-)

Day 20 - Christmas stockings were hung, so Jingle decided to hang out in one of them :-)

Jingle is going to have a rest for a few days (probably in the stocking) while we are away for a couple of days.  Wonder what we find him doing when we get back!!

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Jingle's Adventures over the last week

8th December - Jingle was found in Maddison's baby doll cot!  

 9th December - There was a note in the advent calender from Jingle which said

"Since I had the biggest sleep today (thank you baby doll for letting me use your bed!), I decided to go back to Santa’s workshop to help make toys during the night.  I was last in line to get my flying powers  to come back here though, so I am really sorry, I had to poop as I didn’t have time before I left!"

Aaron is reading the letter and Maddison was unwrapping the poop!  :-)

 Maddison spied Jingle hiding behind the advent calender!

 She told Aaron :-)

 They had no problems eating Jingle poop!  hehehee (peanut m&m's)

10th December - Took the kids a while to find him this morning ... he just had his feet hanging out a vase.

 11th December - BIG discovery this morning!

 Jingle was in a bag of special magic goodies!

 Magic seeds, magic moss, magic sprinkles and 10 plastic cups :-)  The instructions said:


"I found some magic seeds for you to plant!  To get these to grow you need to be very good. 
Here’s the instructions ... plant a seed in a paper cup, cover it with the moss and add the sprinkles.  Be extra good and very patient for the magic to work.  If you misbehave you might break the magic.  Follow these directions and behave just right and you will see something special grow overnight".

That evening we planted the seeds.  Everyone wrote their name on the cups (note total concentration for Maddison with tongue hanging out hehee)

 Maddison putting a seed in each cup.

 Then the moss.

 And finally the sprinkles.

 All planted ... now to see how much patience we have and how good the kids are!

12th December - Advent Calender just had a letter from Jingle!

Some sad little faces from the kids (I on the other hand was quite excited to do that letter hehee)

13th December - Jingle was beside the advent calender with a note and the remainder of the sprinkles.  The note said:


"I think the seeds need some more time to grow.  Please add some more magic sprinkles to the seeds to help them before you go to school today.
And please remember to be well behaved, because when you are naughty it affects all the magic seeds.   Can’t wait to see what the magic seeds will grow for you."

So after breakfast and routine stuff (like teeth brushing and getting dressed), they added sprinkles to the cups.

 They may have been some sprinkle tasting going on!

Tom the Turtle was watching :-)

14th December - Jingle was hiding in the flowers.

And low and behold the magic worked!  (Very pleased I got up at 5am to pop the candy canes in because Aaron was up at 5.30am to check!!!  I didn't do them before going to bed because of ants.)

 15th December - Jingle made a tyre swing from a lego wheel.

16th December - Rainbow assortment of hot wheel cars!  The cars didn't stay all neat like that for long!!

Be back again with another update :-)

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1st Week of December 2012

I seemed to have survived on very little sleep ... but it's been fun :-)  Here's a quick recap (with quite a few photos!).

Nana and Grandad arrived and the kids were super excited to see them when they got home from school last Friday.

2nd Dec - Jingle the Elf was found riding an elephant. 

We attended the funeral of an elderly Chinese lady.  Nana and Grandad offered to mind the kids which was awesome as it was a long afternoon with quite a drive between the house the cemetery. The cemetery was huge ... we've never seen such a large burial ground.  Was very interesting to see.  I took a few photos on our way out.

 There were gold buddha's lining the roads.

Angels lined the roads on the Christian side of the cemetery.

 Dec 3rd - Jingle was up high on the bookshelf reading a book.

Chocolate coins in the advent calendar :-)

 Yum yum scoff scoff!!

4th Dec - Jingle was back in the tree with a present!

He left them a letter explaining he'd made a quick trip back to Santa's workshop during the night and bought them back a tree ornament each.

 Cute little hand painted wooden snowmen.

I did a LOT of baking (cookies and cupcakes) for my table at the school fleamarket.  I also sold a lot of the kids baby toys which I'd cleaned up.  Was nice to see the majority of them go to new homes :-)  I sold all the cookies and half the cupcakes.

I took the rest of the cupcakes to Samuel's school the next morning for his "farewell" snack heheee

Aaron came down after he finished school to help me "sell" things.  But he seemed more interested in spending my money buying new toys!!  hahaa  He is now the very proud owner of a set of Pokemon characters (for RM10), 3 bey blades (for RM5) and a book (1RM).  I printed out a label for an old tin when we got home so he could keep his Pokemon figures safe!  :-)

I told him to look for something for Maddison that was RM10 or less.  He was away for about 5 minutes and came back and said he couldn't find anything!  (such a bloke!)  I asked him to go and look at the table he'd bought his Pokemon things from because I could see a Little Pony there that she would like.  He came back and said it was RM5 (said with very BIG eyes).  He got the big pony Maddison is holding plus 2 tiny ones.  She was thrilled and has lined up all her ponies in her room and the big one has a special bed she tucks it into each night!!  :-)

Dec 5th - Jingle was caught with his hand in the candy jar!

Dec 6th - he rested and read a Christmas story.  I do believe he may have had a tummy ache from eating so much candy!!!

I spent the morning in Aaron's class showing them how to make Christmas ornaments for the tree using 2 Sizzix dies.  (The Mums that were helping me helped me make up a pile of pine cones using Tim Holtz' pine cone die as they were a bit fiddly and involved hot glue).

Aaron's letter to Santa was on the wall.  :-)

Santa came and visited all the Grade 2 kids in the library and read them "The Polar Express".

When they went back to their class they discovered Santa had left them a present!!  Aaron got a Roald Dahl Treasury book.

That afternoon I baked the 7 layers needed for a rainbow cake and in the evening I iced it.  It was 8 inches without the final layer of icing!!  Only just fitted in the fridge!!

Dec 7th ... Jingle was caught licking the icing on the cake!

Kids thought that was so funny. :-)

The sky this morning at 7am.  The clouds had a lovely pink hue to them.

Really really busy day today.  Santa came to visit Maddison's class at 11am, so I popped down to take photos of the kids with Santa :-)

They all got a book present as well!  Maddison's was "The Christmas Tree Fairy".

In the afternoon we had Christmas craft activity in her class.  I spent the majority of the time taking photos :-)  Maddison's tree ornament had more than her fair share of glue I think!!

It was very glittery and had pompoms down the edges.

Another Mum and I did the food for the party, as it was the teachers birthday as well (hence the rainbow cake).  We did Christmas themed fruit and veg platters - a lot of the fruit was cut with Christmas shaped cookie cutters.

The veges were placed on the tray in the shape of a tree (idea from pinterest!)  :-)  I used a slice of star fruit for the star.  and I couldn't find cauliflower at the supermarket for snow at the base of the tree, so we went with a red capsicum tree skirt!  :-)

The cake in it's finished state.

And in it's cut colourful glory :-)  The teacher was so surprised to see it when it was cut, I don't think she had any idea it was a rainbow cake :-)

So that's what we have been up to ... one more week of school left for Aaron and Maddison.  Samuel finished today.  Lyndon gets back tonight from Australia.  Aaron has his last soccer practice for the year in the morning.  And I want (and need) to catch up on some sleep over the weekend!

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