Well, I think Elfie does like the dreidel game and is still into Hanukkah celebration!!!

Everyone has their own dreidel!

Oh dreidel, dreidel, dreidel!!!

Hey guys! You just need one dreidel and learn how to take turns…..

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Our cutie Elfie Elizabeth LOVES Christmas decorations. She knew Pinky’s bedroom needed something……like a snowflakes curtain for her door. Idea from here.

What does Pinky thinks about it? 

Ahhhh Elfie!!!! Thank you….. is so beautiful! It is for my size…

(since she can walk straight thru it….not a good thing for mommy or daddy….lol)

Nice Elfie!

p.s. You will need cotton balls, white, red, green pom-poms, white sewing thread, scissors, tape and a hand sewing needle. Thread cotton balls and position close to where you want them. You can use white glue to keep your “snowflakes” in exact position, sliding them into the glue (I didn’t do this because of time). I tried to make paper snowflakes to add to the curtain. I used tape to adhere them to the door frame. No wonder why Pinky says that Elfie LOVES to use my tape! LOL 

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The night before last, Elfie went to the North Pole kind of sad because Pinky’s lack of listening to mommy and daddy. Most of the time, Pinky is a very well behaved kid. However, that day her wonderful manners weren’t around. I think she was way too excited about her upcoming ballet rehearsal and recital plus didn’t sleep well the nights before. Well, she was not caring about Elfie watching her so the next day Elfie wasn’t around. During the day, honestly, she didn’t care about Elfie but at night she asked me if Elfie will be home the next morning.

The next morning, Elfie reappeared, locked outside the balcony door holding a tiny note saying: Santa was sand and so am I. We love you! Inside she wrote: “Pinky” I came back hoping that you will listen to mommy and daddy. Love, Elfie.

Pinky was happy for having Elfie back and laughing because somehow Elfie got locked out of the house.

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Pinky’s ballet recital is around the corner. Therefore, Elfie has been kind of busy practicing really hard with her friends.

Go girl!!!

They are really good!

I think Pinky’s going to be proud.

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This was an easy one and funny. Let me explain! Pinky woke up this morning, went to our bedroom complaining that she was needing to use the bathroom but Elfie was in there fishing! LOL…She was worried about sitting on the toilet. Ahhhh!

Easy???: Elfie’s chair is an empty toilet roll I cut in half (vertically) and rolled that half inside the tube making a mini chair that holds Elfie really well on position. The fishing rod is a pencil that I passed between Elfie’s legs into the “toilet paper tube chair”. On the other side of the pencil I added a long piece of tape (Pinky told me that Elfie loves to play with my tape…lol) and attached is one of Pinky’s toy worms. Since I do this before going to bed, putting goldfish cracker inside the toilet won’t do it until the morning. I just added a few crackers next to Elfie and that’s it!

Can you see now how easy??? 

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Elfie went last night parachuting with Santa and Frosty. 

This has been the best one for Pinky. She woke up early that day and started to scream: Waooooo, waooooo, this is sooooo coooooolllll!!!

After that, she came to our bedroom calling for us to go and see what Elfie did last night! LOL

P.R.I.C.E.L.E.S.S.

I found the snowman and Santa at CVS, both for $2.99 (I am saving them for next year!)

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Elfie hiding in the poinsettia plant.

Or as Pinky said: Look mommy she is pretending to be a plant.

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Ok, so I am running out of creativity tonight! It has been a long day and mommy just want to relax. However, Pinky is going to wake up tomorrow looking for Elfie. I know she is going to have a blast with this not creative one:

Christmas tree Toilet paper decorated by Elfie

There she is!

Maybe tomorrow I will get inspired but, for now, Good Night!

As always, Pinky comes home asking for new things to learn more about. This week they talked a little about the Hanukkah celebration. She came back home so excited and asking me to put everything together in order to start celebrating Hanukkah on Saturday. I was like AHHHH??? Baby, we don’t celebrate Hanukkah and, as a matter of fact, Mommy doesn’t knows anything about it. (Oh my! Mommy doesn’t knows everything!) Well, I had to get my beloved computer and start searching (quickly) anything about this holiday.

When she saw me with the computer, she asked me: Are you looking for it at the Internet??? HAHAHA….

When I was her age…we used to look for things in the huge Encyclopedia we had…page by page….hahaha

So, here is what we have been learning about Hanukkah, kind of Montessori-inspired:

Craft: The star of David ornament

Great fine motor, pattern, counting and shapes activity!

We used beads and pine cleaners. Made two triangles and connected them together with more pine cleaners. Easy.

 

Dreidel game

She won! This was so great for math: learning about taking half of whatever was inside the pot whenever we got a hey.

 

Menorah handprint art

 

Metal insets arts

Dreidel and Star of David art with shapes: Using the homemade metal insets. Wao! I made these a way long ago and never got to use them with Pinky. Well, they are always available on the shelf but she was never interested until today. I made these with cardboard. Easy and cheap.

This is the one I made since forgot to take a picture of Pinky’s one.

Dreidel. We used the square, rectangle and triangle cardboard metal insets.

Pinky’s excellent job!

Menorah pasta art

We read a book I bought a long time ago to include it in our Europe Continent Box. She was the one to remind me about this book and other Hanukkah related things we have inside this box. Oh, my smarty little girl is always amazing me!

Pinky very concentrated!

The fine job still waiting for the glue to dry up.

I got the inspiration from here, however, we just had macaroni available so we painted them with different colors. She was happy.

 

These are the fun things we have been doing so far. I think we will do more since we still have 7 more days for Hanukkah’s holiday!

Visit my Pinterest Board for more inspiration, over here.

Also, here’s a great video from Sesame Street about Hanukkah.

 

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Here is another surprise from our beloved Elfie to Pinky! She has been very busy tonight decorating the chandelier with candy canes. 

She is busy getting ready for the Holidays!

I think Pinky is going to make me up early, again! LOL

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Oops! I think someone fell asleep and forgot to post about our Elfie mischief last night.

Well, this morning Pinky woke up early (OMG! On Saturday!!!) just to look for her new beloved friend Elfie Elizabeth. She went to my bedroom, very excited, and said: Mommy, mommy…I am sorry for waking you up but I want to show you what Elfie did last night! (Ahhh! too cute!)

HAHAHA….she didn’t realize her nose was red! She loved it! Well, which little girl doesn’t like to wear make up, even if it’s on your nose? hahaha

 

Elfie with a toilet paper Rudolph she made, the red lipstick, a little note for Pinky telling her to see herself at the mirror and a mini Rudolph book she was reading.

Yes, I made the little tiny book. (Don’t tell Pinky!) We read it using a magnifying glass. LOL

 

Another day gone!!!!

HAHAHA I think I’ve lost track!