Marvelette the Elf

We have been having SO much fun with our "Elf on the Shelf" this year.  Thanks to many ideas on the site Pinterest, Marvelette (that's what Ella named him last year) has been having lots of fun.  If you're not familiar with Elf on the Shelf, the basic concept is that the elf watches your children during the day and reports back to the North Pole each night to tell Santa if they have been good or bad.  Each morning when he returns he is in a different spot and the kids have to find him.  Some mornings we just move him somewhere else and other mornings we find him doing something silly like drinking syrup out of the bottle with a straw or hanging upside down from the fan.  One morning the kids woke up and he had replaced their stockings with their underwear?!? Last night while they were sleeping, he and some other toys were having a little too much fun.  Ella and I were just talking and saying that we hope he still went to the North Pole and didn't forget since he was playing so much! ;)