Who's Your Boyfriend?

We were eating breakfast this morning and Matt asked Hayden if she had a boyfriend. Her immediate answer was "no." But then she said, "I have a boyfriend, Daddy! I have a boyfriend!" When we asked who her boyfriend is she said "CHATAH!"

Oh Chatah! We didn't formally introduce Chatah to the readers of this blog so let us explain. The night we put up our Christmas tree we introduced Hayden to "Elf on a Shelf". First let me say that whoever created Elf on a Shelf is a genius. We bought a box set that comes with a little elf and a book. You read the book to your kids and tell them all about an elf that comes down from the North Pole to keep an eye on them for Santa. Every night their elf goes back up to the North Pole and reports to Santa about whether they've been good or bad. When the elf comes back in the morning he's in a different spot. The Elf is magical and can't ever be touched so he typically sits up high. The Elf has to be named by your kiddo and Hayden decided on the name Chatah.

She loved looking for Chatah every morning. It was the first thing she wanted to do and would typically find him within 30 seconds of looking for him. He moved around between the tv room, the kitchen, the dining room, and the living room.

Christmas Day was his last day with us this year. He sat perched on the Christmas tree and watched Hayden open her presents and then went back up to the North Pole until next December. She still asks about him from time to time, as I'm sure she will for the next few weeks. And now it looks like he is Hayden's first boyfriend.