Donut the Elf

As I was getting out our Christmas decorations I found the Christmas Elf that was given to us from the Herrera family in a past Christmas.  I decided to get it out so that the kids could name it and have their actions be monitored by the elf to report to Santa.  They named the elf Donut.  At first it mostly creeped them out.  The idea that that it would watch them and move around at night was a little disturbing.  Concerned that it would come into their rooms during the night, they had a hard time falling asleep.  The first morning they were so freaked out not knowing where it would be.  To make things worse, the power had gone out and we couldn't turn on the lights so they were trying to find the elf in the dark. They slowly walked down the stairs huddled together looking all around, as if something was going to jump out at them.  To help the kids get their anxiety under control and be able to go to sleep at night we made a rule that Donut could not go up stairs.  After a few days they got used to it and calmed down.  No longer concerned about waking up to him staring them in the eye, they were excited to see where he was each morning and what he had done during the night.