More Blinky Hijinx..

Blinky is still up to his old tricks.. over the last couple of nights, he's snapped this picture with the Boss..


.. and made a mess out of Aidan's dresser drawers!

oh yeah, and..

Blinky brought new Christmas-time bath towels for the boys..

Blinky's baaaaack...

You might remember Blinky from last year. He's an elf from the North Pole who came to join us for a few weeks before Christmas. His stated mission was to keep an eye on the boys and report back to Santa if any last minute changes in plans regarding present delivery needed to be made based on behavior and so forth. But as we saw last year, Blinky seems intent on mischief as anything else while he's here.
When he left us last Christmas Eve, the boys begged us to tell Santa that we'd allow him to come back if he wanted. We made him promise that there would be no more grand theft auto..

So he's back.. and he's back up to his old tricks..

pulling out all the Sale papers..

and he dragged out all the Christmas movies

a few mornings ago, we came downstairs to find that he had spent the night playing with a bunch of the boys' Transformers..

and of course he found the camera and took a cheezeball self-portrait..

and then he toilet-papered the Christmas Tree.. (see him up there near the top?)

I have a bad feeling about this...

The Infamous Sonic Run

Chief in the annals of Blink's mischief is the recently famous "Late Night Sonic Run of Blinky Sugarplum."
We woke up on Christmas Eve morning and the boys, as they usually did, scoured the house looking for Blinky, to see what he might have gotten up to the night before. Very quickly, they realized that Blinky was nowhere to be found in the house... and that's when someone noticed something odd about how the van was parked in the driveway outside...
The boys threw on their shoes and jackets and ran out through garage to see what had happened.... sure enough, the van was parked at a severe angle in the driveway. I'm afraid the neighbors must have figured we'd attended quite a Christmas party the night before.

As we got closer, things started to become clear....







And there he was, with the evidence of his fast-food excursion littered all around him... little bugger.

Thanks for everything, Blinky!

Well, now that Christmas is over, our visitor from the North Pole has gone back home with the elf in red, the Big SC... and the boys are a little forlorn about it. But on Christmas morning, Blinky left them a note telling them that he had a great time and that he's going to request to be assigned to our house again next year, as long as it's okay with us. Aidan has already composed a response to put in the mail letting Blinky know that we're looking forward to seeing him again next year.

Great time, indeed. The boys are enjoying looking back at the pictures and remembering all the mischief that Blinky got up to.

Aidan setting out Blinky's nightly snack of milk and crackers

One morning, we woke up to find Blinky had rolled the bathroom...

... and we came home one day to find Blinky had scaled the wall in Aidan's room using Bryce's Batman Grappling hook!