The Elf on the Shelf

I got this for Owen today after hearing about it from a friend. It comes with a book that tells you that you've adopted the elf into your family and that he will live at your house for the month of December. Every night while you sleep, he flies back to see Santa to tell him if you've been good or bad that day. And each morning when Owen wakes up he has to go look around the house to see where his elf landed for that day. Owen of course loves it BUT after putting him up in the kitchen this evening, I walked by and decided that while cute, he's creepy. Maybe it's my long standing fear of clowns but I actually felt like the thing was watching me!!!!! Owen also got to name the elf and it started out as Namey (sound familiar???) but ended up Rainbow. So Rainbow the Christmas Elf will be watching us for the next few weeks.