The Shelf Elf, discussed.

ADDIE: We found Elf On The Shelf today! He was up on the little shelf thing hanging on the wall.  In the kitchen!  His name is Freddy.

The Elf On The Shelf is from the North Pole.  Because when you get your Christmas tree he comes.  He can see through walls to see if we're bad or good and then he comes tell Santa. He's Santa's little helper.  

MAEVE: You can't touch him. And he watches over you.  He has a red suit and brown hair and a white collar and a red shirt.  And I don't know why he doesn't have hands or feet.  He hides every single day in a different spot and it's very hard to find him.  If you touch him he'll lose his magic and he can't fly back to Santa.  

A: Or talk and do stuff.  The Garvey family named him Freddy.

M: Once he was hidden the first time we saw him he was hiding on the window right down the big stairs.  He has also hidden on the...

Dad, what is that thing called in the kitchen that Addie talked about at the beginning of this thing?

D: The spice rack.

M: and then the next day he hid on the spice rat.  I do not remember where he hid last year.  

A: There was a cartoon about the elf on the shelf!  My favorite part was the girl how she went up and twirled around and then went back down... [whispers] It was so... pretty...