Opie returns...

We had a couple of interesting (albiet photoless) days with Opie.  On day 2 in our house Livy touched Opie and Opie lost her Christmas magic.  She went back to the North Pole to Santa where she had to stay because without Christmas magic, she couldn't come back to watch over Livy and Payton.  So it was looking like we wouldn't have a Christmas elf this year. 

Fortunately, Livy and I wrote a letter to Santa asking if he could give Opie back her Christmas magic and Livy vowed to not touch Opie again.

The next morning (after a day hiatus) Opie returned with a little note to Olivia (and Payton) that Santa was giving us one more try. 

This morning we woke to Opie here:

Like Grandpa Dave Opie likes her solitare...but we also learned that Opie also likes to cheat...so there will be no playing Poker with her (we figure we now have a mulligan since Opie won't want us reporting this back to Santa).

Livy has been so good by not touching Opie and this morning when she saw Opie playing cards she wanted to play cards with her.  Knowing she can't touch Opie she settled on playing cards beside her: