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This year we started the "Elf on the Shelf" book / tradition. Ben named his Elf "Pickle Head" and even after trying to tell him how awesome another name would be pickle head has stuck! Pickle Head is definitely performing his function. Whenever Ben needs to perform a "bad act" he will leave the room where Pickle Head is residing for the day. If I ask him to do something and oddly enough he obliges he will conveniently ask me if we can "put his shoes on in the living room (insert whichever room Pickle Head is located at the time). " Thank you Pickle Head for making my 3 year old obey slightly more often!