See my post upthread.
Mom has three of them too! Hers are the same body style, but the outfit and head painting are different. I’ll try to post a picture tonight.
I can’t believe that I read this whole thread and no one has linked to The Bloggess yet.
The Elf told me to burn you in your sleep.
I just looked at the HLNtv site, and was interested to note these other stories listed on the same page:
What wondrous times we live in.
Elfie watches you masturbate.
I was coming in to post that! And now I’m here I’ll mention that as a parent of a 3 year old I don’t know anyone who’s doing this. Clearly it’s too hot for Elf in Australia.
Never heard of this trend.
But it surprises me that anyone is surprised that people use a social media site to impress their friends.
Funny enough, I told the parents that story and said they ned to watch out for the Elf saying things like, “It puts the lotion on the skin!”
Yes, yes he does (Hulu link to cut Weekend Update segment).
This is the kind of shit that makes me wish that Facebook would have an option to block all child-related posts. I’ve never even seen this Elfie crap, but I can’t stand seeing people’s pictures of their ugly babies, stories of what their stupid babies did that day, etc.
"I’m a friggin’ snitch, and I LOVE it!"
I hadn’t heard of this until last night. It sounds like an awful lot of work to me.
I must get an updated dictionary, I don’t see anything in the “Tradition” entry defining it as a creepy marketing scheme.
Actually, it does remind me of a New Year’s tradition… but, well, not an American one.
He’s gonna need some thicker glasses.
I finally got a picture of one of Mom’s elves…excuse the screen flash. 
THAT’S the one that was watching me masturbate!
I can tell by that smile…
But…why is he looking in my direction? 