Batman on the Shelf

I've been quite disappointed over the last couple of years that my kids are too old for the Elf on the Shelf, that is sweeping Facebook and Pinterest.  He looks like so much fun! So this year, I decided that we needed to do our own, teenager version of the Elf on the Shelf.  So I got online and ordered an allegedly poseable Batman and a Joker, in case we wanted to mix it up a bit.

Batman and Joker arrived rappelling from the ceiling fan on dental floss with this note, and have proceeded to display their antics everynight:

Playing Battleship--although the girls pointed out that none of the hits actually matched where the ships are.  Oops.

Breaking into the Lucky Charms (By the way, I had no idea we even had Lucky Charms.  The twins went to the grocery store and I let them pick from the cereal that was on sale and obviously was not paying attention to what they threw into the cart.  But it is a great late night snack.)

The girls wanted to know how Batman was able to spell out HELP when he doesn't actually have superpowers.  Could they be a little less analytical, please? (No, the table's not dirty, just beat up.  Yes, I need to replace it.)

Anyway, I was driving the twins and their friend to an event last week, and they were showing the friend our Batman pictures (and one of TT posing with Satan while in New Orleans, and one of PS pretending to cut her dad's head off  with a saw at the Christmas Tree far) and the friend said, your family is...interesting. 

I think she meant it as a compliment.  At least, that's how I'm going to take it.