Weekend Weirdos

My kids are total weirdos. I love them and embrace their oddness.

First off, now that Christmas is so over that even the kids announce "Christmas is closed", I remembered we have a train gingerbread thing. So, we made it and it lasted approximately 4.5 minutes before we ate it. Every single crumb - gone.Jeremy has taken to stealing Violet's toys. Here he is reading her favorite book. You would think he is reading to her, but he kept pushing her over so that he could have alone time with her lift-a-flap baby book.My girl. Orange stained face from sweet potatoes, bare legs in winter, pretending a bathing suit cover-up I got on clearance is a real dress, playing with trains and a baby doll, oh and sweet potatoes on her socks and fake dress as well.We are classy here in the Hopper House. That's right, girlfriend, get comfy. This is her favorite position when eating.I got tons of advice when we began our train journey to super glue the tracks down, number them, screw them to the table, etc. Parents told me how much they hated having to fix the tracks for the kids, etc. Well, I gotta say I disagree. This is how we spend our weekends. We do a new track layout and act out new stories with the different destinations. This one was downstairs for two weeks before we created a new layout upstairs on the train table. And it is not that big of a problem because Jeremy does it himself. He set this one up on his own. Some of the tracks don't go anywhere and some turns are not possible and overpasses too low, but he loves it and was crazy proud of it.Jeremy has finally taken an interest in learning how to play baseball. I am signing him up to play on a team with William, coached by William's dad Ben! It should be fun, but I have from now until April to get him to step and throw off the correct foot, catch with two hands, stop swinging a bat like an axe, and refrain from falling on the ground in an attempt to emulate a diving catch every time a ball comes his direction. Wish me luck.We introduced Jeremy to Netflix this weekend. He got the movie Space Buddies (ugh) and watched it 45 times in one day. I got sick of it so I pretended the mailman needed it back on Sunday. I am that mom. He then picked Unstoppable online and after clicking the button he immediately ran to the mailbox to see if it was there. Obviously, it was not and Space Buddies was, so that took some explaining. He checked the mailbox no less than 20 times.He is obsessed with Unstoppable. My parents have it in Memphis, but I have refused to buy it since he is so obsessed. This will be the first time he watches it in our home. There is a train in every single shot of the movie. He started watching previews of it on youtube, so I decided we might as well give in. He thinks the characters, Frank, Will, and Connie, are his friends and he talks about 1206 and 777 (the trains) at school so much that his teachers have asked me what it means. Normal kids talk about cartoons or real friends. My son talks about Triple 7 careening down the tracks attempting to kill people. Jealous?And finally, yesterday Jeremy fell asleep on me at 4pm. I let him go to bed with the intention of getting him up for church around 5:15 (we usually attend mass at 6pm since it fits Vi's schedule better). He was so dead asleep that I stayed home while Brian and Viley did the church duty without us. I tried two more times to wake him up to no avail. Finally, after Brian was in bed and I was on my way, I hear a little monster running down the stairs -fully awake, full of energy, ready to play. "Sniff, sniff, Something smells tasty!" Jumps on the couch. "Oh, football!" Grabs his football and falls on the ground. "Mommy, I need some food. I want bacon." Runs around in circles like a maniac.

He got a peanut butter sandwich and was sent back to bed. He slept until 7am.

Weirdo.