Amid the urine and Pokemon obsession comes a glimmer of hope.

To paraphrase the great quote from Al Michaels in the 1980 Winter Olympics:

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?!?!

They may come home on yellow everyday, but they haven't missed a day so far and both got, wait for it.......

Academic Awards at school today.

So Trot can't go to the bathroom without hollering his head off or pinched that little girl the other day or wanders off to the science lab for 20 minutes at a time; he got most improved in Math!

And even though Rakes can't sit still, his desk area at school looks like a small explosive device went off and leaves his lunchbox at school roughly 3 times a week; he got the advanced reader award for 2nd grade!

I still think they'll end up as the stars of "Jackass" someday, but maybe, JUST maybe they can somehow win an Oscar doing it.