So Proud

We've had a fairly eventful January, but we won't go into the details--lots going on in the McGuirk Family right now, but we don't want to jinx things by celebrating too early.  Hopefully in February we will be able to post about some of the pending developments.  For now, we haven't been doing too much around the house.  A lot of naps fill our weekends.

Evidently Joey and Harley seem to think they own the place and can sleep on whatever bed they want. Sadly, we let them get away with this, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.

Bode has had an up-and-down month.  Per previous posts, he spent some quality time in ski school.  I failed to mention one particular episode that happened after ski school.  We were walking back to our condo, and we passed a family.  One little girl about Bode's age was bawling tears.  She was tired and didn't want to carry her skis.  Bode heard this, went up to the girl, and carried her skis all the way back to our condo (this family was staying in the same building we were).  Ashley and I were very proud of our little man--so thoughtful and considerate.  Yes, so proud...until one day this week when we received the following from the school:

Certainly not something we liked reading.   We had a good talk with Bode.  Fortunately, the phrase, "We are very disappointed in you" affects him (either that or he's a good actor).  Bode wrote a letter of apology, and he's behaved since this incident.  Here's hoping he stays out of "consequence alley."

Finally, we are back to being proud because Bode learned a new trick:

Yes, the infamous arm-pit fart.  We are just tickled to death when we see Bode standing in line with his schoolmates, all of them laughing because Bode's doing this wonderful noise-maker.  We had to explain this talent is either 1) done at home or 2) on the playground at school.  He is to NEVER do this in the classroom.  We've yet to receive a second letter from the school; we will see what happens.

Super Bowl is tomorrow.  We don't like neither of the teams.  If only both could lose :-)  Pleasant week to all.