#4 is making us all nuts.
Er....no. Let's see -
"My fourth-born child is causing us all an inordinate amount of anxiety, the possible outcome of which may result in some degree of mental illness or instability".
#4 is suddenly even more interested in words than he was before, and although usually we can understand him, he sounds like a little professor. Example: after Delia and Brian bravely took us to a restaurant whose main attraction is a million flavours of ice cream, #4 began comparing other ice cream places - "How interesting that you also sell banana splits, which are a quintessential offering of any dessert menu."
Followed by the other three rolling their eyes, and the waitress trying her darndest not to laugh.
It's gotten even worse with the words and phrases which he uses incorrectly, the word 'irony' being a case in point. "I find it so ironic,"he muses,"that it is not only Wednesday but the sun is shining as well". And becomes irritated if anyone tries to explain the actual meaning of irony.
He hit a new low at graduation. He was really interested in the various speeches given by the grads and their families. "All of these students were so well-spoken, and they all had above-average vocabularies as well" he said after the ceremony. "With one exception. The lady who spoke first said,"WAy back when I began to start this school..." when it should have been "When I began the school..."
The lady in question was the founder and principal of the school. She is brilliant and has a Ph.D. in ed. from a really prestigious school. #4 needs to be sent to his room until he's thrity.
When Poe ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
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