DS2 read parts of his birthday cards in front of my in-laws (and other family), dispelling all former snide suggestions about a previously not-quite-2-year-old not being able to read. He sounded out "Gap" and "Tonka" phonetically, and on film, too.

Subversive MIL might have needed to change herself. You might catch a whiff of something in my writing...schadenfreude.