SS11's behavior took a turn at the end of last week/beginning of this week. DH thinks SS got comfortable and now he is showing his true colors. He has been entitled, extremely cocky, challenging to authority, and views himself as an equal to adults. I was having a conversation with my Mom and SS felt inclined to interject and start poking fun at my Mom... No sir. DH has corrected him multiple times this week about butting out of other people's business, staying out of adult conversations, being respectful, etc.

On Sunday, BM and GF called SS. SS tried to go out to the yard in the pouring rain to take their call in privacy. DH told SS "No" and made him sit in the other room. SS told BM and GF that he got super sunburned, which of course sent BM into a tangent: "make sure they are reapplying, make sure they are giving you after sun" bullshit. SS has not been the slightest bit sunburned this entire trip. We have used an SPF 50+ zinc based sunscreen and reapplied plentifully. This kid has a golden farmer's tan - no peeling, no redness, no bumps. I was pissed. We called SS out on his "sunburn" and he swears up and down that he was burned and got mad at DH for challenging that fact. Then the next day, he was arguing with DH about why all cars aren't convertibles like SS thinks they should be. DH listed off a variety of reasons and then said that some people don't want to get "sunburned" and SS said "Oh I never get sunburned so that's not a problem for me." DH called him on it and said, "You told your Mom last night that you got super burned." SS didn't say anything.

DH and DD both got strep throat this trip. Both went to urgent care and got antibiotics. SS has shown no sign of illness. DD developed a junky cough and my Mom made a comment that it "sounded croupy." SS lost his damn mind, going on how he has chronic croup, which is why the throat scope (which came back inconclusive) was needed and he needs his medication (the script that he didn't use in a year and a half). SS went on and on about how he was going to get sick and OMG. 

Last night, after dinner, we stopped by the bocce courts to play a game. We were outside at dusk for a maximum of 20 minutes. Halfway through, SS starts jumping around, freaking out about mosquitoes. Of course, we didn't have bug spray on us because we were coming back from dinner and who carries that around? SS was going on and on about being highly allergic, which is bullshit. We told SS that it isn't a big deal if he gets one or two mosquito bites. We told him he could stop playing and we could go home or he could keep playing. He kept playing. Today, DH and I were packing up and DH came across SS' ipod touch. The search engine history said "Are mosquitoes more likely to land on people who are allergic?" "Signs of being allergic to mosquitoes" "why do mosquitoes land on some people more than others" and "What are lesions?" ARE YOU F***ING KIDDING ME? DH confiscated the ipod touch for now. 

So basically, this kid doesn't trust us worth a damn and doesn't trust us to actually take care of him. I want to call him out on it but don't even know if it's worth it or a good idea. I have half a brain to tell SS that if he doesn't trust us to look out for him, he can stay at BM's. DH doesn't want to say anything because he doesn't want to act like we were snooping in his browser history. I am so sick of this kid being an entitled, better than everyone, hypochondriac. We are constantly having to walk on eggshells to make sure we don't set him off and therefore set BM off. I know SS is going to go back to BM's house and tell her all about this "sunburn" and "croup risk" and "mosquito bites," all of which don't exist and then we are going to have to deal with BM and her false allegations and further alienation tactics. SS goes home Saturday and comes back every other week through the first week of July and I'm already ready for summer to be over.