My very favorite complicated word is “flocciniaucinihilipilifilification” and I’ve taught it to the Grandboy as well. He can pronounce it, define it, spell it and, providing a print Oxford Unabridged is available, he can prove it exists. It has the great advantage of being a Google-stumper, as well as just being a cool word. The pocket definition is “the habit or practice of describing everything as nothing,” which I bet Carrot can pretty well discern from breaking it down into its component Latin roots. Perhaps you can now better understand why the Grandboy has been known to make teachers cry. 
More mundanely, I use “egregious” all the time because it’s a fabulous word. I also like “reprehensible,” “tawdry,” “rapscallion,” “impugn,” and “miscegenation.” I treasure my sesquipedalian vocabulary and am always on the lookout for more fun words to annoy others with.
Well, Bear gave me an early morning panic attack by whipping his big old head around and knocking my laptop onto the floor. He was very, very sorry but says it’s not his fault that nature made him a jughead with too much enthusiasm. No harm done but it did get the old blood moving and prior to caffeine imbibement that’s not necessarily a good thing.
I still have not procured a scale so that’s on my morning to-do list. I’d sure rather borrow one than own one but nobody has a spare. Darn it. Well, at least we can find out for certain exactly how much Pratchett weighs–we’ve been thinking of hauling him in to PetSmart on a leash to decide the issue but that would probably be very hard on the dogs in the store. I’m sure most of them expect cats to run from them, just as I’m sure they don’t expect cats to be quite that huge.
{{{mousie}}} Good luck to Grandpa!
MBG, I weaned the Grandboy off of using “poopyhead” by teaching him to replace it with “scheisskopf.” I’m a great believer in swearing in other languages especially for kids–he’s not allowed to swear in Spanish, though, since it’s so idiomatic that the same word can be fairly innocuous to absolutely filthy depending on context and none of us speak it well enough to guarantee a lack of offense. Too many native speakers around, anyway, best to stick to more obscure languages.
Boy howdy there Bobbio, we can sure see where YOU rate in your house! Damn, sleeping on a futon AND murdered mousies? Yuck.
Glad to hear things are going well, Haze!
Gnrph, shower time…