Those Crazy Kagle Boys
It was crazy hot both Friday and Saturday but by Sunday our typical Bay Area weather returned.
Adlai, the six month old, can't crawl but can get to anything with controlled rolling, foot-thump-rotating, side lying, scooting, and amazing grabbing skills. He thinks about crawling from time to time but, since he isn't having any trouble getting around, he isn't obsessed with it (like our other baby). Every few days we switch him to a new food. He eats everything. The only way to tell that something isn't going over well is that he stops and cries after about five minutes of eating. If he loves something, he cries after about five minutes because the food isn't coming in a constant stream. We introduced a sippy cup during the hot weather and he took to it right away. He doesn't hold it by himself but sucks water from the hard plastic spout when offered. He's fairly consistent about going to sleep by 7 pm and waking between 4:30 and 5 am (ouch). We've tried putting him to bed later with the idea that he'd sleep in a little but, no, he still wakes up at the same time.
Simon, the four year old, has been challenging us with increasingly difficult questions. On Saturday alone he asked for the technical details of baby making, circumcision, and why the universe exists. He was the only kid at his soccer class that had never played or seen serious soccer before. When the coach told everyone to stand on the orange line, Simon was the only child to speak up: "But why is the line orange?" When the coach told the kids that the cones were a flower garden and they should kick the ball to the other coach to get a ring to place on the cone to "water" the flowers, Simon was the only child to stop the coach for conversation "I don't think this is a flower garden, it's a more like a vegetable garden." We were amused. I'm not sure the coaches (young hard-core soccer guys) found Simon quite as entertaining.