Personality update 2

Kendal lately:

Kendal's version of the toddler tantrum is an open mouth bawl. He's still mild mannered and doesn't get angry. I've never seen him lose control and scream and throw his body on the floor, ever. But he's very fond of crying at the drop of the hat. Everything makes him cry lately. I'm kind of getting desensitized to the sound of his cry. I'm working on being more sympathetic to him, because it seems like that is what he needs.
 He is the self appointed police of everything. On one hand, he's pretty aware of following house rules. On the other hand he is not very nice to Karter. He's also going through a phase where if I ask him to do something, he does one of two things. Thing #1: zero acknowledgement of my existence. Thing #2 is this mouthy, defiant attitude that drives me nuts. Example: "Kendal, please sit in your chair and while you finish eating." "YOU sit in YOUR chair." or "It's time to clean up your toys." "YOU clean up YOUR toys."  *grrrr* Anyway, this kid needs to be a stand up comedian when he grows up, just because of the face expressions this boy can make. He can look like 8 different people just by the faces he can pull.
I don't know if you do this, but sometimes Kyle and I like to speculate what our kids might be good at when they grow up, based on things we see in their personality now. We've been saying that Kizzy could be a nurse ever since she was a baby and we still see that in her. Kendal I can see him being some sort of engineer. He seems to be mechanically minded, and slightly abstract, so maybe an architect. The capability of reading people, or sensing their emotions, or empathizing does not come to this boy naturally, so I don't think he could be in a field where he had to deal with any of that. I'm frequently at a loss of how to teach him that his actions hurt others. He doesn't seem to understand. If I tell him he needs to go to a sibling and say "I'm sorry, how can I make you feel better." he's quick to do it, because he really loves his brother and sister. But getting him to understand that he caused the hurt and he can't do that anymore is where we are struggling. I've told many people this and as he gets older I really think it's true, I think he has OCD. I'm fairly certain it cannot be diagnosed at his age, so all we can do is watch and help him when he gets fixated on something. He's currently doing this really cute, really sweet thing where he'll repeat your name 6 or 7 times before you get a chance to respond. When you finally say "what?" he says, with a sly little smile on his face, "I like you." I love it! It can brighten the grumpiest of moments.