Oh the woe's of having a two year old!!!

Ok, so what is with the age of two??? Cara has turned into a terror!!! She is such a sweet little girl sometimes, and then, I will hear Alex screaming bloody murder, I go and check on the and she has him pinned up against a wall, beating him in the head with a pencil. What is that all about?!?!?

Her patience has gone from a little bit to NONE. If she can't get something on the first try, she crumples to the floor in agonizing wails...

The words "mine" and "gimme" have become a permanent addition to her very small vocabulary.

She will get upset or exasperated with something and run and flop herself on her bed and cry.

She thinks that the only thing edible in the world is noodles and pizza...both preferably dipped in ranch.

She has defenite likes and dislikes about her wardrobe. There are some things that make her go into absolute fits if you make her wear it.

She likes to walk up and down our three flights of stairs by herself. This is a good thing...however...she thinks she needs to walk without holding onto anything, she likes to jump down the stairs, she flips out if you even offer to hold her hand, and she likes to make sure she keeps eye contact with Alex the entire way down. Seriously???

She has decided that playing with other kids is over rated. She thinks that they are all out to get whatever toy she is playing with. If they come at her in any direction, she immediatly puts what she is playing with down her shirt!!

We have had SUCH character and obedience training these last few weeks!!! I keep thinking that she will wake up one day and be the perfect child....ha ha ha. Continual training is the key...hopefully!!!

All of this aside, she really is a good girl. Her first thoughts in the morning when she wakes up are Alex. She loves to go and help me wake him up and get him out of bed. She loves to make sure he gets the same snacks that she does. She loves to make him laugh. They are getting to the point where they can actually play together. It just melts my heart!!

She is in full-on potty training mode. She changes her own pull up...we are switching to panties as soon as they get here in the mail :)

She helps me clean up throughout the house.

She is back to sleeping so fabulously through the night.

She eats her noodles and pizza very very well.

I love to watch her dance and sing (very off key). She loves anything princess right now. I think her favorite dance to watch is at the very very end of Sleeping Beauty. She can hardly stand the excitment of that! Its so adorable :)

She really really has some awesomely great moments.....but she really has some awesomely horrid moments too. I am just glad she loves Alex. I really don't think she is trying to be mean to him (like hitting him in the head with a pencil). She just really loves to play with him. She still gets disciplined for it, though. Today I actually thunked her in the head with the pencil once before I threw it away, spanked her and put her in the corner. I think she may have got the point. I hope so....

Well, this was a post where I have no life lessons that I've learned yet. I am hoping to post a great and fabulous update in a few weeks on how well our training is going......