YEAH two...

Anyone who has a 2 year old or older knows that you can have the most perfect, mild mannered child...and then they turn two. For us, two has been a turning point for Tyler. I won’t say that Tyler is bad by any stretch, but he has definitely been testing our patience more often now than ever before. I also won’t say that he was without fault prior to turning two, it's just that now he thinks about it and knows he's doing something to "test" us. So he’s just trying to see if we’ll change our minds after he throws a fit, or if he ignores us enough then we’ll stop calling him or asking him a question...and my favorite, if he pretends not to hear us say he should stop doing something then maybe we’ll decide it’s okay for him to continue to do it.

With all that being said, I have no clue what prompted the time-out from the picture below (any number of two-year-old antics I suppose)...but apparently it was wearing on our poor little guy. He was done crying and when John looked over at him, this is what he saw.

Isn’t it hard to be a two-year-old in this day and age?

The picture below is just one reason I had to break out my child-proof door knob covers recently. A while back Tyler figured out he could stand on things in the pantry and get his own snacks. While this is highly discouraged by John and I, it’s just another twoism that we have discovered.

He was actually stuck and calling me to help him. Just after I took the pictures (through my laughter) he decided he wasn’t waiting for me to help him anymore. He leaned back and put his hands on boxes he had used to step up in the first place and swung his feet out and did some strange backward roll that dislodged him from his precarious situation without hurting himself. It was pretty impressive.