My 2-Year Old Teenage Daughter

Elayna is truly growing and learning at an exponential rate.  Daily she has new words, sentences, or can figure out amazing tasks without help.  She can mostly dress herself, is mostly potty-trained (we still have a few accidents), and daily adds new words to her vocabulary (bagel?  Christmas tree?).  I’m awed by her every day.

Not so amazing:  a few teenager-ish behaviors.  Including:

• Turning on and off any light-switch – usually in the room we’re in just to annoy us.  It’s like a disco around our house.
• Prancing with her hands on her hips.  I rather love this one – I think she’s adorable as a diva.
• Storming in a huff to her room and slamming her door.  I believe this is her new temper tantrum … and actually very effective outlet for her frustration.  It also saves us from enforcing the time out.
• Fun new saying like “Mommy, leave me alone”, “I do it!”, and “DON’T WANT IT!”

Of course, she makes up for her little outbursts with a lot of love, kisses, and “See ya soon!”s. She really is pretty adorable.