It's official. She is now into the terrible 2s!

Wow! Naomi has turned 2 yrs old! The older she gets, the cutter and funner she gets too, as well as rebellious. It's almost as if she purposely wants to do the opposite of what I need her to do at times. I read that this is normal at this age and that a good strategy to avoid some of the battles is by, in my words, "tricking" her to think that it was her idea, or changing the scenario and again tricking her to think that she is in control. For example; sometimes when we're about to leave she will give me a hard time to let me put her shoes on. So I ask her "do you want to go the park?" and she will say "yes" so I say "mami needs to put your shoes on first before we go to the park" and then she will let me. Or, for time out I will put her in the crib, so if she's behaving bad all I have to ask her is if she wants to go in the crib and then she'll stop, if she doesn't, then "bye-bye" she goes in the crib. It's hard at times to the point that I'm continuously making a conscious effort to be patient and not melt down with her. She is so cute though, and a lot better tempered than other kids her age we know. Anyway, going back to her b-day. We had a little party for her. The family was invited and a few other friends who have babies around her age. The babies seemed to have a lot of fun. It's hard to organize something at this time of the year when it's not very cold, but still not warm enough to do something outside and our house is only big enough to hold a couple more people besides the 4 of us. Anyway, I think it went good. I am learning every year of the do's and don'ts when having a b-day party. Looking forward to another year of fun!