Jekyll & Hyde

Sorry for the lack of pictures lately. I have plenty to put on here, but I'm having some laptop cord issues and it is more difficult to get them up right now. Have no fear, there is another cord on the way!

Ava has picked up coloring like a baby Van Gogh. It started as something to keep her busy while we were in Doni's classroom. Now its nearly an obsession. The last two nights she has been carrying around a crayon, pencil, and, on occasion, pen nearly the entire time between dinner and bed. There are papers on our fridge that she brings home from the babysitter's. She grabs these and her coloring instruments and goes to town. It's really pretty humorous. She will set the paper on the floor and scribble. Ten seconds later she will pick it up and start scribbling with her paper on the coffee table. Then she goes to another part of the floor and scribbles some more. She bounces around like a hummingbird in a land full of hummingbird feeders.

The problem comes when it is time to put her beloved writing utensils away. We have to be careful when she has a pen because sometimes she likes to use the couch to support her paper. Not a good combination. Last night this led to our first official "fit". Now, I had thought that Ava had had fits before..... No, no, no, no. THIS... was a fit. Screaming, flailing arms and legs, a refusal to cooperate.... and that's not even getting into what she did! *cue rimshot*

Who would have thought the Terrible-Twos would have come five months early? I don't know if she decided to assert herself because she turned 17 months old yesterday or what, but this is definitely a new chapter. Her fit continued through her entire bath and into the time spent drying her off. As we walked out of her bedroom after laying her down for the night early, I told Doni, "I'm sure glad you're not pregnant right now."