They fight

The girls like to fight. Mostly they fight over toys. Sometimes when Lilly is tired she'll just walk up to Sophia and hit her. She'll hit her in the head, arm, chest, leg, etc. She's not picky. This blurry photo may look like Sophia is picking on Lilly, but really it's the other way around.

I've seen Sophia squeeze Lilly's arm when she wants to get Lilly back, but usually she tries to "ignore" it at first. Often instead of hitting back she usually tries to pry Lilly's hand off of the toy in question. Lately she's been hugging the heck out of Lilly - in a good way. Just today I saw them both sitting on the floor and Sophia was hugging her sister with a grin on her face and closed eyes. It was the cutest thing I've ever seen.

Today Sophia went into Lilly's room and took this dollhouse. She brought it downstairs and started to play with it. Lilly wasn't going to stand for that! She marched right over to Sophia and pushed and pinched her. She had to sit in a time out.

Lilly was hitting me in the face today while we were in Target and no matter what I said to her she just wouldn't stop. She was frustrated because I wouldn't let her walk, but when I do she runs off and pulls things off the racks. She threw a fit about sitting in the cart so I was forced to carry her. She was arching her back and wriggling to get away from me and yelling NO. Talk about making a scene.

Her behavior has been really bad lately, but then again, she will be 2 in a month. I think she's going to be a pistol by the time she's 2 and 1/2.