today has been insane. ellen seems to be turning into a typical two year old and trying my patience to no end. she's smart though, i'll give her that. she waits until i'm nursing isaiah or trying to rock him to sleep and then gets into all kinds of trouble. today she started by drawing all over her favorite book. she absolutely knows that's a 'bad choice'. so the book and crayons went on top of the bookcase and no more book or drawing for the rest of the day. then, the next time i was feeding isaiah, she ran into the other room and i could hear her doing something very quietly. i knew she was trying to get away with something, but she'd never really gotten into serious trouble, so i pretended i was oblivious. turns out that was a bad choice on my part. she decided it was finally time to taste the 'medicines' we use for isaiah's diaper rash. so while isaiah is screaming in his crib, because he didn't get the chance to fall completely asleep, i'm on the phone with poison control trying to wipe the hydrocortisone out of ellen's mouth. she's fine. she just tasted it i think. (she came running back to where i was - "medicine, mouth! yuck.") right now she's sleeping because i couldn't take any more and told her she had to go to bed, and i'm shocked to hear that she actually fell asleep.