Toddler 'Tudes

Mae is developing in every aspect - physically, mentally, emotionally, etc... She's also developing a little attitude of her own. She's practicing already for her little teenage looks she'll give us when we embarrass her or tell her she can't go out on a school night (or any other night if Jon has anything to say about it!). I think I've even see her eyes roll in the back of her head when I told her not to jump on the couch...
I need to capture these moments on film in order to have a more well-rounded image of Mae at two years old. She's stubborn and testy...she'll stare us down when we tell her to do something in order to say, "Well, what are you going to do if I don't listen to you?" She's really testing us lately to see if we're going to follow through with what we say. We do have high expectations for her, but the majority of what we expect are safety issues: To come to us when we call her, for her to stop running when we tell her to stop (especially in a public place). I'm wondering if she will always test her boundaries...I'm expecting to be in this for the long haul and for her to constantly question our authority at least through the teenage years and perhaps into college. Right now I'm thankful that testing her limits only includes jumping on the bed, bouncing a ball off of Nate's head and coloring outside the lines (that's not really testing her limits, but in her world that's pretty important). I'm good with preschoolers, pretty understandable with school-age kids, but when it comes to teenagers I'm pretty clueless.
I caught glimpses of The Doctors and The View on ABC this morning. Both shows focused on "Secret Lives of Teens."Here are the links to their topics today:

http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/recaps
http://thedoctorstv.com/main/show_page/212

I didn't watch either show in their entirety so I'm not sure of the total content, nonetheless it's daunting from what I was watching. I'll have to go to my brother and his wife (the youth pastors) to get the "low down" (do they say that anymore?) on what's up in the world of teenagers when we reach that point. Today I'm going to color, read "Hide and Seek Little People on the Farm", and enjoy Mae wanting my constant attention. I'll be begging for her attention in a few years...