The Terrible Twos ??

 As I was leaving the supermarket today the cashier looked at my son and said " I remember you from yesterday your a mischievous one aren't you ?"  then she looked at me and said " you are going to have your hands full" and laughed. I then thought ,Going to have my hands full?  Nathaniel is a wonderful little boy dont get me wrong he is well behaved most of the time and most people say I am lucky.  But recently he has been a little more into everything than usual. Hes now climbing on everything and anything and if he can climb in it guess where you will find him, yelling when he gets frustrated and cant do something, hitting other children and my favorite looking at people and throwing his cup or whatever he has at the time at them to see if they will pick it up for him.  Is this the start of the terrible twos? and if so how do I stop it lol..
 I have tried time outs and well to be honest with an 18 month old putting them in a chair for 30 seconds seems like eons but doesn't seem to get the message across. I have tried the distraction method which doesn't work anymore like it use to, the take away method leaves you with a screaming toddler.  So far the only thing that works is bringing out the vacuum and let him push it around or give him the broom and he is content and not into anything for a good 15 - 20 minutes.  The only downside is when I have to take that away.   I have now started getting in the habit of telling him the broom or vacuum needs to go night night and we will see it later, and that seems to be working for now but for how much longer.
The terrible twos? Probably .. Now excuse me while i get my son off of the kitchen table.. Guess who figured out how to push the chairs back up to it ;)