My daughter is EXACTLY like me...sometimes.

Sometimes I watch Katie play and think "wow, she is exactly like me." This thought is a little scary since it is her extreme independance and her strong will that are most noticable. She also throws some of the best tantrums I have ever seen from someone her size - including scratching(herself), biting (herself) and pulling hair (her own). Her tantrums almost always stem from anger at not getting her way (sound familiar?) instead of frustration with not being able to do something. She loves coloring and likes to have her blanket with her a lot of the time. She can't put her arm and leg through hers since there are no holes but she will carry it on her head or under her chin if she needs her hands. At night she asks to go to bed on her own and when I put her down she just gives me a kiss and a "night-night" and lays down. But then sometimes she is not like me at all.....
She wakes up in the morning (in a good mood) and the first thing she wants to do is put her shoes on. It doesn't matter if we are going anywhere or not, she wants to wear her shoes. "Shoes? shoes?" If I do put them on she is by the door "Bye-bye?" If I say no then here comes the tantrum. Once she understands that her stubbornness came from me and she won't win she does a lot of her playing on her own but stops often for kisses and cuddles. A lot of her playing involves shoes (nobody in this house can ever find our shoes where we left them- I found mine in a box under a buch of other stuff the other day). She is also extremely friendly. She wants to talk to and be picked up by just about anybody. She tries open the door and walk into other people's houses if they do not answer it themselves. But really its the shoes that make me wonder "who's kid is this anyway?"