Weird or just 2?

[festivalwidow]

I have a 24 month old DD who is normally a lovely kid. Unlike me, she's a sociable little soul and very confident, whereas one of the hardest aspects of parenthood for me is feeling incredibly self-conscious all the time...
We had a bit of a weird weekend this weekend and I wondered whether the things she is doing are strange/ 'unasseptable behaviour' as Ms Frost would have it, or if it's just par for the course with a 2 year old?

• Flinging herself around
• Inability to sit still for even a second
• Refusing to do as she's asked, when she's been fine about it previously
• Hating sharing to the extent of bursting into tears when asked to share something (which wasn't hers in the first place), yet being perfectly fine about sharing her own things
• Insisting that she's a baby, not a big girl and therefore should sleep in a cot/ use nappies/ lie in her cousin's baby gym (the first two being things she disdained and insisted she was too big for a month ago)
• Inability to make a decision - "want x story, no, want y story not x story, no, want z story not y story, no no no, want x story - tantrum"

She has moved to a different room at nursery, but other than that we haven't had any upheavals lately (no siblings on the way, for example). The flinging tends to happen if we're sitting down or at least not running around - I don't restrain her or anything, but came near to a trip to A&E after she headbutted my nose and a large amount of blood (mine) ensued. It doesn't seem deliberately violent but a sort of accelerated wriggling IYSWIM.

Does this sound normal or should I be doing something? I've started to do a sort of modified version of time-out when there's a standoff and it seems to work OK, but after a fidgety Saturday there are several family members ready to foist remedial parenting books on me (though bizarrely, MIL thinks she's beautifully behaved)...

I would put it down to the room change at nursery. Insisting that she's a baby may be her way of trying to communicate that she wants to go back to the old place. I'd give her a couple of weeks to get used to it (presumably she's also had a change of key worker, and when they move up a room they tend to get less attention) and then see how she's doing.

Sounds perfectly normal to me!! Really she is still a baby so it's understandable that she will act like that

2!

it doesnt make it any easier for you but i'd say she's just being 2 tbh, they don't call it the terrible 2s for nothing!

ha, she sounds like my 2 year old and my 4 year old :o

She sounds identical to my 27 month old boy, though we have recently moved house and had a new baby as well as him moving nursery. It's amazingly frustrating as he can be absolutely lovely too.
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with the indecisiveness? We keep flipping between insisting that he have the book/dinner/clothes that he originally asked for (especially once we've spent half an hour cooking!) or just giving in.

She's just being 2 - they're unreasonable and infuriating with odd flashes of adorableness.

Thanks everyone - reassuring that she's not the only one...
She's now started 'fake' crying for the most bizarre reasons - yesterday we had: because someone else was crying, because she wanted to watch a film rather than have a bath, and because she couldn't put her wellies on over her sandals...
Maybe it's one of those 'crying, cranky and clingy' phases the Wonder Weeks talks about. Nursery have mentioned the fake crying as it's really out of character for her (she does tend to explain why, hence knowing that she was 'sad' because someone else was crying and that she was 'cross' because she couldn't put her wellies on over her sandals).
Bloody tiring though... (looks hard at relatives whose slightly older children 'never did anything like that)

Just 2.