I'm quite certain that I have selective memory. I really and truly don't remember Madelyn screaming her way through toddlerhood - but it's gotta be selective memory.
We always joke that Sienna has been in the "terrible twos" since about 12 months, when she started getting pretty verbal. But that was NOTHING compared to now...she can talk up a storm, but why talk when you can scream at the top of your lungs? Funny thing is that it's just as often a shriek -- which can easily be a happy sound -- as it is a scream of madness or frustration. She and Madelyn have taken to having screaming matches, where they get louder and louder trying to out-shriek eachother. They think it's absolutely hysterical...but man is it loud around here!