Terrible Twos

Troy has grown quite emotional lately.  He'll cry for no reason at all, and I mean full-on tantrum cry.  Like today, for example, he was trying to get from one part of his fort to another, and I told him he had to sit down first and scoot over the edge.  He burst into tears.  

He also cries if he doesn't get his way.  He used to rise to the challenge and try harder, now he just gives up immediately and starts crying.  We were upstairs the other day, running around and playing with his ball.  I was playing keep-away to help improve his speed and agility.  I guess I took it too far, because he started crying to his mama that I was being mean.

We all knew this was coming, and all of the experts that I have researched have said that you just need to reassure them that these feelings are okay.  They are struggling with all of these new things, and they don't always know how to express themselves.  But I'm not going to lie, I have not had the patience to deal with this.  Maybe it's just bad timing, since I'm having a bad time at work, so my stress level is already on the ragged edge.  Maybe I just need to retrain my logical mind that none of this will make sense, but I need to help him through it anyway.  I feel like this is going to be the hardest stage yet.