Yes, we had the terrible 1s (when DS7 wasn't yet very skilled at telling us what he needed) and the terrible 3.5-4.5s. The twos were mostly a dream!
With DS4, not much has been a dream...Though he's also much more cuddly and affectionate than DS7, and I describe him as "sunshine on a stick" when he's happy. He lights up a room like no other kid I've ever seen! his pre-K teachers noticed it, too. Very extreme: extremely happy or extremely unhappy, swinging on a moment's notice from one to another, with nothing much in between. When he was a toddler, DH and I used to call him "bipolar baby," actually.
(No offense intended to anyone suffering from the real thing, of course.)
We take the good with the bad, I suppose...
