It will look like independence one day, right?

So, for those that KNOW Jose, you know that he is quite stubborn.  It's part OCD, and part he's so strong willed! Ugh!  Every day (ok, maybe like two weeks out of four months...ok, three weeks out of four months...) is a show down.  I feel like I'm in a John Wayne western.  It's high clean up time, we square up on either side of the completely disassembled train table, I tell him to please clean up, he narrows his eyes, puts his hands on his hips, and very stubbornly says, "No, I don't wanna clean up!"  UGH! WHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY!  It doesn't matter what it is, he only wants to do what he wants to do.  And no amount of punishment, bribery, time-outs, etc. work.  Every day is a show down, a battle of the wills, and it is exhausting!  All I can do is keep getting, "You can do it!" from his sitter, support from my BFF Tasha (yes, her name is just Tasha),  and give my Mom the satisfaction of knowing that I am getting my pay back for being the same child.  I can look 10 years down the road and see how this attribute will pay off.  He will only do what makes him happy, he won't be a follower, he will stand up for himself, and he will be a great man for it.  Right now?  Right NOW?!  It's driving me crazy!  I just need him to listen and do what is asked of him!  Wait...that doesn't happen does it?  Nope...sigh...I guess all I can do is what my mom did.   Keep on keeping on, stay the firm course, love the heck out of him, and wait for him to get his pay back.  That'll be hilarious coming from the other side.  I know, my mom laughs at me all the time. :-)