Where did I stash the manual for this toddler?

Life with Boo is amazingly entertaining. She truly lights up our world everyday. The words and attempted sentences that are starting to fly out of her mouth are just so ridiculously cute they make us weak at the knees. But then... You turn the page and then you see the side that ain't so cute ;) I know.. I know, I totally get that she is just discovering the world, finding limits, pushing boundaries but sheesh, sometimes it can be so darn hard! Hence the title.... We really could use a manual about now! So... I should stop fluffing and get to my point!

The problem: Boo goes to bed between 7 - 7.30pm. First she stalls.... "Need wee's mumma". We go to the potty... nothing. Night nappy goes back on and we try again. "Bot mumma...". She wants another bottle, she has a bottle of milk while she watches In the night garden at 6.30pm. We then go through the "no you have already had bot its time for sleep". We now enter the screaming tantrum phase for a while, screaming like someone is murdering her, crying & so on. Then we move on to singing songs, then talking to our teddies woofy & bubba...I think your getting the drift. Eventually, tonight's time was 10.30pm, you hear silence and Boo has decided that it's time to go to sleep.

Boo has never had a problem with going to bed, sleep, going to sleep, being left alone, nothing... never. I would even go as far as saying that she loved sleep and her cot. This is a new behavior that is foreign to us. She has always had a regular pre bed routine so this whole going to bed thing at a certain time is no surprise to her. We have tried moving day nap times around... removing her "friends" from the cot to minimize stimuli... making sure the routine is the same. Nothing.has.worked!

So.... Is this a stage? Do all toddlers go through it? Is she just "testing the boundaries?", I don't know.

If there are any toddler whispers out there, please step forward with your words of wisdom....pleaseeeee :)