the terrible twos have started!

we had a major power struggle last night - itwas hard on all of us
what do you do when your toddler who's recovering from a fever and still has a runny nose insists that she wants to take off all her clothes and sleep with a towel on her? esp when we know it's a game where she tries to wriggle out of the towel and all this at 11.30 pm? we said no and ignored her angry cries. she cried for an hour! it changed from "take off clothes" to go to hall" to "come with me" and finally to "carry me" - by then she looked so forlon - she must have thought her best friends have turned on her for good - the indulgent and loving parents were ignoring her!
very hard - but really, the last thing we could do was give in to her after an hour of crying -the message she'd get is, 1 hour is their threshold, just keep crying for an hour and she will get what she wants no matter how unreasonable or unhealthy a desire it is!
when I carried her, I told her how both her dad and me loved her very much, and that just as she's learning to be a toddler we too are learning to be parents! sigh. hope these don't go on for too long!