Reading to my girls

Today has been a very fun day!  My girls love that I read to them.  They pick 4 books for the bookcase and we sit on the floor.  One girl on my left and one on my right.  They point at pictures in the book and I proceed to tell them what the pictures are. 
The girls are very close to learning to say the words themselves.  They babble, but thats part of the learning experience!

I would have to say the hardest part, is when its nap time and my girls do not want to listen.  I have hit the terrible two tantrums already and we are only sixteen months old.  There is kicking, hitting, and crying on the ground.  I just wish sometimes that I had their father to help when it gets to times like these.  I hate to say no, but how will they learn that its not ok to kick, and hit?