Boy, am I ever glad I read your explanation after seeing this!
I have come to discover that most 2-year-olds don't usually think when they behave strangely
Ya, I don't think they actually develop brains until about 4. That's when they start to get ideas, like, oh, I don't know, say, taking off their clothes before playing in the dirt pile because he (er, I mean "they") doesn't want to get them dirty. 