brain is too ambitious for body

I have a theory that the first part of a new age is difficult then the child sort of eases into that age.  Frankly, we've had it very easy, we never really had any major behavioral problems to deal with.  For the most part, this girl is cake.  But as we are approaching 5, I think the new crop of problems are sprouting up.  In three days, we've had to deal with three problems.  Day 1: Sophie confessing to having drawn on her closet with what appears to have been a red Sharpie (she's hidden or put away the evidence and can't remember).  Dang, just a few days ago we were feeling smug about how OUR daughter doesn't write on the walls.  Day 2: loud crashing sound followed by crying child who sounds more scared than hurt.  Turns out she was trying to grab a bandaid in the medicine cabinet by putting all her weight on the towel rack which pulled it off the wall.  Day 3: signs of somebody having eaten candy canes on the sofa.  Whereas she fessed up to the other incidents  pretty quickly,  that took a bit of work to get her to admit to knowing anything about that.  She tried to suggest that maybe one of us had done it.  There's also a mysteriously broken lid that she says she knows nothing about.  Mike and I both believed her.  However, I have to reconsider in light of these other incidents.. Hopefully, she's just getting the crazies out in one week rather than over several months.  And yet, even her crazies aren't even that bad.