We love you, sweet baby Rose!  You are precious in every single way!  Daddy and I talk about you ALL the time and can’t wait to tell each other Rose stories as they happen.  When you get into trouble, you hunch your little back, roll your shoulders to the floor with your head just hanging down in shame.  You huff and puff and say, “I so sorry!”  Then you look up and grin at us… and we all can’t help but giggle at your cuteness. 

You love playing monster!  That is by far your favorite game!  You say, “Roar!” and hold up your hands like a monster and try to scare us, and we pretend like we are scared.  You laugh and laugh!  And then you say, “Nake” (snake) and point at the floor, and we all scream and jump like there is a snake on the ground.  You literally squeal with delight that we are playing along.  And then we pretend to scare you and you shiver and say, “I cared, I cared!” (I scared, I scared)  It’s a really fun game, and you made it up! 

You LOVE water and drinks in general!  You call anything in a cup, your “cups.”  You ask for a “cups” all the time.  Tonight you said, “More sips in my cups!” but it is usually just, “I want my cups!”  You’ve gotten in the habit of calling me “Na-ne!”  You scream it from another room when you want me.  Noelle used to do that when she was a toddler.  It’s really strange, but really cute!  We have a picture of you as a baby on your tummy in our breakfast room.  Since you are on your tummy, you think you fell down in the picture, so you always look up at it and say, “Uh oh!  Rose fall down!” and you point up to your picture.  I try to tell you that you were a baby just laying on your tummy, but you insist that you fell down, so I play along and say, “Uh oh!  Sorry for your ouchie, Rose!” and you pout and put out your bottom lip and say, “Kiss, Na-ne, kiss!” 

I could tell Rose stories all day long… there are new ones every day!  You are the life of the party; we are CRAZY about you, sweet baby Rose!  You’re so much fun to live life with, and we are tickled pink you are our third awesome girl!  Way to grow, lol!

Love, Mommy and Daddy

                                         

                                                          Sweet Baby Rose, 2 years, 4 months old