Our Rose has the prettiest baby features!  I kiss her cheeks every single day!  Her eyes dance around the room looking for mischief, and I get so tickled watching her every move.  This is a milestone, but it feels like yesterday that she was born.  When I talk about her to people that don’t know her, I refer to her as “Baby Rose.”  They ask me how old my baby is, and I say 2 1/2.  They look confused, but I just say, “She will always be my baby Rose!”  Sadly, it’s more like “toddler Rose,” but we will never take the baby out of Rose!

She was such a good girl and did such a great job!  She looked down, and from side to side, as she was instructed; I was so proud of her!  This is a picture of her looking up at the lady that was cutting her hair, when she told Rose to put her head to the side.  Sweet.baby.Rose.

 

When we ask Rose to smile, she does this silly crooked smile to be silly!  Here she is with her happy smile because of that yellow sticky thing about to be flung all over the place… literally!  I’ll never forget Rose at 2 1/2 because although she is a handful, she is the spring to our step, and the most adorable/affectionate baby I have ever met!

 

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) 

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