My baby girl, Ava Rose is 3 years old now. Talk about Deja Vu! She looks so much like her Mom when she was this age it's not funny! She also has her very own personality with plenty of traits inherited from her Nana and Pop-Pop. More from her Nana though, waaaaay more.......

 She still has total control over my heart and rules supreme over my thoughts and affections. She loves to tease me when I go to see her and will run to her Nana, Mom, or Granpa and give them a big kiss while looking straight at me, with me howling in protest about her giving my sugar away. I always wind up getting some though.......

 She even knows how to play Pop-Pop for a present. The other day I was going to get some money from the ATM with my daughter Caitlin, and she announced she wanted to go "shopping"..... Really now, a three year old who already has developed the "shopping" habit? I'm doomed.......

 I couldn't go shopping as I had things at the house I needed to get done. She began to pout a little and when I got to the house I opened the back door to give her a kiss goodbye. She refused to give me a kiss, that is until I leaned down and told her that I would take her shopping later and buy her some toys, at which time she promptly offered up those little lips for a kiss...... which I gladly took my sugar and had to chuckle.  I am truly committed to spending the rest of my life spoiling this child as much as I possibly can. Her Mom may have something to say about that. But, it won't matter too much because I spoiled her as much as I could, she has no room to complain.