I am looking around the room in slow motion.

There is Nyla Rose, blond curls, big blue eyes and the sweetest girl.

Next to her is her Grandfather in a tiara dancing, her Mother in a boa, and her Grandmother holding a pair of sparkly shoes. All of them with the same raised eyebrow, big smile, you can do it face.

Nyla Rose doesn't want to.

Yes she has tried on her Mother's heels a hundred times at home. Yes she loves to play dress up.

Not today. Not for the camera.

Grandpa swings her in the air in a big circle making her laugh and tries to land her into the sparkly heels.

She does the splits on either side of them.

Her mom turns to me, "I swear she loves to wear them!"

I have to laugh. I have seen it a hundred times. So we don't get the picture we had in mind, but with a kid that cute does it matter? Nyla Rose 2yr-114