She could always become a serial killer or a Republican later on in life, but for now.....

[DFW]

My two year old granddaughter is just interested in being someone VERY special:
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[handmade34]

1. no

with a grandpa like you... she will change the world for the better!!

[DFW]

4. She already notices everything and forgets nothing.

A future Hillary Clinton or a future Angela Merkel. She will have the option of either one.

[handmade34]

5. well...

if she were mine, I would push the Angela Merkel persona a real scientist

[DFW]

6. Like both my daughters, German will be her native language

But we expect her to be close to bilingual if not fully so. My daughters spent many years of school in the USA, and so lost their German accents completely when they speak English. With this one, it all depends on whether or not she gets as much exposure to the language. The process of getting a U.S. nationality for a newborn in Germany is much more cumbersome now than when I got it for my daughters. They were born in the 1980s. I called down to the American Embassy in Bonn (pre-unification days), asked what I needed to bring, and two hours after I walked in, I walked out with their US birth certificates, passports, and social security numbers. These days, online appointments are needed plus mounds of paperwork. But my daughter is a lawyer, herself, so she can deal with paperwork, and is at least as thorough as the embassy case worker. It took almost a year, but the little one now has her U.S. passport. If they let Ted Cruz run for president, they will have to let our granddaughter do it too, if she so wishes. Of course, if we keep letting people like Cheney and Trump run the place, she might decide to stay in Germany.

Our daughter in Frankfurt had originally planned to remain in the USA, going back and forth between being a Kama'aina and an east coast lawyer. She wanted to settle in Boston, NYC or Washington. But the Cheneybush recession nixed those plans, and when she graduated from Law School in New York, she was faced with either waiting on tables in the USA or starting with the Frankfurt arm of a British law firm at €85,000 plus bonus. She didn't have to weigh the options for very long. That was 10 years ago. She was soon headhunted by the Frankfurt arm of a big NYC law firm, became their youngest partner ever, and now makes three times what I do.

If the little one is anything like her mama, look out, world!

[Lochloosa]

2. They are Perfect at that age.

[DFW]

3. And then the "terrible twos" set in.

Everyone knows what's coming.

[brer cat]

7. What a sweeheart!

She must be a bundle of joy for you.

[DFW]

8. She is, but quite a handful, too.

If she ends up as attractive as her mom and her aunt, she will chew up boyfriends and spit them out for amusement until she finally meets her intellectual match. Our daughter finally did (i.e. this one's father), but even he knows he has met HIS match as well. It works because he is smart enough to realize it. The little one is fortunate to have such parents. Her father is a young senior partner in the same law firm where our daughter works, but invokes his seniority to stay at home for the day with the little one if my daughter is called to fly to Vienna, Zürich or London for the day for work. She is in good hands.