The tot will celebrate her third birthday next month.
Don't blink! Bindi Irwin's 2-year-old daughter, Grace Warrior Irwin Powell, has grown up in a flash, as evidenced by a pair of sweet before and after pics.
"I love watching our beautiful girl grow up at #AustraliaZoo," Bindi captioned a photo carousel on Instagram, sharing a pair of side-by-side pictures of Grace seated inside the jaws of an inanimate crocodile -- taken just over two years apart. In the first snap, taken in November 2021, Grace is about eight months old and all smiles in a pink jumpsuit and matching bow, reaching up to wrap her fingers around one of the croc's teeth. In the next, captured last month, Grace cheeses for the camera as her legs hang down out of the animal's mouth.
Grace, who Bindi shares with husband Chandler Powell, will celebrate her third birthday on March 25.
"Grace is so tall and terrific! I love her so much.❤️," commented Bindi's mom, proud grandma Terri Irwin.
"She reminds me of dad with her personality type," Bindi, daughter of the late Steve Irwin, recently told ET. "She is just awing with everything. Her whole soul being is full of passion and enthusiasm and it's very cute because she's fiery and fabulous and I love that."
The Irwin family works and resides at the Australia Zoo, which gives Grace the opportunity to get to know her late grandfather. Steve died on Sept. 4, 2006 from a stingray injury while filming an underwater documentary in the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44.
"We walk around every day and there's a lot of Steve here, he's incorporated into the signs and the videos and everything happening," Terri shared with ET. "And [Grace] calls him Grandpa Crocodile, so she spots Grandpa Crocodile and she gets so excited."
Bindi added, "It's also really sweet because every night we have this bedtime routine and we have this picture of dad feeding a crocodile. One night we were going to bed to do our affirmations and she says, 'Goodnight Grandpa Crocodile.' So now every night before she goes to bed, we start our bedtime routine with saying goodnight to Grandpa Crocodile."
The doting mom continued, "But I love that he's still so much a part of her life, because that was so important to me that she would grow up knowing him, because it's hard not having him around. I know he would have adored her. It's really special now, he's part of her everyday life."
Grace even has the iconic Crocodile Hunter phrases down.
"If you ask her now what Grandpa Crocodile says, she either says, 'Crikey! Danger, danger, danger!' or, 'You little beauty.' She is so funny when she does the full dad enthusiasm."
The Irwin family is keeping Steve's legacy alive through the Crocodile Hunter Lodge, where visitors have the chance to experience the animals while having a luxury vacation experience.
See what they had to say about it in the video below.
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