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Where I think it will let you down is if you are also wanting to shoot VIDEO (and with the grandbaby coming along in 30 days or so, I expect that you will want to shoot a fair bit of video).
These 'mirrored' DSLR cameras that utilize phase focus are awesome for still photos, but are really in their infancy for competing with 'mirrorless' cameras like the Panasonic GH-2 or GH-3 which use contrast focus for both Stills and Video. The Nikon 3100 is said to have a pretty noisy autofocus that you can hear on your video duing playback. It has also been mentioned in some reviews of the Nikon 3100 that the autofocus looses focus easily on objects that are in motion during video (like moving grandkids...those little guys just won't stay still
). I picked up a Panasonic GH-2 a little over a year ago, and have been extremely happy with both the Still and Video performance, so a mirrorless camera in the Micro-Four-Thirds format or similar might be something worth looking into if BOTH Stills and Video are equally important to you Tony. My 2 cents....