2,102,400.

Posted bycasey coombsPosted inToo lazy to label.

Two million one hundred and two thousand four hundred minutes.

That’s how many minutes the moosh will have been in this world as of 4:23 pm today.
the moosh.

I was watching her sleep today and wondered what memories she’s going to keep from her childhood. 

Will she remember catching snowflakes on her tongue?
the moosh survives on a steady diet of snowflakes.

Will she remember the hat she’s wearing? Will she remember this trip? Will she remember that she asked for snow? Will she remember the crochet hook she has carried around as her magic snow wand?
snow moosh.

Will she remember how much work I put into her birthday cakes? Because if I had a way of forcing her to remember something it would be her birthday cakes. These suckers are a lot of work. (Remember last year? Let me remind you…)
Barbie as the Island Princess Birthday Cake.

Will she remember that even though this year’s cake isn’t quite as fancy, it tasted better and she spent the entire day talking to her Sleeping Beauty cake? (Seriously, her and the cake? BFFs4EVER.)
4th birthday cake.
Will she remember dancing with her grandpa at a Christmas party to Frank Sinatra? Will she remember decorating a Christmas tree for the first time? Will she remember the hours spent on the floor with her grandparents playing Candy Land? Will my grandchildren ever play with one of toys she will receive as a gift today? Will she have fond memories of her birthdays and make a big deal out of them for her kids because I did?

Will she remember the animal pancakes we had for breakfast on the morning of her fourth birthday?
birthday pancakes.

Four years kid.

Happy Birthday.

I hope all your memories are happy ones.

63 thoughts on “2,102,400.”

  5. Cute baby Moosh! None of the curls, but all the lovely blue eyes.

    I wonder the same things about my kids. We moving soon, and our current place is the only home they’ve ever known, but they won’t remember a thing once they’re grown. I guess we have to remember these things for them. The wonder of their childhood lives in *our* hearts.

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  28. Casey, my grandma, who passed away a week ago, used to make me cakes like that. I can still picture them nearly 40 years later, without the photos in front of me. She’ll remember. 🙂

    Happy Birthday to the Moosh!

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  30. Happy Birthday Beautiful Girl!

    She will remember most of these things because I remember things like that. I remember my moms love of making our birthdays special. I remember the cakes and the presents. The people and the food. I loved my birthdays because of my mom.

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  31. Happy Birthday to the Moosh and happy Mother’s Day to the mom. (It’s really our children’s birthdays that made us mothers, not some arbitrary day in May, eh?)

    And last year’s cake exhausts me just looking at it. What a labor of love. 🙂

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  32. Happy birthday ! She looks the same as a baby as she does now, but without the wild, lovely hair !

    Casey, how in the world did you DECORATE those cakes ? My mum used to make me doll cakes, too when i was little, but holy fudge, those dresses are AMAZING. i’d love to make one for my daughter’s 3 year old birthday …

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  43. She’ll remember.

    Maybe not every single thing, but still. Think of how amazing it will be for her to come back here someday, to find this amazing “scrapbook” of sorts!

    [Wow. That even warmed MY ovaries a little. Huh.]

    Hope you have a great day with that DARLING GIRL!

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  48. Mike and I are literally paying for internet on our vacation right now so we can wish little moosh a very, VERY happy birthday. We know it’s a day late, but the sentiment is just as sincere.

    We freaking love that kid.

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  50. Your words melted my heart, what a great mom you are, how could she forget!! I guess that is why I better keep taking lots of pictures so Charlee is forced to remember everything!!

    Have a great day together!!

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