I don’t want to be here, because that means my baby is officially a toddler.
Hi. My name is Casey and I’m in denial.
A year ago today my seven year old was six and could do pretty much all the same things she does now and she also had a much different situation going on with all those giant teeth in her head. She was a little shorter, a first grader and that’s about where the differences end.
My baby on the other hand, a year ago today she was lying flat on her back flailing her legs like an overturned crab, drinking nothing but milk and taking these long glorious naps all swaddled up like a burrito. Today she’s up in her crib squawking like an angry bird about naps being for babies after a full lunch of tomatoes, carrots, chicken and cheese. She walks everywhere, draws on my walls, pulls my hair, pile drives the cats and hates baths.
Did I mention a year ago she didn’t have much of an opinion on life? She also wasn’t mobile. Oh my how mobile changes things.
This is where I begin my time here on Toddler Times, with an opinionated and loud 16 month old baby girl named Vivi. She is my world and not just because I have to keep an eye on her at all times or she will eat glitter. I waited six long years to get her here and now I simply can’t imagine a life without her, well, aside from the moments when she comes walking into my bedroom and I wonder what the hell happened to the baby I had last week.
SERIOUSLY.
I don’t remember it going this fast the first time around! Is it because I’m older? Wiser? Is it because of global warming?
Regardless, I’ll be here for the next little while, you know, until Vivi is filling out college applications next week and leaving me in a puddle of my own tears.
My name is Casey. I’m a mom, a wife, a friend, a sister, a cake lover, a photographer, a blogger and I really like to write. I’m 30. I live in Indiana. My husband is an attorney and blogs as well. All of our family lives in Utah and I miss them horribly but I enjoy my Midwestern life and the low housing costs it offers me.
I look forward to documenting the strange wonderful things that the coming months and years of toddlerhood hold for me, and hope you’ll come along so we can weep in misery and celebrate with cake when appropriate.
Casey Mullins is a writer, photographer and nice person living in Indianapolis with her two little girls, one husband and a one eyed cat. She writes regularly at her personal blog moosh in indy and can be found trolling local bakeries and napping whenever possible.
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I’m damn glad to be here, eager to earn your read, and ready to have some fun, so let’s party! (And by party I mean sit our kids in front of the TV and hang out braless.)
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Casey Mullins is a writer, photographer and nice person living in Indianapolis with her two little girls, one husband and a one eyed cat. She writes regularly at her personal blog moosh in indy and can be found trolling local bakeries and napping whenever possible.
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More Lori? Oh, I love it.
Can’t get enough of this girl. She is adorable.
Welcome to the derby, friend. Good luck.
Yay! Looking forward to reading!!
A link to a 25 photo slideshow. Thanks for letting me know up front which posts to skip. Geez… :/
<3 me some Lori!