She's gorgeous

wow, a first...

long time lurker, first time poster..

i'm afraid

seriously, mini-Jon. What a cutie!

-D

Holy cow, top ten? Happy b-day, Leta!

Ah, the rebellion burns bright in her eyes. Does she ever mistake the camera for Chuck's nose?

Happy 1 and a quarter, Leta!

You _rock_, little Pebbles girl!

How does it feel to have the Internet as a cheering section for yo' little self?

My darling daughter just turned 14 months old...such a trying yet delightful time! I love your newsletters and have copied you in writing my own to my baby! Thanks for the inspiration, Dooce!

lovely letter. lovely eyes little pigtailed leta.

I must admit that the angle of this portrait is making me feel a bit seasick.* And I didn't even participate in last night's virtual Shiraz-fest.... ;)

*OBNote: this is not intended in any way to undercut the absolute cuteness of she who screams a lot all the time (or whatever the real phrase is). Cute, strong-willed and outspoken: like mother, like daughter?

I love the Pebbles hair-do. I still do my hair like that when I'm feeling spunky.

So, HB Dooce, when can I buy one of those hair barrette thingamajigs? I'm your next customer.

That is a beautiful picture to go with the beautiful entry. Wow.

Leta, try not to drive Mama too crazy.

What a beautiful girl....

Thanks, Heather, for your fantastic monthly updates. I'm dealing with lots of snot with my 6-month-old, so I commiserate (no tantrums yet, however). Hey, when do we get to see a photo of Leta having a tantrum?

'Tis a daughter's right, no, _duty_ to drive her mother crazy. Just ask the Avon World Sales Leader.

Or my mom.

That is an adorable picture! She is sooo cute!

FIRST!

Heather, you need to frame that one. It has a very "classic" quality about it. I would love to see how you display your photos in your home. I'm comin' over....
arrghhh....I'll be under your bed, looking for detritus.

You know what? After my Betty Broderick-esque stories the other day, maybe I should keep even jokes about stalking out of my comments.

Heather, nice shot. Tryin' to keep it about you.

Lol.. Im disapointed not to find Muffy's blog. Not that she makes me laugh, that I like very much.
excuse me for my bad english.. you know english is my second language (but it sounds like if it was my 3rd or 4th)

Awwwwww, how cute.

Is it 5 yet?

Just kidding with ya' Naralius. You have fine English. What is your first language?

Leta Samuri

Leta really looks like Heather in this photo. She has such a thoughtful look on her face, too. Like she is planning her next attack!

It is useless in Houston, too. If you don't know Spanish, you are lost half the time here in the city. Luckily my boyfriend is my personal translater. And my boyfriend's almost 4 year old son. He is fluent in both English and Spanish. He is always acting as my little translater.

Love those CHEEKS!

seriously, that kid gets cuter every day.

What a great picture. I just finished reading through your archives (cause there is no use just starting from now...) and must say you are talented both with your writing and your camera!!

Thanks Mike, but I'm pretty sure Jessica isn't even up yet, and I've got to walk the dog.

Maybe later?

Awww...too cute. Leta's really getting BIG.
Have a wonderful week, House of Blurbodoocery!

Thanks darlin' narlin'! I needed something new and witty for my verbal repetoire. Now I have a cornucopia of pithy epitaphs at my metaphorical fingertips.

Leta, happy fifteenth month!

Whoa! Under 100? This is like, amazing.

Love your site, Heather!

Awwww!

Angelina Jolie watch out.

In the big beautiful lips sense, not in the I will steal your husband sense.

Yay for 15 months. Her hair certainly is getting longer!

Erhot einen veinen schvontz. I don't know if that is the right spelling but that is the only German I know.

Actually, a Mormon friend of mine taught me how to say that little bit of German. I think it roughly means "He has a big schvontz." I am sure you can figure out what a schvontz is.

Muff,
"I am a big green gas station" ???

My favorite German phrase is "Tapetenwechsel" -- it means "change of scenery," but it literally translates to "change of carpet."

Sometimes I just scatter it into my everyday conversations.

Oh, the tantrums. I seriously thought my daughter needed some sort of tantrum medication when she was 15 months old. And 20 months, and 24 months, and ohmygod when she was 3 I thought *I* was going to need SOMETHING to get through the tantrums.

Now, at 5, she's COMPLETELY enjoyable. Charming, even! I actually want to spend time with her!

Hang in there, Ms. Heather. This too shall (someday) pass.

CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE! CUTE!

I've said it before, as the rest of you have too - LETA IS SO DAMN CUTE!

So, how many of you wasted time in your lives, that you'll never get back, switching back and forth between fox news, msnbc, cnbc, etc. to watch this runaway bride circus?
4 hours. I'm never getting it back.
On the other hand, how many hours wasted on dooce?
More than i can count, and they were all priceless.
It's people like her that showcase my reasons for being a sheep in the dooce flock.

Happy 15 month birthday, Leta! She is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing her with us

Heather, you're such an awesome Mom and Leta is absolutely adorable!

p.s: TOP 100!

Ah, Leta, soon you will be cruising along the furniture and your mother won't know what hit her! Happy 15 month prety girl.

I can see her future in her eyes. beautiful!

Muffy, I want a Ranchwagon dog. Really bad. Where are all my girls this morning? BFE? Jessica Rabbit? Torrie, you've been too quiet today. ;-)

Katie, pretty close, but in German "w"s are pronounced like "v", so change your "v"s to "w"s and you got it!

Also, it's "Er hat".

I want to eat her little cheeks.

Happy 15 months, Heather. You're doing great.

Heather, you officially have the cutest baby girl in the world. Happy 15 months!

could that child look more like her father?

i love the picture but i love the words more. Leta is going to have a wonderful journal to read when she grows up!

she gets more adorable with ever passing day. and your stories about her get even funnier!

Heather, thanks again for such a great newsletter! I imagine that one day Leta will sit down to read all of these letters you have written her and just know how loved she is.

So damn cute.

Why Dooce Why? I want no children! But the photos are sooo cute.

i need a kitten.

Gooooooooder...Take my advice, get a kitten. Children are wonderful and cute, but damnit, they grow up and generally become useless for a good number of years before moving away.

Completely edible.

Jess, if you _are_ wearin' the pink onesie, you must post pix to go with your new site design.

Is it considered a "onesie" if I'm wearin' nothing but a sock?

And before anyone asks where "sir" is wearin' the sock, it's on my right foot.

Let's not be silly about it here...

Lets NOT be silly Here....

Did you read that before you hit post Bucky, or were you too busy adjusting your sock?

Does anyone seriously think I _ever_ read before I hit post? If I did that, you'd never hear from me. Which, to some, would be a blessing.

And my sock is just fine, thank you. Did I mention the sock garter?

Torrie, Home Detention Lady always tips me off, but I don't know from whence she gets the themes, or if they're posted anywhere.

I sure hope it's One-Sock Week.

Doesnt matter what it is, im backed up with boobie name pic requests for like a week.

Well then Jess, perhaps you should get busy with the camera.

Well yes, but Im only going to do one a day because if I keep writing on myself and rubbing it off, I will be tender! Them's my hoots, gotta be nice to the hoots.

Yes Bucky, I said rubbing it off. Ready? GO!

nilbo is not here either... this is quite...

Heather, you totally got it. It's not about tomoroow it's about right now. Tomorrow she will be going to her prom in a hoochiefied dress with some hot guy while you fret if they are going to hump or not.

Kristine: I did, and commented on *your* blog!

I am witnessing a growing resemblance to you in recent pictures of Leta. Her face is morphing into a doocelike shape and maybe the placement/shape of her eyes? Lips? Chin? Eyebrows?

Geez - I go to the station
and i find...
Susie, I just reviewed the AM comments from the last pic and noticed you were tryin' to bogart the Shiraz Greenie saved for me.

Don't mess with chicks who wear horned helmets - theres a lot of wine-drinking in opera-land - its pretty much a food group there.

ok, back to the pretty music to go with the artsy pic of Leta.

Perhaps Kate McQ should contact Heather to be her financial advisor.

Sigh.

I love black & white photos. They give such a different, sort of nostalgic, feel to pix.

Gorgeous pic.

Leta will be take this same self portrait at 15 years...except with lots of rebellious black eyeliner on.

I agree wholeheartedly with BFE. I am sure that Kate McQ would lighten up if she were to simply join Heather's Harem for one day. There's nothing more soul-cleansing than lifting Heather into her chariot and spoonfeeding her Metamucil and pop-tarts. These acts of charity also more than pay for her lowly Doocelings to go crazy in the comments section.

I love the things your sister says. Classic- "Get off the bed with the cheeto hands!" Crack me up!

More picks of Leta with Chuck! Pweeeeeaze!!!

I want one of these - there is a google ad on Heather's site for this thing. Too bad they aren't SELLING this thing yet!

http://www.cookiedunker.com/

Great newsletter, even better pictures today! I find it odd that there are no pictures of me when I was little, certainly not a newsletter which chronicles my young life. Leta is seriously going to treasure this more than any material possession in the world. She is lucky to have such wonderful people all around her, waiting on her next move. Keep up the amazing, arduous task of being parents, she will remember a lot more than you think, especially if it's good times.

Bucky, you do not SeaMonkeys?

How the hell do I explain
I've got seamonkeys on the brain
In my hair and on my chin
He never holds those 'monkeys in.

That picture is so dark I had to clean my monitor to find the cutie pie hiding behind all the dust.

I SPD should be stuff your face day.

OMG 169 comments! You have the makings for a cult here. I suggest you grasp the power and make us drink kool aid ;)
I prefer fruit punch, or that magic blue kind.

It really was a nice 15mo. letter though. Happy 15th MonthBirthDayCelebrationThingy Leta!

Oh hey Bucky?

Monkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkeymonkey

Pokey, I did not mean to imply that you were a has-been. I only said that you were a little orange plastic horse. I thought I had gotten rid of you when I taped that firecracker to you and threw you out the window. Is that really you Pokey?

Write ME, Jess. No one ever writes my name on their parts.
I'll write your name on THIS.

Bucky,
if you adjust your sock more than three times, you're playing with yourself.

Jess, for god's sake, how many jokes can burst into my head at once before my brain explodes?

But yes, rubbing it off too many times a day can cause tenderness, chafing, and the inability to walk normally.

I think Jessica has some nice hoots. But I still want you to write "Katie Rocks my World" on your hoots. That would make my day.

Bucky, is that a trick question? Or do you really want an answer to it?

Because I might be able to come up with something if I think about it real long and real hard....

"real long and real hard…."

Like THIS, JessicaRabbit?

I have a list of names that need to be placed on my boobs, I also have a shopping list to get washable markers and not the permanent ones that make me high to sniff my own boobs.

Katie, rock your world huh? well then, Ill see what I can do, but im just one girl with big boobs...:)

Susie must be hanging out with my cat, Linus.

I must away! The natives will be home soon and I must be in full force to inform them of their impending groundings of which they are currently blissfully unaware... Must to their dismay they will find that upon inspection of the video game haven last night I discovered a still running and open program on a computer, an uncovered modem they left open to the evil cat forces, and empty soda bottles and candy wrappers tucked under many objects.

Time to prepare for the soon to be administed Doom Of The Mommy.

Bye, Jess. Go administer your Mom Doom. And if you should happen to make your boys cry like little schoolgirls, I hope you'll be good enough to post pictures.

Im sure I can get some pics of the stink eye they will be shooting me when they find out the get no games for 3 days, as this is a second offense, and they have to clean up all the sticks in the front yard.

Im going to be so very popular tonight.

DOOM OF THE MOMMY, out! Have fun kids!

Oh, and I cant forget!

Much pimpin of Kristine, who is the shit. Who redid my site, and the Bobblheadhillbilly's site last night and who is a seriously talented, way hot girl.

Kristine!!! You rock!

Susie, you know what? I've decided that you can keep my sister AND the suitcase.

You know, for your honeymoon. ;)

Susie - where's my glass of wine?

The best thing about pictures of babies and kids, but especially babies...is looking at all the expressions on their faces.

Although, Leta is hard to read sometimes.

I love when she looks at the camera as if to say "This is all SO beneathe me...."

lol

I hate to tell you dooce but she looks like your hubby! She is a cutie!! 40 weeks of carrying around a little peapod and she looks nothing like you. I speak from personal experience myself.

Happy 15 months Leta!!

I love this shaggy indie rock thing she has going. I've been alive for 21 years and still can't get the "hip" thing down, and she nails it at 15 months. Go Leta!

Okay- I never comment, but after today's post I just can't resist. You have the cutest child I have ever seen. Seriously....and I'm not even a big fan of the kiddies.

:)

Yes, you see it folks, it's the Dooce Poetry Slam -- Seamonkey Theme.

Hey, maybe seamonkeys should be SPD theme for the week? And that could go right along with Strizz' "stuff your face" theme.

I would love to see that lawsuit, You honor, all these crazy blog people were taking self portraits of an imagine that is clearly copyright protected to the Got Milk corp.

Ahh no you honor, it was SeaMonkeys, sir, just a little spunk party on the chin if you will...

Maybe you guys could help me out with this...excuse me...THIS. Is it true that it is not the size of your little orange plastic horse that really matters, but it is more in how you use it? I am just curious. Bucky...honestly, it was just a little orange plastic horse that I taped a firecracker to...not THIS Pokey.

I personally hate those Got Milk ads. It is weird to see Dr. Phil or Ellen Degeneres with their fake grins and white creamy upper lips. And they say that stuff is not even milk. It is some curious white mixture of glue and some secret ingredient - maybe sea monkeys?

KBBAW - oh yeah its "snasty"- I used to do prop/wardrobe styling for TV commercials. You don't want to know what they have to make stuff out of so that it won't melt under the lights.

I couldn't agree more about the resemblance to Heather, but I disagree that the first pic is the one. I think the third one at the door reminds me more of Heather. lil' minxy.

Bucky, I keep telling you, if you continue to shame me about that incident, you're going to set my potty training waaaaaaay back. It won't be pretty.

Coskel, I drank that with my cereal this morning!

searches.

whatever

On Saturday my daughter peed on my foot...just another adventure in potty training.

Torrie: Site meter is addictive..be ware.

I hope Heather is watching Oprah today. Apparently the entire show is dedicated to poop!

Very cute, but you already knew that :)

Beautiful letter to your child. They grow up very quickly, trust me. Everyone always told me that, but I never believed it. Especially when my oldest wouldn't stop screaming, and this was long past the screaming stage,too. Later you'll wish this stage had been longer.
Also, my middle child walked at around this age. Everyone has their own schedule.
Beautiful child, beautiful mom.

I have to pay $6.95 to be able to have the option to see the searches in Site Meter? I just put it on my site, and when I went to check out my account, it says you have to pay to see that shit.

And it is $6.95 a month!

Lovely black and white picture of Leta.

Thank you for allowing us to peek in on Leta's progress into toddlerhood. She's quite adorable!

........did I mention the burning sensation as the dye was injected rather quickly into your vein?

she's looking at meeeeee! ok. maybe not. but you can tell the monkeys in her head are planning 'something'. beautiful Leta.

Kids provoke intense love and at times intense frunstration. Enjoy the ride.

just checkin' in...to behold one more time, the total cuteness that is Leta

I don't pay the 6.95 per month, it gives me all the information I need...like what search words were used when they found me, and where people are coming from [if from other sites] I could tell that someone from Dooce logged onto my page...all free.

Cutie!

Torrie, they always find my site through "fat housewife porn" searches. they never seem to stay long, wonder why?

The two searches that find me most, Cinderella snapping pussy, which I have no idea what that means, and voice immodulation.

Oh, my God. Could she be any more beautiful. Your post yesterday about her meltdowns was precious. Leta RULES !!

Hi Dooce, don't post very often, but read almost every day.

Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your newsletters.

It's very cool that there's a whole community out here in blogosphere that sincerely cares about your child's development.

Leta: It's like she's an extended neice or something.

Looks like she'll be walking soon!
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It's afternoon here! Hi Coskel, hope you're having a good day. :)

Another day, another dooce
Good morning! Two weeks and counting!

Its good morning to all of you......and good night to me.

I like the whfropera site! :-)

Good morning all.

Muffy - are ya nervous yet? I still have the time and site link written down so hopefully we'll be able to watch the wedding!

Just a few more days until the weekend!

Night all.

Happy 15 Months to the child who is obsessed with her kitchen floor! ;) You are a cutie Leta!

Monkeys? I worry about the monkeys that might get *on my back!*

向你和你的宝贝致以春天的问候！
祝宝贝快乐成长！

I agree with siacgem (?)

Lovely photo - she has beautiful eyes!

Leta is gorgeous! I'm a frequent reader, but first-time poster! I really enjoy your blog. Keep up the good work. Take care of you and yours, Nicnu xx

I wasn't born during the Agnes flood in '72, but the house we lived in in Kingston obviously made it through that flood. When my dad was renovating during the eighties, he found mud and debris actually stuck between the walls.

As a sidenote, I was just being ironic when I said we were trailer trash. I have never lived in a trailer. Although I would fancy me a double wide out in Noxen if I had the chance.

Come on, Muffy. Everyone knows that us girls from NEPA are trailer trash skanks. Whoever called you white trash needs to get it right!

Katie,the ONLY time I lived in a trailer, was after the 72 flood. It was in our driveway next to our house. That way our family (myself, mom and dad, brothers and sister) could stay together while my father fixed the damage from having 8 feet of river water run through it. He and my mom cleaned mud out for six months. While both were holding down jobs.
Yea, I'm just welfare grabbin' white trash.

good morning everyone... Nicole, I hope Muffy has all her teeth and his husband to be is not related to her.

Striz, I'm workin' on the teeth thing. Wouldn't wanna be mistaken for non-trash, now, would I?

'Scuse me while I expel this wad o' chaw...

*PTOO*

Hey Striz, I just sent you my info. I can't wait to do the exchange!

Muffy - sounds like you're all set. :-)

The run-away bride sounds (from the newsbites from yesterday) like she has some problems - perhaps from depression or something similar. I hope she gets the help she needs. Also, did you all hear anything about her being engaged before and getting out of the engagement? I heard the story on our local news, but haven't heard it on the national.

I still can't believe someone called me "white trash" on a previous days comments. How does getting married in Vegas make one white trash?
And what is it with the term "White trash"? Is that even politically correct? Frankly, I'm offended. I'm calling the ACLU.

Giggles: My sister's husband is a pharmacist for Osco, so she pays only 12% over cost on everything. 12 dollar foundation? 3 for me! I'm totally hitting the malls when I get out there.
OH! My love is picking up our engraved wedding bands TODAY! I can't believe it!
Anyone know any weird superstitions about trying them on before the big day?
Oh, and I also picked up my bus ticket to Albuquerque yesterday, ya know, just in case...

Hey Blog Exchangers, click my namde if you want to get in this month.

We did meet online through my aol personal ad. Does that qualify as w.t.'ish?
Come on, guys, i wanna have a white trash weddin' with matching Bride and Groom teddy bears on the head table at Denny's