She looks like me! Kind of.
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Heather talks about public tantrums (from kids) on today's Momversation.
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1. brittney said:
I wonder if Miss Leta will be a redhead. Any redheads in your families?
2. Fujiko said:
Awww, that is so sweet! She's growing up so fast!
And yes, I agree. She does kind of look like you.
3. C said:
I'm first, or maybe second. I just had to do it. Such a cutie!
4. Brooke said:
I thought she looked a lot like you in those 8-month newsletter pictures, Heather. She's adorable.
5. Colleen said:
those expressive eyebrows... have we seen those before?
6. beachgal said:
What a sweetie...love the reddish hair. She does look a little more like you than before, but just like my little guy, there's no denying who his father is. But have faith, people are telling me now that he's starting to look like me a bit.
7. Emily said:
From pictures I have seen - she looks like you more and more lately.
She's damn cute, that's for sure.
8. di said:
with 50% of your DNA, perhaps she'll end up an internet rockstar like her mother. of course, jon has rockstardom in his blood, too, so leta is bound to be a bitchin' geek when she grows up! what a cutie!
9. Angie said:
They are definately your eyebrows - they're saying so much!!
10. Daniel said:
I want to eat her up! So darn delicious. I love baby hands.
Daniel
humanwrites.blogspot.com
11. Siobhan said:
:D that has to be the cutest little smile I've ever seen!
12. pnuw said:
well you *said* you wanted your children to have Jon's eyes; sure looks that way to me. what a cutie!
13. Gaspar said:
My son has been my photocopy until 14, then started to take some from my wife's side. Be patient!
Leta looks cute anyway. Complimenti alla mamma.
14. veronicalynne said:
I notice she's lying down. How is she doing with the therapy on her legs? Is it still painful or is she trying to stand yet? She is adorable. I hope she keeps the red.
15. GMM said:
She looks happy- and a little mischievous. Look at all that hair!
16. Laurie said:
She's such a squishy, punkin head, roly poly, lover doll!
I can only hope one day I make kids that cute!
17. sab said:
she is so adorable!
18. Dre said:
Such a ham!
19. moose said:
My daughter looked like neither of us when she was born. She was dark, black hair, we are both light (red and blonde). They made jokes about it in the delivery room. Then she lightened, and lightened and lightened. At one point, her hair looked reddish like Leta's, but it kept getting lighter til it was blonde. Now it's getting darker again, brown.
Likewise, she changes through phases of looking like me, then like her dad, then like me, then like her dad. It's weird. It's like watching slo-mo claymation morphing.
Have fun watching your claymation starlet!
20. Jaia said:
She looks like she's smarter than all my siblings put together.
Oh yeah, and "bitchin' geek" is the coolest phrase I've heard in a long time.
21. Krystal said:
you have one of the most adorable kids Ive ever seen. she looks so happy =] She is starting to look like you more now
22. kEma said:
What a beauty! There is no doubt who her MOMMY is ;)
and i really wanna kiss those cheeks
23. thesoulofhope said:
What a cutie!!
24. sarcastic journalist said:
Just know that nobody can ever accuse you of um "loving" the milkman.
25. Gretchen C. said:
It's interesting how she looks exactly like Jon in some photos, and at other times she so closely resembles you. I agree, you may have a redhead on your hands. Her hair is about the color of my Matthew's. Sort of light brown verging on strawberry blonde.
26. Gia said:
Look at all her hair! It is really coming in.
"Hi Leta!" (I'm waving at her)
Cutie.
27. The Mighty Jimbo said:
what sucks about all this is that i am seeing your child grow up more than i am seeing my own nieces and nephew. i'd move closer to them but they live in dallas, and they string up liberal vegetarian californians there.
28. Aubrey's mom said:
Oh, the hair! So much hair! My baby girl is one month younger than Leta and still so bald (but beautiful, of course!) I want to clip a bow in Leta's hair!!!
29. sally said:
What makes Leta look like you is really her expression--I am a clone of my dad, but I have my mom's "look," not her looks.
30. Michelle said:
Look at the photo of you on your about page. Put it next to this one of Leta. You two look alike no doubt about it. And you both have Leta's hands in your mouth....Yummmy!
31. Carrie said:
While she does mostly look like Jon, her expressive mannerisms are totally like you! Don't worry; I’m sure she'll look more and more like you as she grows up.
32. Stacey said:
I'm still waiting for my kid to resemble me. It's happening verrrrrrrrrrry slowly. ;)
She's too cute.
33. Jessica said:
Most babies look like their dad at first. Nature's way of letting the father know that an infant is "theirs", and not some other man's.
Once that is established, the kids start to resemble whomever they feel like. ;-)
34. Jennifer said:
She is starting to look more like you, even though she still looks exactly like Jon, but lately I've been thinking that Gwen Stefani is starting to look like you, too.
35. Lisa said:
Bah! on your "no liquor" on Federal holidays! Here in Arkansas, we can't buy booze on Sunday. Any Sunday.
Nor on Election Day, which is really when you need it most, don't you think?
I want to slobber all over Leta's cheeks, btw. She's a cutie pie.
36. coolbeans said:
She looks good enough to eat!
If you need me, I'll be over here drooling on myself.
37. Amnesia said:
OK Heather - time to have another one - this one is as cute as she gets.
38. Lindsey said:
Oh god, too frickin' cute!
I love the 'do :)
39. Jeff said:
I am new to browsing your blog but I must say, from what I have seen, she is quite the adorable kid! My wife and I have a one year old daughter(kaia) with a son due in February. After that, the factory is closed, in fact, we are going to have layoffs in the reproductive area reminiscent of those during GW's presidency.
Anywho, it stinks that you couldn't buy alcohol yesterday. Maybe your state stores should 'discover' how to be open for those requiring intoxicating sustinance. I know that here in NH, the beer and wine is readily sold in the supermarket, but we do have state controlled liquor stores as well ( for the good stuff ).
40. Eddeaux said:
I just want to squeeze her! that is what makes kids so great, they just cling to you- and they are soft and cuddly...
41. Andreah said:
Must. Squish. The. Baby.
42. Chanelbaby said:
Wait, Dooce, isn't serving liquor in restaurants illegal in Salt Lake City? So there ARE liquor stores though? Well THAT'S good news. Here's me thinking you had to drive a long way and STOCK UP.
43. HazelEyedPisces said:
Look at that hair. A perfect coloring combo of yours and her dad. Simply gooooorgeous, dahling!
44. red said:
BRING ON THE REDNESS. :) she is adorable, and although she's still jon's twin -- she is starting to favor you a bit.
45. Shauna said:
Yeah the narative of mundane daily events of SAHM...my hubby tries not to cringe..too much :)
46. BarefootGoddess said:
My daughter looked just like my husband when she was born. So much so that to compare baby pictures, sometimes the only way to know who you are looking at is to look at the back. She is almost 8 now, and looks exactly like me, aside from his eyes.
47. kate said:
i was a nanny and had the same SAHM narrative you gave jon, except i would rattle off to my boyfriend over the phone as soon as i got off work...and he still ended up marrying me!
(i don't think he realizes how much worse it will be when i'm really a SAHM and it's our kids, though...)
48. Rengirl said:
Damn. This picture is so cute I want to die right here on the spot in this perfect moment!
49. Amanda said:
Just when we thought she couldn't POSSIBLY get any cuter...
50. p said:
I know what it's like to want your child to look like you - my son is a carbon copy of his dad - but I have to be honest. leta looks EXACTLY LIKE HER FATHER. you can say "oh, the eyebrows" or "the left half of her upper cheek" and think that part is all you - but alas, it's not. however, you have the bodily trauma to prove it to yourself. think if she looked just like you and nothing like jon, though. there's the bright side.
51. p said:
sigh... MEANING - if she looked only like you and not like her dad, you have to contend with idiots saying "are you sure it's his? guffaw."
52. DeAnn said:
Ack! She is getting SO big!! I feel old.
53. lizpenn said:
there's a theory that all children look like their fathers when they're first born, and only later, when the helpless early months are over, start to resemble their mothers. the argument is that this adaptation evolved because men are hard-wired to take care of babies that look like them -- ie., there's visual proof that the child bears their genetic material, and is thus worthy of their time. like most theories containing the word "hard-wired," this seems bogus and creepy to me. but is it anecdotally true that most infants look like their pops? discuss.
54. Shiz said:
What a lovely young lady! Are you already beating off potential suitors with a stick?
And, for the record, Heather, I got to vote in absentia from Canada. I mailed my ballot on September 24th, my ballot for John Kerry. It felt SO GOOD.
55. Tammy said:
can I eat her up? just a little?
gosh, where did all that hair come from!! Hubby musta been slipping her the miracle grow in his drunken stupors ;)
56. Andrea said:
Since my husband is Chinese (and I am not), it was patently obvious when my daughter was born that she was his, and she did not look a thing like me for the longest time. Plus, people just see the dark almond-shaped eyes and go "Oh yeah, she definitely looks more like her dad" (unless said people are Chinese, and they see the brown hair and skin lighter than hubby's, and say "Oh yeah, she definitely looks more like her mom") But when she hit two, even the non-Chinese people started saying she looked JUST like me! My sister was at least honest enough to say she looked like a Chinese version of me. But if my half-Chinese daughter can look like me, Leta can (and does) most certainly resemble you at least part of the time!
57. ella's ma said:
My daughter only looks like my husband when she scowls.
58. Super Turtle Girl said:
Sort of. Uh. Not really. What if she's not your real daughter? Better talk to John.
59. Becca said:
She's adorable. I love babies.. until they grow up.. yeck.
60. anna said:
I didn't have the looks-like-dad thing myself. I've always looked pretty much like my mom. Although I somehow inherited a nose from my aunt, bump for bump. Can a geneticist explain that one to me?
If I ever have a daughter, I hope she gets her dad's looks. My husband would have made a foxy girl.
And that Leta isn't doing too badly herself with the Heather-and-Jon medley she's got going on. She's lovely.
61. Martha Winger said:
Seriously, a playgroup saved my stay-at-home Mom sanity. At least once a week, I would have meaningful adult conversation for several hours. And my kids got to learn how to share their stuff and not clobber other kids, etc. Is this just a mid-western thing? I found that not many Moms in our neightborhood stayed at home. I got hooked up with a playgroup through our school district's early childhoon education program. Forgive me if I'm repeating stuff you already know. I wish you all the best!
62. Sue F.O. said:
Playgroup saved my hubby from going through the sanity WITH me...I had other Mom's to drive insane, HAHAHAA
Leta is a DOLLBABY!
63. Heatheranne said:
You're making me miss those days, when my son was little. But not enough to have another one.
64. Dara said:
aaaaaaaaaawww! soooo cute! she sorta does look like u in that shot.
65. Nikki said:
Too cute. She's adorable.
Neither of my kids look anything like me, lucky girls!
66. Christi Lee said:
VIVA LETA!!
67. kp said:
she is SO. FREAKIN. CUTE.
AHHH
so cute.
68. Amanda B. said:
Nope, sorry babe. Husbando's gene is still way ahead.
Look on the bright side...she's beautiful! You could have had a child with Joey Ramone....
69. Tracy said:
"there’s a theory that all children look like their fathers when they’re first born, and only later, when the helpless early months are over, start to resemble their mothers."
That's what happened with us. My daughter was the spitting image of her father when she was born - you could have picked her out of a lineup of babies. But she is gradually taking on more and more of my features. Complete strangers comment that she looks just like both of us. She still has his eyes, though.
70. liz said:
Prettier every day. And smiling more, too, looks like.
(btw, you rank #1 on google when one searches for "mormon poop". congratulations.)
71. Lauren said:
She's so beautiful, Dooce. Look at her. Makes my heart all smiley :o)
72. Liz said:
OMG that smile is so precious! Wow... she just gets sweeter every day! Kiss her little baby cheeks for us!!!
73. Gerrybuick said:
Heather;
Yes, you DO take pichers everyday!
Just caughtup from friday, Wow
And Leta does look like her mommy kinda (think tracys got it right, having a handfull of the little tykes myself...
Maybe its time for an early form of Joy School..?
Just a thought...
74. Don Ulrich said:
Heather-After a 16 hour day a photo like that makes me smile. THX for sharing. She looks just like...Leta :-)
BTW I wonder what she is thinking about.
75. Amanda said:
How do you pronounce Leta?? My husband and I argue about this subject. Is it Leeeta or more like see ya Lata?
76. Amanda said:
I have those same great stories for my husband when he comes home from work!
77. Peter Hentges said:
You know ... Jon Stewart has been asking celebrities lately if his son (who is currently something like 9 months) can bang their relatively new daughters. (Billy Bob Thorton said, "Sure!" Gwyneth Paltrow was appalled.) Given how much Leta looks like you and how much, we assume, Stewart's son looks like him, do you think you'd do Jon Stewart and, therefore, Leta would do Jon's son?
(That aughta keep conversation with your Jon after work on a high intellectual level....)
78. Plainvanilla said:
Did you know Frank and Gail Zappa´s daughter´s name is Moon Unit Zappa?
Guess Fifi Trixibelle´s last name...