too cute

Long-suffering Chuck! What a good dog!

adorable

very cute... i love that bedspread!

*PINK!!!*

Baby bed-head is the best.

Thanks, Dooce, for all the laughs and other awesomeness this year.

I am amazed (and completely envious) at how quickly her hair grows. This coming from someone who didn't grow hair until she was 2. Whose mother used to tape, yes TAPE, bows on her head so that strangers would know that I was indeed a girl.

But, no, I don't have a complex ...

What a marvelous dog! Hope you had a wonderful holiday...

Also, there is nothing cuter than pudgy baby hands.

"Lemme see that nose, Chuck. Here, smell this......Did you know that smells _just like_ Mommy's farts?"

Adorable picture.

Leta: "Look Here Chuck!" "I'm The BOSS!" "Look Here!!!"

Hee hee... what a great picture! Cute little Leta, po po Chuck. What a great pair they make, though!

I hope your Christmas was a Merry one, Dooce!

Looks like Leta is using Chuck's snout as a hand-vac. Not a crumb will be missed.

Leta, I love when you torture that dog! Its just too cute to be true! ANd by the way I tell you these games with the dog resemble what you should apply to your boss in years to come. GO, LETA, GO!

What a great dog.

I looked at the thumbnail and thought "hmmmm... lizard skin"

_click_

Said outloud "Awwwwwwwwww... so cute"

_scrolled down_

Then the first Google ad I see is called "Cute Girl"

*grin*

too funny

Very, very cute...

Cutest. Baby. Ever.

I love that picture. I think it is definitely one of my favorites. I also like to torture my dog, so I can sympathize with Leta's struggle over trying to warn the dog and then just pouncing on him

"Mommy, go get the spaghetti while I hold the puppy nose."

closet metrosexual said at 08:43AM, 12.27.2004:
“Mommy, go get the spaghetti while I hold the puppy nose.”

Hee hee... that is funny!

Poor Chucky.

Michelle:

I think you are absolutely right.

Once my hair finally DID start to come in, it was white/blonde. Being cute, my aunt called me a 'toe-head' which obviously caused my Mom to bawl for an hour straight thinking her child has a head actually shaped like a toe. Clearly, this resulted in a whole new kind of mom complex and that was the day I was introduced to the bonnet.

funny how little ones just love to torture dogs... eventually, the dogs just seem to give in.

my baby does that with my aunt's shitzu. which is a good thing because that shitzu had a pretty big ego before chaeli came along.

now he's given up and allowed chaeli to be the alpha-dog.

"Up, Chuck, Up!"

They're a fetching pair of cutiepatooties.

*Where is Chuck?..There he is!*

Oh. My. God.

HOW cute!

I saw those wobbling-head boombah things at Walmart, in full action with the noise-making, and is scared the living shit out of me. I felt like it was a scene from Exorcist.

But then again, I've never seen their TV show, so it was really a bit of a shock.

I think one of the strategies that first-born dogs have to stay part of the family "pack" is to be close to the kids, watch over them and put up with them. Dogs love their humans!

And hear hear, Kano. I think it was seriously scary here (and some of it was truly unnecessary) yesterday. I went away. Hope it's over.

Jenny,

My grandma did the bonnet thing too. Now I never wear hats. They dressed me in so much pink as a baby to make sure it was clear I was a girl that I wouldn't even consider anything pink for, like, 20 years.
My mother still gets indignant when telling the stories of how people thought I was a boy. But my hair came in dark brown and straight so the towhead thing never happened to me.

Of course when my super blonde brother was born, it was only a matter of time before I convinced him that my super brunette family had adopted him. Then I told him if he asked about it they'd send him back.
I guess giving and getting complexes is a particular skill my family has. In fact, having just spent the holidays with them, I know that is all we seem excel at.
Have a great day everyone.
M.

About yesterday.... funny that at least on Sept 7, 2004 that wacko loved dooce. Here's her proboards site http://debisis.proboards29.com/ Check out the info center at the bottom where she says " I love dooce.com.
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her personality, though heavily more crass[ed] than i could ever muster, is so refreshing and lovely. very embulient and funny... which is kind of rare these days...kind of like the sevenites ~ya know.
and she's blessed to be a mom AND awesome designer.

very blessed in deed. kudos to Heather Armstrong and her web blog."

Then she complains that she only prints hate mail? Way to generate hits to your site....it's all about the attention-eh?

Oh, how adorable. Pink again!

I love Leta's eyebrows.

What a great dog! I had an Alaskan Malamute like that.

so, wait. Leta *says* "Go, dog, GO!" when she sees Chuck?

She's talking?!

For real? Or am I just being too literal again?

i'm not absolutely sure that she knows what she's saying, but when she sees the book *Go, Dog, Go!* she repeats that over and over. and she only says that with that book.

and then she sees Chuck and says it. we've got it on tape.

Woah, words??? Why no first-word story or other speech tales? I'd certainly like to hear.

Please take pictures like this of Leta and Chuck and times them by 1 million :)

There are some things only a mother can understand. I'd be willing to bet she IS saying "Go, dog, GO." Maybe she's trying to give him one last chance at escape... "Chuck, get the hell out of here QUICK before I start squeezing your long snout and pulling on your ears!"

She says "go, dog, go" ???? She may not be crawling - but I'd say that's very advanced for her age. My kids never talked that early. :-)

As always - she's beautiful!

She is the most adorable little thing. But you already know that.
Being that she came from a bearded Armstrong and a Model like mother, there is no other way but to be cute!

Hey, Heather, congrats on the BoB thingy.

She may not grow up Mormon, but it looks like she's got that Faith Healer touch down pat already.

the poo bah creature has infected our home as well. anyone over 8 is afraid of it.

Leta is adorable. Chuck is a saint - go give him a cookie for being so good with Leta - it really does forgive him all his other faults (if he has any).

my daughter also got zing zing zing bah for christmas. she loves it the way you love a thing that has filled your soul and swallowed you whole. the way i loved scott baio when i was 12.

if you don't know who scott baio is shut up.

get over not wanting popular toy store toys in your house. they exist because kids actually don't like the fancy ass easy breezy pleasy colored toys snooty granola crunchers insist are far better for them.

ps, i am one of those granola crunchers, taken over by the wants and desires of my actual children.

My mother gave my daughter the little yellow shitpile Boobah doll, too, and I put that little bastard into the oven and cooked it until it's little yellow head popped off. You should have seen the looked on my daughter's face when I was looking into the over and shouting, "Die, Motherfucker! Die!" So precious.

sorry i made such a nasty comment yesterday. i was on the rag.

Cammie, you just scared me.
: ) love to Senator Chuckles - my mom and dad had to give away their dog cause it would snap at me when I played with it.
: (

Ashik, go read the comments from yesterdays picture, near the bottom.

Goodness, I go out to catch some after Christmas sales and 95 comments happen! Leta is way cute to look at, but I am hoping that loving a Boohbah is the whim of a moment.
For #45 Jenny-- This I learned in a fiber arts class. Tow: an Old English term for short or broken fiber (as of Flax or hemp) which is used for spinning yarn.
A Towhead is a person with hair the color of flax, which itself is very pale and straw-colored.
My Grandma always called me a towhead. After I got older and my hair turned to a mousy brown color, Grandma said I should bleach my hair then I'd look better.

i ALSO got the Boobah.

and i ALSO squealed with joy.

and yes i am 28.

My parents sucky comp doesn't display the pics. Oh well. Hope you and yours had a great Christmas, and hope you have a fantastic New Year's!

And yes, Boobahs are scary. Erg. I squirmed just now, thinking of them. Bleh.

MrsDoF: haha! Thanks! Story goes: after my mom cried her eyes out at her 'toe' shaped baby, my dad silently slid a dictionary across the table.

Despite his best attempts, she still insisted I wear hats.

I bet you're right, Amber. You smarty-farty!

Debbie/Rey is a pretty crappy person, but acting like you're her to send more hate mail her way is pretty crappy too. Not the ultimate crappiness, but close. Crap...such a multifunctional word.

Oh, Amber, I didn't mean that YOU were acting like Debbie. I just reread my comment and realized that it sounded like I was accusing you, but I promise I wasn't. Crap!

Me thinks Dooce needs a message board. Her comments section is getting out.of.hand.

I am another member of the "My mom taped bows to my head as an infant" club. I was also forced into bonnets whenever I was out in public.

Hey, when my girls were in the NICU, the nurses used KY to plaster bows to their heads. I'll take tape over KY any day.

And yes, I admit that I too have taped bows to my girls' heads too. A. has quite a bit of hair, but B's is still awfully short.

I once had a man ask if they were boy/girl twins. When I said they were both girls, he said, "Awfully butch hair cut on that one." The kids were 16 months old at that point. Grrrr.

Although, it's hard to beat the idiots who looked at both girls in matching pink shirts that read, "Girl Girl Girl" and the other read "Cute Girl" yet STILL asked if my kids were two boys or a boy and a girl.

People are going to be stupid and there comes a point where we have to take the taped bows out of our kids' hair and just come up with nasty comebacks.

Favorite shirt I saw on a guy: "Changing diapers. It's not just a job, it's a dootie"

Amber, Dooce commented yesterday that they were the same person. I took that to mean the email/IPs were the same in her stats. I didn't comment yesterday because people like that just want a response, and I had better things to do. Not to sound morally superior or anything.

Her employment ad has since been taken down. I wonder if the hosting site noticed the hits and tracked it back. Can they do that if it's not a proper link?

As someone who does have experience with uncircumcised penises (well, one), I have to give a well-meaning GEE, THANKS to Dooce, who is evil and must be destroyed. I may never have sex again. My only saving grace is that the Diva, age 4, is not into Boobah.

Oh, and on topic, Leta looks beautiful with bedhead, and Chuck's face is priceless.

I do nominate Rey/whatever to be the next Blurbomat Whore. Who seconds?

Baby pictures. Cute
Dog pictures. Cute
But a baby with a dog picture: plain old adorable.

odd...

http://debisis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=randomchat&action=display...

http://debisis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&username=adm...

Wow I had alot of reading to catch up - I haven't been here in a few days!

What else does Sweet Leta say?

Love the latest pictures! I hope you and yours had a fabulous Christmas!

As for that one Rey person and her comments, there is just no accounting for some people's stupidity. Absolutely rediculous. Whatever Trevor.

Anyway, love to you all, and all the lovely Dooce-a-holics out there!

Hugs,
Karen

heather-
what would you do if leta was allergic to dogs? would you keep chuck or leta? ;)

i’m allergic to all pets, which royally sucks. but my mom has pictures of me strangling the cat (i thought she liked to be held that way) and then a follow up picture of me all swollen and puffy and not being able to breathe.

i’m just glad that leta isn’t allergic. having a pet-free existance is sad. if i hug anyone who has a cat i have an asthma attack…that’s now bad i am :(

Hey, I'll take bows over having my ears pierced as a baby any day. I had such a hard time when I did get my ears pierced that I'm so glad she didn't do that.

Taping bows to my head didn't hurt. I remember a 6-year-old me fighting back tears when I got my ears pierced (for the first time. I had to get them redone 3 times each after that).

Who the hell figured you could use KY to stick bows to kids' heads? Not only did the NICU nurses do it, but one of the photographers we went to when the girls were tiny suggested it too. How on earth do you find that use?

Dooce -- Did you SEE Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last night? The Woffords! I cried like a baby for two whole hours.

I have 6 nieces, not one of them had hair until they were at least 2 years old. I remember my sisters buying little tiny bows that had velcro fasteners. They never worked. Now I'll have to tell them that they should have used KY all along.

Leta and Chuck. Too cute!

You ARE beautiful enough to be a model and believe me, no autistic child I know can say "Go dog, go!"...best wishes and Merry Christmas..

You need some kind of 'first post' gets changed to 'i suck' script. I'll never understand first posters but I'll always be annoyed by their pointless pride.

I know! Chuck is a Buddhist and he is in the zone in this picture.

Mean people suck, there is just no other way to say it.

I ate leftover turkey for lunch and then I read yesterday's discussion and now I feel guilty for the turkey.

But I'm glad I didn't go online yesterday. Shit.

Hiya Amanda B!

Yay, pointless pride!

Huh? My autistic child can say Go, Dog, Go. Huh?!!!

What's that about an autistic dog? I didn't even know they made those.

*ON BOOHBAH ANTHROPOLOGY:* Tinky Winky could take all them mother-fuckers, like Homo Sapiens kicked the crap outta the neanderthals. I mean, it's obvious that the "Boohbah" is just a lesser-evolved form of Teletubby, right?

Yeah, she lives an incredible life and has many fans who are way addicting and want a life just like her.

I'd be one, but I'm about 8 years younger so I can't really comprehend the whole family thing.

I think the boobahs look like Darth Vadar after his mask is taken off at the end of "Return of the Jedi".

Hey, Dooce, we want to see the amazing jewelry you received! Selecting jewelry for someone else, even for a special someone else that you know really well, is tough. Good job, Jon.

Dave, I'm woth you on the "FIRST!" thing.

DOOCE: we need a message forum. Check out www.delphiforums.com

I'd just like to say that my niece, who is 10 months, also loves Boohbah. It's disturbing. She got the purple one and it scares her grandma. Have you seen the tv show? I think it may be a step below teletubbies.

There is nothing wrong with an uncircumcised penis.

Is it me or is the popular blog-specific punctuation of the moment writing stuff Just. Like. This.

Gary at Science Fiction Twin rocks. I asked politely (after searching through his archives myself with no luck) and he sent me a link to the very best Boobah post ever:

http://www.sciencefictiontwin.com/blog/2004/02/boohbah-analysis.asp

Bu.UHHHH.UUUURRR.UuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurP.

Okay, even though I've only read ONE Boobah post (2 minutes ago), I think I can safely agree with Drama Queen that it is the best Boobah post ever!

Oh, and I had another t-shirt idea: "They say that tough guys wear pink, but so do baby girls, moron."

:)

I was gonna ask for a Dooce Comments Section Imposter for Christmas, but I heard they're a bitch to house-train.

sam and lady bug...stop. you're killing me, I am laughing so hard.

question to peoples: how in the hell do you find out so much information on someone? I mean, you guys had email addresses, personal webpages, ads people have out....

You all should be ePI's. I can't even remember my weblog address if I didn't have that 'remember me' button clicked! hee hee.

Yes, like what I am doing now. Bwahaha.

she is so adorable :)

Sorry about all the bold in the previous comment. I was just so discombobulated by the penis thing. Always did make me nervous.

Two things:

1) I think George woould want me to have the Nintendo thing about which he wrote in his e-mail. Send it to my attention at once.

2) I have been telling everyone I know to SAY IT TO MY FACE, BITCH! since the other day. I blame you.

Oh sleeping snowbunny GEORGE!

And DADDY GEORGE!

Texas is pretty darn close to Arkansas... GEORGE DO YOU HEAR ME?!

I'M IN TEXAS! George! Come visit!

Awww George!

That is such a sweet letter.

See? Dooce doesn't always just post hate mail.

I'm in Texas too! Texas has many fine learning institutions and I politely demand to know which one gets GEORGE!

I've also go to say that, as part of this "the Internet" of which you speak, we do very much miss George already.

Come back GEORGE!!