Congratulations to my lady!
January 29th, 2005The title should be “ladies”, but Heather is my lady, and Leta is my girl. Heather and Leta are featured in the New York Times! (registration required)
I’m so proud. And they spelled Heather and Leta correctly. o
Neato burrito, bandito :-).
Wow, featured in the New York Times, and she’s not even 1 yet…great things ahead for the little Leta lady!
That is an adorable picture. Congrats to you all.
I know, saw it this morning, great picture, good article. But most importantly, EXCELLENT horrify-the-prom-date fodder.
Really really cool.
That IS absolutely awesome! I hope you are all proud…
I only wish the stupid bastard from the sushi place last week could see it, though I doubt he is literate.
ìDude, plenty people know about her website.î LOL
40,000 Dooce readers can’t be wrong.
It’s always fun to see press coverage of someone we all feel like we know! I love Leta’s face in that photo… she’s so cheeky!
Oh that is the sweetest picture of Leta. She’s so adorable I want to pick her up and blow mouth farts on her little belly all day.
Oh, and Heather’s hands look good too. But I don’t want to mouthfart them.
I just wanted to say Congrats on Leta’s 1st birthday. My son just had his first birthday (Jan. 16th) and it was so exciting and wonderful. Enjoy!
AAAAH! I can’t wait for our copy to come in the mail!
that is awesome. i have such a crush on your whole family.
Great photo - and really interesting article! That’s awesome
As one of the 40 thousand readers, I am so proud of all of you!!!
Great job, thanks for sharing the news!
I did a happy dance this morning when I logged on to the NYT website and saw Leta’s beautiful brown eyes peering out from the screen. Like, “Yippee! I know that baby!” Like I’m a part of your tribe or something. (I need a life!!)
Happy, happy, happy birthday to Leta on Thursday. Thank you for sharing your stories with the internet.
Leta looks lovely and Heather…or Heather’s ARMS look lovely too. Congrats to everyone. It’s great you all are getting the press you most certainly deserve.
Hippo birdie two ewes Leta!
Leta looks so much OLDER in that photo, like she could be five or something. Scary!
Leta’s vision must be practically bionic because look at the size of those eyes!
I’m in love.
Sorry, I take that back. I should have known better, her birthday is early this week. Why did I follow like a lemming when someone wished her a happy b-day? Because I cannot read, that’s why. Sorry, I suck.
BTW I didn’t like the slant of that article towards the end. I resent the accusation that all mommy and daddy bloggers are navel gazers. I think someone like Heather has something real to offer or she wouldn’t be so popular.
i can just see leta striking that pose in about 13-16 years…
“fine mom & dad. whip out the old blog photos of me infront of my boyfriend. oh! not the one of me naked in the sink!”
Congrats! That’s so cool! I was kind of hoping for a rare picture of Heather smiling, but that picture of Leta was so cute! I fully agree with bran - I have a crush on your whole family.
I agre with bran and jess..major crush on your whole family. Do you need a 33 year old live in nanny who would come with a female version of chuck? Adopting 50,000 internet children is going to take some paperwork. I don’t subscribe but I am sure the article is great!
As a person opting not to have children, I think — hell, I know! — Heather’s blog has much more to offer than just mommy stuff, and I disagreed with the article in that regard. And personally I like that Heather explores the entire range of feelings motherhood has brought out in her, not just the Hallmark ideals. I wish more people who were thinking about having children would give these things more thought.
can you guys even believe that years from now you’ll be able to show leta a picture of herself on the COVER OF THE NYT STYLE SECTION?!?!
the mind boggles.
Wonderful! Has the Today Show called yet? Mark my words… they follow in the footsteps of the Times and NPR. Can a Newsweek cover story be far off? You Go Girls!
I saw it. I LOVE the picture. It’s so nice to read about Heather and her take on Motherhood as opposed to being “Dooced” (even though it was mentioned briefly in the article).
She has so much to offer in that arena. Congrats girls!
Ohmygosh! The photo in the paper is so big! It’s like half of the page!
Awesome!
You can use bugmenot.com to get past the crazy registration business, if you want.
that’s a great article. and the photo is awesome. leta looks so precious. you guys are the coolest parents EVAH!
just wrote long drawn out rant on that article. Love seeing the pic but it was such a dumbass bit of writing. Saw it linked too on another parent’s site last night and started typing away. Totally excited at first when I saw Leta and recognized her. Happy for the website and dooce! Conrgats! I also have to say heather talkign about her postpartment depression actually made me realize that it wasn’t me being weak when my boy was born. God I could write you both fan mail forever but I’ll end it with Thanks. You help and entertain.
Anybody notice the photographer was Tom Smart? I remember him from when he was the spokesman for the Smart family when Elizabeth was missing. Anyway, it’s a great photo.
Dude, I’m in PR and do you know how many of my clients would kill for placement like that?
Congratulations. And Susie - remember a while back on Dooce when Tom Smart took photos of Heather for an earlier Times story that never ran her photo? If not, look it up - great entry, actually, since it was not too far after the Return of Elizabeth.
The NY Times article left me feeling a little empty. It was lacking some of the more important reasons that parents blog in the first place: community, feeling like you’re not alone, contributing to society in a round-about kind of way. My biggest problem is with the article’s assertion that parent-bloggers are crashing towards a self-fulfilling letdown: “And of course the more parents blog, the less likely they are to get the attention and validation they seem to crave.” For me, flexing my fingers into flowing sentences, and seeing the fruit of my non-paying labor in all its monitor-glowing glory is reward enough….although a picture of my kid in the Times would be cool too
blurb, you make pretty babies.
jon,
congrats to your girls. this is so exciting for heather. her website has not only helped herself, but so many others. she deserves all the success that comes her way.
jenn
I can’t believe how grown up Leta looks in that photo.
Congratulations to you all! That’s really awesome.
AWESOME article. I’ve never met you guys, but you feel like friends, and I’m really proud of Miss Heather and the Lovely Leta.
When I looked at the photo caption under dooce’s picture on the right (black sweater/shirt) I got a little misty eyed. Seriously.
Yall are the best. Congrats on one year here’s to many more!
I am a regular Dooce reader but popped over here for a change. Congrats to you and Heather (and Leta)!
awww, what a sweet picture. she is a beautiful little sweet heart!
beautiful photo. interesting article. self-absorbtion? please. those people are pissed they didn’t have the guts to write about all the things everyone is feeling but afraid to express. parenting is scary/rewarding/painful/tedious. everyone needs validation. mothers very rarely get it (who is there to say damn you did a fine job emptying the dishwasher…over and over and over again!). the bigger the network of expression the less people will worry about whether these feelings are ok/natural/occuring in everyone. i had a playgroup with my child and there were only 5 other women-a few who wouldn’t express any anxiety. now if i had a baby, i would have a whole network.
some people don’t have the natural gift for seeing humor in things until someone points them out. with a daughter who is turning 14, i can read heather’s blog (and other parenting blogs), see her angst, remember mine, see that it has turned out ok and laugh at my new anxieties a 14 year old brings.
thank you for both your sites. they are both appreciated and enjoyed.
The article was short, then it had to be superficial (unless the writer was exceptional, but that’s uncommon in press). What I think makes the article interesting is that it provided some thoughts (+ and - ) and links to some pages, so readers can go to the blogs and get their own opinion on the whole issue.
Anyway, years to come, it will be nice to show Leta her photo in a major journal.