There's something about this picture that makes Trixie look so grown up -- it's certainly not the onesie or the boots. Hmm: it must be the glance over the shoulder.

Where'd the bangs go?

I'm not really sure she has bangs anymore. We trimmed a tiny amount a while back, but it grows so fast. Now we are able to just sorta sweep the whole mess off to the side.

Ah- the birth of a future fashion trendsetter. Here, Trixie has paired a no-frills white onesie and happy-go-lucky rubber boots with an oversized turquoise and gold ring (it might be a band-aid, but that's too bourgeoisie for our girl). Combine that ensemble with her "I dare you" espression and you've got a look to make the girls in the 1-3 yr set green with envy.

Ahh, the return of Trixie's mad ghetto swagger. I wouldn't mess with her, that's for sure.

rosa is right, you are in for it ben. the boys are gonna come a knock, knocking at your door all too soon...

[Editor's note] I deleted the comment posted by Rosa due to content. It was not a malicious comment, but it contained phrasing that I don't want included on this site. Normally I am able to contact the reader when something like this happens to see if the comment can be modified, but no email address was given, and so I had to remove the entire comment.

In case any readers are wondering how much of this goes on, it's very infrequent. To date there are 3,727 comments on the site, and I have tagged less than 10 for editing (with permission of the reader) or removal.

Ben --
Does the 10/3727 stat include comment spam?
Do you get a lot of comment spam? I've seen bits here and there (and then I see it go away) but I'm curious if there's a lot more I don't see.

--FrumDad
[Google Wangle: Orthodox Jewish Father]

Comment spam is not included in that number -- not by a long shot. Despite using Blacklist we still get a ton of it. I would guess about two dozen pieces a week, and it usually comes in concentrated waves. The worst time was one morning when I woke up to over 200 spam comments posted to the site. It took about 15 minutes for the despamming script to delete and rebuild all the affected stories.

It comes in waves for me too. I use Blacklist as well, but it's gotten so bad that some days my server is slow becasue every blog with comments is getting hit at the same time.

Ben - if you set old stories to automatically require moderation regardless of content, then you won't have to rebuild like that. Legitiamte users get a "your comment is being moderated" message.

Is it me, or does it look like Trixie's torso is ahead of her body in this picture?

Whatever the case, it's cute as usual.

I was just wondering what kind of batteries keeps your digital camera running...my batteries always seem to be depleted when I go to use my camera.

BTW, I am a new reader to your website and, being a science geek myself, I have throughly enjoyed all your graphs and such about Trixie's development...and Trixie is pretty cute too!!!

John: That's a valid solution, but I like to let readers get immediate gratification when they post a comment. I figure that's worth a little bit of spam that gets through (that I don't catch immediately.)

Scott: It is. She was really sticking her belly out in this shot.

joanne: It's the battery that comes with the camera. (Canon PowerShot S-45) It doesn't keep the charge as well now that it's getting old, but it's still enough for most days. I'm glad you like the charts. thanks-

Only 3727 comments? If I had to guess I would have thought it was much higher. I suppose traffic is much greater these days than the first few months. It would be interesting to see graphs of site traffic and to see how famous Trixie has become.

Will there be a special gift for the one-millionth commenter? Well, maybe it will take a while to get there. How about for comment # 5000?

She looks like a little diva/model. lol...that expression is so cute. I too was wondering just how much traffic has jumped up with all the exposure lately.

Our site traffic isn't a big secret. There's a link on the home page at the bottom of the left-hand column called "Site Meter". It takes you to a webpage that provides rudimentary site traffic information. (Many personal websites and blogs display a Site Meter button.) For technical reasons, the numbers displayed on the Site Meter page do not reflect accurate levels of traffic, but they do reflect relatively accurate trends.

'Visits' are the only thing that matter; 'Page views' don't really count for anything. There are also some links that show traffic trends over the last weeks, months and year.

If you want an estimate for the number of actual visitors you can double the number of 'Visits'. That puts you in the ballpark according to the more accurate server logs I run at home. Hope this helps :)

Learned about the Trixie site last week on national news. So cute. Immediately told my twin sister about the site. We both lamented that we didn't have the technology to keep a site like yours. We did keep a feeding journal so if someone got up with the baby, we would know if anyone else had just fed him, changed him, etc. or whether it was an "easy feeding."

This journal was very helpful to all of us - -the tired adults. Never realized how much quickly the feedings come the first 6 weeks or so.

Our son, now in college, was in daycare from 4 months on and was ill (daycare exposure) quite a bit. However, my twin sister was a stay at home mom and they lived in St. Thomas and their son was at home the first year and wasn't sick once. I had warned her about illness and she said "what illness."

We love your site. It is great to check each day.
Trixie in boots is adorable. She is a lucky child to have two such great parents who obviously love her so much.

Our babies share a birthday, just a year apart. If you're interested you can check them out at www.birdbomb.com/twins. I love your site and check it often for updates. Jen is my inspiration--I've been pumping for 196 days and am hoping to make it to the one year mark. Glad there are others out there who can appreciate my pain:) Trixie is totally cute!

(*gulp) ben: i must admit i was gutted to see you deleted the comment. as i believe you know - i didn't mean any harm, and i'm really sorry if i used phrasing you didn't like. this is ironic for me though, because i've followed your site for quite a long time, but never commented. and the first time i do, i give the wrong impression.. peace, please? :)

Hi Rosa,

I'm sorry I had to delete your comment :( I hate doing it -- especially when I can tell that no harm was meant. I'll email you to explain more, and again, I'm sorry your first post turned out to be a doosey.
No hard feelings -or- wrong impressions. thanks for understanding :)

Trixie looks so much like her mom in this photo, at least from the pics I've seen on this site!

:)

Hey I have a question..hope you guys can help.
My 10 month old baby is moving about, but sometimes as all babies do, loses balance,and gets hurt from the hard wood floors. I get concerned about her head.
What should we do? I put down throw carpets, but it doesn't seem to help.
Installing carpeting isn't an option...
what to do?

I don't know if this will help allay your concerns, but we always found Trixie's head to be harder than we thought and no real harm has come from her many tumbles. My back-up answer is bubble-wrap.

#2 in series of "Trixie Looks Like A Rock Star"

its the swagger...

You already know that she is going to be a handful when becomes a teenager. Good luck with her Dad, don't let her pull too many moves.

Is Trixie clearly a leftie or a rightie? I am amazed that she seems to use both hands so well. Left for holdong the cup or medicine bottle, right for brushing teeth, etc.

She's a rightie, but as you noticed, she still uses her left hand from time to time.

Ben/John -- isn't there some sort of Bayesian filter that could be set up for comments. I recognize the math would be a little tougher, because the samples are small and the text to be tested itself is often pretty short, but still, it seems it would be possible.

Note, that I'm *not* suggesting a new coding project for anyone. Just floating an idea.

Anonymous (re Head): Kids are way tougher than we think they are, except in very specific ways (in which they are often less tough than we think they are.) Kids fall and bounce and then get up and run around after hits that would leave us old folks on the ground for a good bit. I mean, yeah, it's always good to have a little padding going on, and the corners on some things get a bit dangerous, but overall... seriously, wow.

(On the other hand, for instance, the joints and bendy parts of kids are softer and *more* prone to injury.)

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, or anything remotely like one, so take this for what it's worth.

--FrumDad
[Google Wangle: Orthodox Jewish Father]

D'oh!

Lesson learned: check Google before being all clever-like.

--FD
[Google Wangle: Orthodox Jewish Father]

So serious, you should get trixie in modeling. She could be an old navy baby or something. I tell parents this when I take their childs portrait and they do a good job but I really really really think trixie should be a model!

She is so beautiful! you'd be rolling in big bucks... erm i mean you'd be saving lots of cash for her education!

Maybe anne geddes will be calling soon.... I don't know anything about her, does she find baby models for her pics or what? well whatever she should be contacting you!

Oh my goodness i just noticed this I hope I do the html right.... Trixie is spitting image of jenn

Its the same face the same look! So Jenn I guess you should be a model too!