I’m excited to let our readers know that the Trixie Update is featured in an awesome, in-depth piece by Jonathan B. Cox in today’s News & Observer, my hometown paper, with some great photography by Mel Nathanson. Here’s the article.
As the subject, I’m biased, but I have to say I am floored by the scope of the piece, the narrative he created, and the detail that went into it. The accompanying timeline is a particularly interesting idea to me personally, namely because I have never looked at the past nine months is such a consolidated form — it’s all been a blur. And for those of you who live down here, don’t miss the actual paper version. It’s an above-the-fold story (in the Connect section)!
That article is how I found you. This site is great. I’ve got two girls of my own–2 and 5. Very nice data.
Loved the article on your family in the N&O! (We live in Raleigh, NC.) I also think your site is great. I thought my husband and I were the only ones who obsessively tracked each and every little thing about our son. In fact, we were just talking about this last night. Then, I woke up this morning and there was the article. I feel better now. Although, I must admit the sleep charting you did was depressing. I keep hoping it gets better (our son is 2 months) but, it doesn’t look like that happens anytime soon. Trixie is adorable!
Yippee!!! What a good article – congrats to the MacNeill/Egan clan. And I love Trixie’s chompers – they’re so cute I might just let her bite me for fun, kind of like a puppy.
Hannah
Doooood. (My wife hates it when I use, “dude,” so it’s become a sort of in-joke with myself. And now you. Anyway…)
Congratulations on the press. I read the article and it’s really well done. Kudos to the author (and editor) as well.
I got here through someone (I don’t remember who) who originally saw it on MetaFilter. Which means there were a bunch of folk who were already visiting regularly.
But even so, I’m starting to feel like an oldtimer. Welcome newbies!
I *still* think it’d be interesting to track how many visit and how often relative to how they found the site. It’d be a neat view on the demographics of the readership of the various publications, more than on the demographics of the Trixie Clan, but still…
–FrumDad
Hi! A friend forwarded the article and a link to your web site to me today — my daughter is also named Trixie. Great stuff! Congratulations! We kept what we called an Input/Output log for a few months but decided not to Web-ify it, though if my maternity leave had lasted one week longer, I might have done so out of sheer boredom.
If I remember correctly (and that is doubtful), I believe this is at least the third time Ben has managed to get investigated by the N&O. Just can’t keep yourself out of the headlines can you.
I think the News & Disturber jinxed you when they said you had gone all those hours without a leak because it looks like a leak just happened last night. Hope it wasn’t too messy!
MacNeil, Good to see you are still making the news. I was unaware that MacNeil Industries had a new division: Trixie Inc. Jones Enterprises will also be adding a new corporation in July.
I think the article was wonderful, and look forward to hearing more from you soon.
Sincerly,
Brian, CEO
Jones Enterprises
Re: N&O article.
Kinda cool after seeing all these info and pics of Trixie to see a chronicle of Ben as he chronicles Trixie. Awesome as always.
I used to be an N&O copy editor for, among other things, Connect; I left a couple of years ago to become a stay-at-home mom (two girls in school and preschool, and a 3 1/2-month-old boy). One of my friends who’s still on the section let me know as soon as she found out about your site, knowing we would be hooked. And she was right! Thanks for logging all the seeming minutiae that parents secretly obsess over. Great to see it in Connect!
I wanted to say welcome to all the new folks, and thanks for your comments.
As for you old timers:
Hannah: Even puppies can have rabies.
FrumDad: I’ll see about getting some statistics up about the site, but it’s sort of a low priority. I use a desktop client to examine server logs and that’s why there is no ‘web statistics’ link available on the site.
Charlie: where’s LexisNexis when you need it?
Jones Enterprises: it’s been too long. I sent you an email.
Zenzile: Always good to hear from you.
BenMac,
I wasn’t looking for any non-Trixie statistics management or display, I was just thinking out loud. Honestly I think there might be something a little too meta- in putting up statistics about the statistics.
–FrumDad
Great website. I spotted this in the N&O (good story too) and thought it looked cool. My wife told me to check it out as we are in the “preparing for kids” stage. We both want ‘em. She’s ready now while I am still figuring out what it will mean to be a dad. Now I have this website to tell me all about it! The good, the wonderful, and the ugly is right here along with plenty of dry humor. Keep it up!
Cheers, Derek
PS Would be interested in it if you ever share or sell the web code, as mentioned in the N&O.
Congrats!
The article answers 2 questions I had:
1. Whether you’d moved back to NC.
2. Whether you used a Mac.
Now I just need to know if you still dig David Bowie and all my questions will be answered.
It’s amazing. We live in LA but somehow are living nearly parallel lives, right down to first teeth. I only wish i were as tech savy. For now its graph paper and nice pens.
Sarah
John: on occasion.
Sarah: I like your description of “graph paper and nice pens.” The web is instant, dynamic and the reach is broad, but it can be ephemeral. There’s something to be said for a nice print piece. Old school rules.
I just read the last article, the update and enjoyed one more time. It feels like I know Trixie each day a bit more. Keep on Ben!. It is lovely to see the growth of a child through the father’s eyes.
Rita – South Brazil.