Turtle Face’s Appointment and Freaked Out

Tuesday, March 07, 2006, 10:58 PM
Posted in: Bloggy Stuff


My little turtle face girl had a doctor’s appointment today (I call her that because lately she’s been making this turtle face a lot). She now weighs 18 pounds 6 oz. She’s in the 94th percentile or something for weight but her head size is only in the 75th percentile. Her head is too small for her body!! Ha ha ha! Just kidding. She’s perfect I say!!! PERFECT! :)

And in other less fun and more disturbing news…I was checking my stats and saw someone linked to me and used a picture of Isabelle and altered it a little (not in a bad way, they just added some text). It wasn’t creepy like look at MY adorable baby and web page it was more like oh I like this and the baby looks happy but let me tell you it was sort of disturbing and freaking me out, the fact that my baby’s picture was out there somewhere I did not put and didn’t allow and these strangers were talking about her, MY BABY!! I’m ok with people linking to me but taking her picture and posting it…freaky!!

And I showed Alan. And it’s not just me. He felt a little disturbed by it too. My inital reaction was of removing her pictures and not posting them anymore. I mean it really freaked me out. And the more I thought about it the more I was bothered and thought oh hell what’s the use? I might as well just remove this blog COMPLETELY!

But today I’ve calmed down a bit. My family and friends keep up to date on us here so I don’t want to stop blogging. So I’ve watermarked this picture and will for future pictures and try to get the old ones too. I’ve put that script back on even though it won’t work for the bloglines feed. I could block the picture from showing up on bloglines but I really like reading feeds with the picture there so I assume others do too so I am not doing that yet…And plus people who read regularly aren’t going to post pictures of Isabelle in strange places. Right? RIGHT?

Right! Well we’ll see how I’m feeling about everything later. I don’t know what to do. I’m just all weirded out.

5 Responses to “Turtle Face’s Appointment and Freaked Out”

  1. Sarabeth Says:

    It is just a bit creepy. Linking to you site would have been much nicer. Did you say something to the person who did it?

  2. lumlumaaaaaaah Says:

    It is creepy. I don’t like that at all. That is why my blog is only for private people I know. I have it blocked off for strangers. At least I think I do. I have to go check now to make sure.

  3. ann Says:

    very creepy indeed. I got creeped out that someone kept coming to my site to look at a specific picture of one of my dogs, let alone on of my kids!

  4. futuregirl Says:

    The turtle face is precious! (Take a moment to enjoy the cuteness of such an adorable baby … ) That said, I agree that taking, changing, and posting a photo of your daughter is super-creepy. At best, the person just has no tact; at worst, well, I don’t even want to go there. I think it’s good that you mention it here and I think you should let them know you own the copyright to those pictures, they can not post them on their site, and that they should link to your site instead. How frustrating that you have to do this, though.

  5. Trixie Says:

    Is it possible to have a favorite Izzy photo? I think so. If so..then this one is it. I love the red top and her cute expression and her hair! Soooo precious (and not in any creepy,
    I-steal-baby-photos kinda way)!

    On that subject, I do think it is odd as I normally link to the page. Who knows maybe these folks need a lesson in blogging manners? Still very odd. How do you watermark things? I think it is a good idea especially if it means that you will continue to share Izzy with us and Nestle and Waldo.

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