When I first discovered Trixie and her data-obsessed parents, Ben MacNeill and Jennifer Egan, I was both amused and jealous. I wished I could have been that great at recording information about my baby, I wished I could have been smart enough to develop a whole software system around it. I was eager for the day when the Trixie Tracker would be offered up to the public at large.

And then I waited. I waited as Trixie outgrew most of her telemetry, and finally, her web site went mostly quiet but for the occasional gorgeous photo.

Today, finally, the announcement came into all our email inboxes. The Trixie Tracker was launched.

I had wondered how it would be offered - software to load onto your computer? a module for your blog? - but I didn't envision a hosted web-based application. It looks slick, and it's clear why this took so long to launch - Trixie's parents thought of everything, from a variety of different options for leaky diapers to a useful tool that lets you indicate what's mixed into that bottle (and whether or not that pink bottle is the most recently mixed).

The Trixie Tracker has everything, starting with the über-useful sleep telemetry. You can track naps, bedtimes, and wakeups in the middle of the night. You can do it real-time or record the events after the fact. You can track poopy diapers, wet diapers, leaks, "open air accidents." You can measure your breastfeeding and pumping and bottle feeding - the tracker even lets you indicate right breast or left, and note what kind of food you ate before that pumping jag (yum, spicy Thai!). The modules that track the introduction of solid food and medicine dosages seem particularly inspired.

Of course, it can't be free. The Trixie Tracker only has one delivery method - via the web-based interface - and the pricing is subscription-based (but your information is never deleted from the database). It's $8 a month, or you can buy a whole year for $59.

I want to get this. I really do. I am sitting here, tapping my fingers on my keyboard, just wishing I could sign up for that 14-day free trial. But two things are holding me up: (1) my baby is now, at 10 months, a little too old to really get much use out of the program; and (2) I would rather have the module on my own web site than have it hosted elsewhere. If I use the Trixie Tracker for Truman, I couldn't in good conscience link to my page from here - the traffic might be a bit much (well, it's not like we're Douce or anything. I'm sorry, Ben, I couldn't resist - you need to spell check your FAQs just a bit).

And then there's another thing. It's so, so more than I would ever use. It's fabulous. It's wonderful. I'm just not that good.

Congrats to Trixie's parents for bringing up baby and a fantastic package of baby telemetry. I look forward to seeing the mainstream media reaction. I'm sure they'll love you just as much as our readers do (they've been tipping us all evening!)