Mommy's Love and Daddy Duty-Update on Joel Madden Nicole Richie and Harlow Winte

Mommy's Love and Daddy Duty-Update on Joel Madden, Nicole Richie, and Harlow Winter Kate Madden

JOEL MADDEN - MADDEN: 'HARLOW IS GOING TO BE A ROCK STAR TOO'

Caption: Joel Madden
plays a DJ set at the Trojan Evolve Party at The Roxy
Boston, Massachusetts ....

JOEL MADDEN is convinced his baby daughter HARLOW is destined to follow in his musical footsteps - because she is already showing a talent for tunes at just nine months of age.
The Good Charlotte rocker admits he could one day be hitting the road with Harlow - his baby with Nicole Richie - performing as father and daughter.
He tells People magazine, "I have a feeling she's going to be musical because she loves instruments.
"She has a little piano that I took the legs off and put on the floor. She lays there and just bangs it."
But Richie is hoping Harlow becomes a dancer instead: "She's going to be a dancer. I'm going to put her in ballet (classes) when she can start walking."
But they both agree on one thing - Harlow will get to choose.
Madden adds, "I just want to give her the option to try whatever she wants."

Nicole Richie's Militant About Mom Duty

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Call it the year of the comeback: Britney cleaned up and is releasing a new album. Paris is running for prez—sort of. And Nicole now spends her time pureeing green beans and sweet potatoes for daughter Harlow, according to a new People profile.

Hollywood's gone soft, and we couldn't be happier. It's not so sexy, but there's something really sweet about the fact that Nicole obsessively chronicles her kid's every move.

"She has notebooks and notebooks full of the first time she [Harlow] rolled over, the first time she laughed...Everything she's ever done is in that book," says boyfriend Joel Madden, who claims the Good Charlotte tour bus is a no-party zone these days.

So are you on board with this new and (potentially) improved version, or do you miss the wild ways of Tinseltown's onetime terrors?

JOEL MADDEN - MADDEN TAKES ON PLANE PAPARAZZO

Caption: Joel Madden
plays a DJ set at the Trojan Evolve Party at The Roxy
Boston, Massachusetts ....

Rocker JOEL MADDEN recently launched into a mid-air brawl with a fellow jet passenger who tried to take photographs of his girlfriend NICOLE RICHIE and baby daughter HARLOW while they were asleep.
The Good Charlotte star turned protective and scared the intrusive stranger off when he felt his family's privacy was being invaded.
He tells People magazine, "There was this guy and his two teenage daughters wanted to take pictures of her. I was like, 'Hey, she's asleep now. Maybe when we get off the plane, you guys can take a picture.'
"The guy just stood up, turned around and started taking pictures of her, and I kind of got into it with him. I was like, 'I can't believe you're arguing with me. This is my newborn daughter and my girlfriend.'"

Nicole Richie & Joel Madden: 'We're So Blessed'

She purees her own green beans and records her daughter's every smile in a journal – making her "the best mom I've ever seen," Joel Madden, speaking in PEOPLE's latest cover story (on sale Friday), raves about girlfriend Nicole Richie.

Richie and Madden just moved into a new L.A. home after spending the summer touring with Madden's Good Charlotte band, and are in the midst of organizing an Oct. 19 walk in L.A. to help end family homelessness. But when they spoke with PEOPLE, what they really enjoyed talking about was their 9-month-old, Harlow.

Nicole: "Harlow's a delicate soul. She studies people. She's very coy. People say that she and I make the same expressions. But everyone says she looks like Joel."

Joel: "I'm cool with it, as long as she doesn't look like me in a wig when she's 16. I like that she looks like me – it's my get-out-of-jail-free card."

Nicole (on maternal responsibilities): "I think my sense of self is still the same. But I don't do things, we do things. I work around her."

Joe: "Nicole is completely dedicated. I do whatever she tells me to do. I'm cool with that. She's really good with the baby. I'm really good with finances. All of Harlow's education and all that stuff, I already have planned."

Nicole (on marriage plans): "When we get married, everyone will know. It will happen when it happens.

Joel (on having more kids): "If it could be as easy as Harlow, sure."

For the complete story – including how Richie re-organizes her routine to accommodate Harlow's needs and prepares the baby's meals – pick up this week's PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

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	-: 10/09/2008 4:32 PM wow. yeah i really think Harlow looks like Joel! and she's so cute too! :D
	bloodytactics: 10/09/2008 10:58 PM a7x55 said: wow. yeah i really think Harlow looks like Joel! and she's so cute too! :D haha yess!! i so agree with ya hun!