Edith and Theodore Roosevelt had a close relationship, but it was evident that Edith was his second wife. His first wife, Alice, was a pretty woman who died at the young age of twenty-two, so Theodore was able to remember her that way. Many people, including his sisters, were surprised by the announcement of Theodore and Edith's engagement in the "New York Times". Demonstrating Theodore's inability to move on from his first wife's death, he called his first daughter “Baby Lee” instead of “Alice.”