simon-pure Simon

self-portrait #1

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got my reading glasses

2012-01-28T13:28:00.000-06:00

simon sittin' 'round the lights

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simon and nana make dumplings

2011-12-28T16:00:00.000-06:00

christmas morning

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simon prepares cookies for santa and puts them out

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simon and nana

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simon and papa snuggling on the couch

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simon busy @ preschool

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simon's puddle ride

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simon's first album cover

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simon and eric on the longboard

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simon in the fire engine drivers seat

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simon at school - day 1

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Simon in the backpack - ready to mow the lawn

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Simon pulls Desmond in the wagon

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dolphin on a bike

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safety first

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Simon in a bag

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Evil Grin?

2011-01-20T20:08:00.001-06:00

Perhaps leer is a better word?

Simon on the streets of New Orleans

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Simon @ Bayou Segnette State Park, New Orleans

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Simon @ village creek state park

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Simon @ the skatepark in Houston 12-17-2010

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Simon sends off his application for a new sibling

2010-12-13T11:50:00.001-06:00

There was a gecko on the wall in the bathroom...

2010-10-16T20:55:00.004-05:00

My first thought was to kill it.
My second thought was to catch it without hurting it and put it out of the house.
My third thought was to reflect on the way that 'uninvited guests' (insects, geckos, etc.) increase the speed with which man made objects (like houses) decay.
My fourth thought was about the impermanance of all things and the silliness of being worried about how fast one thinks one's house might be decaying.
My fifth thought was that when my first reaction to seeing a gecko on the wall in the bathroom is to feel grateful and joyful that such a beautiful little creature is sharing my home... then, I will be where I want to be.

I wonder what the gecko thought?

(oops, i posted this on the wrong blog. eric)

Boys in a box

2010-10-10T18:08:00.001-05:00

Skater Simon

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Simon & dad on the ramp

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Simon in the big shoes

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First back yard camping overnight adventure

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Simon and Dad Reading

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memorial camping trip in Kerrvile

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simon falls in love with the ukulele. jon plays and simon asks for more.

a great weekend with christy, jon, cindy & amara at the guadalupe
river. eric delivered a sermon at the uu church of the hill country.

simon and noli watch the air spade at work

2010-05-12T15:00:00.001-05:00

it was loud, it was messy, it was great...

simon 'cooks'

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simon masters the culinary arts

simon at 15 months

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yay, sticks.

simon with great aunt barb and great-great aunt joan

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simon enjoys his first splash pad adventure

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champion of the water works. mick and indi got splashy with us.

dad & son swang

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simon plays with his new bath toys

2010-04-17T18:15:00.001-05:00

the blue star lights up and turns as water fountains from the middle and the green frog holds the ball with the yellow star - you can use it to scoop up water. bath time fun. thanks olivia and caroline! love, simon

in search of the perfect austin t-shirt

2010-04-16T17:00:00.000-05:00

we spent the morning looking for t-shirts and the afternoon at the alamo drafthouse south. it was a slowish day in comparison to the rest of the week. last day of the austin tour...so sad. simon loved seeing his cousins first in the morning.

hill country tour-destination fredricksburg, enchanted rock and cooper's with pit stops at whittington's jerky, wildseeds farm and luckenbach

2010-04-15T11:00:00.002-05:00

the judds and bluebonnets - a texas hill country tradition

2010-04-14T11:00:00.001-05:00

photos at mueller are the only documentation for that day, so my brain that is actually creating this blog entry on june 20th has forgotten what else we did that day. one of the best reasons to update the blog regularly...
and then I remembered months later (it's october) - we went to georgetown because rick read that it is one of the best cities to live in in the US. we went to sonic; the kids' favorite and the georgetown museum.

ut, trailer tour and ut again

2010-04-13T10:00:00.005-05:00

thanks to caroline we have many visual memories of the judd family visit - here are just a few pictures from our first full day of adventures. we started with a trip to ut austin (harry ransom museum, photos of the tower and surrounding area, a tour of the school of architecture) then we went straight to south congress. that is where we had our first 'trailer cafe' experience: the mighty cone (a trailer of hudson's-on-the-bend). most of us indulged in fried, greasy goodness. rick went for the vegan tamales a few trailers down and shocked us all. a stroll in the congress shops and a quick caffeine break at jo's got us ready for the most exciting stop of the day: gourdough's gourmet donuts. the donuts were delicious and ridiculous at the same time - sweet, so sweet and big and gooey and overwhelming. we got 8 different types and passed them around. each person seemed to have his or her favorite. after that we had to go home and rest from all the eating, but not for too long because we had tickets for a ut baseball game. we stayed until the 5th inning then ran to our final destination - man bites dog on manor. the day ended with buffalo hottie, my big fat greek dog and frito weenie pie. by this time simon called quits for the day and got us all to stop our nonsense and go home.

ut austin - caroline has perfected the self portrait

simon cheers for ut

the judds visit austin

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the first of many photos of little mister by his cousin caroline

last day of music class at the hepburn's

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big boy bed - again

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we love taking pictures of simon while he sleeps - his bed

is just so big and he looks so litte when he isn't on the move.

simon the sailor man...

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simon and fletcher and bluebonnets

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big boy bed redux

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eric came running down the stairs for the camera while simon slept to

capture an image of simon peacefully sleeping in his too big bed

easter morn and bluebonnets

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after throwing a bunny, simon headed outside for a moment

on the swing before we drove to the hill country with indi,

mick & adam for some Texas bluebonnets and barbeque.

simon plays peek-a-boo by covering one eye with his hand - very entertaining.

simon contemplates about his youth passing him

by while he poses for 'one more' photo.

the family

the #20 to the capital

2010-03-22T17:00:00.000-05:00

fletcher and simon snack while waiting for our return bus

zilker zephyr train ride

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the averett ranch

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where boys are cowboys

and 4-wheel drivers

and whipped cream eaters

st. patrick's day

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a green balloon and irish soda bread - what a day!

anna lee's birthday

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so many bunnies

and a little puppy

all the moms and babies love to hang out together at the coffeehouse,

and it's even more fun if we get to celebrate someone's special day...

simon (and undertreehouse) is so popular

2010-03-14T13:30:00.002-05:00

the same weekend whit photographed the house, adrienne breaux photographed us and the house for the web magazine we are good kin - http://www.wearegoodkin.com/article/young-family-modern-living

she first saw the house on the AIA homes tour in October 2009 http://www.aiahomestour.com/Architect8 and then wrote an article about loop design for rare magazine - http://issuu.com/raremagazine/docs/january2010

(pages 68-69) it worked out well for us because we only had to really clean the house good for that weekend.

in between photos, simon took time out for lunch.

photo shoot of house and simon is sick

2010-03-12T13:00:00.000-06:00

whit photographed the house friday and saturday for an AIA 2010

design award application, and simon was sick and would only nap in

this position. eric was kind and brought me my ipod.

scrubba-dub-dub little simon in the tub

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one of simon's favorite things about his house

trip to the household hazardous waste facility

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simon and I wait in line to 'dump' our old paint cans. we didn't

get out of the car to properly document our adventure because

it turns out many people needed to offload paint cans on Wednesday.

simon at 13 months

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and so freaking adorable.

playing with amara & emma (and cindy)

2010-02-28T15:00:00.001-06:00

amara teaches simon how to use her music table, and sneaks in a kiss. then we played on the playscape and the swings. amara is a fabulous swing pusher.

and it is may and this is the last february post!

simon feeds himself - yum...

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walkin

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snow day! yeah!

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and why is this small amount of snow such a big deal? because

it rarely snows in zone 8. snow at noon - gone in 4 hours.

snow day

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again just because he's cute

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'sweet' boy tries to publish mama's age and mama foils his plans...

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music class redux

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simon frequently sits with other mamas & papas and 'breaks' my heart

on music day. i'm thrilled he's so comfortable during class, but it is

awkward to sing 'wheels on the bus' and do the motions to myself.

simon and flecther drum together - the kids bang and bang on
the drums until the sticks go back in the bag - very cute.

simon looks at neal with rapt attention every week -

he wiggles in my lap if someone blocks his view - he just
wants to watch neal, the guitar, the movements...

josie cutie

and sweet, sweet fletcher

valentine's day hair cut

2010-02-14T17:00:00.001-06:00

we cut the longer curls and bottled them so we always have the 1st curls -

simon held them and longed for days gone by...

happy and smiley and then apprehensive

and happy again.

seriously the shaving of the locks was a little traumatic - there were tears and very tight hugs while simon tried to climb up me to get away from the clippers

oh so handsome and then he spits up and has a costume change before books

valentine's day kisses

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happy valentine's day - we forgot to wear red - a very low key sunday

simon leaves mama for another mama - again

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simon leaves my lap for another lap - josie & addie

share their mama; I sing to myself.

big boy bed

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simon looks so tiny in his huge bed

simon's 1st birthday party

2010-02-07T13:00:00.001-06:00

simon had cake

and got to eat it, too

friends who dressed him in ribbons,

walked with him,

made crazy for the camera,

and played with him.

birthday boy & girl (nana's birthday is feb 2nd)

happy birthday simon - the musical

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another fun day with nana

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the day started with christie & eric rearranging furniture for music class,

then christie enticing simon to eat peas and brown rice,

then nana kissing on simon (he loves it - hopefully that will last for years),

then simon checking himself out before his friends arrive for music class,

then simon completing ignoring his mama and nana during music class
- he prefered to lean on another mama,

and finally a delightful excursion to costco so simon could go shopping in the winter weather. and a cold, rainy winter it is turning out to be.

nana visits austin for birthday celebrations

2010-02-03T16:00:00.002-06:00

as soon as nana put opened her suitcase, simon climbed in to help her unpack. simon had a full day - a visit from friends, a trip to the airport, and a special week a head with nana.

simon's journey home day

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simon came home with eric and christie at 7pm on february 3rd - very soon after that flecther, valerie & dallas came for the 1st view of our little boy. then 4 days later simon officially met fletcher. it's been a super fabulous first year.

only the gate keeps crazy crawler out

2010-02-03T14:00:00.001-06:00

february 1, 2010 - simon's 1st birthday!

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simon amuses us while we sing happy birthday to him. he will get cake on february 7 at his b-day brunch - we are mean, but not that mean. well actually see below and you can decide. be kind, please.

after all the festivities of the morning - birthday banana and

singing, simon visits the doctor on his 1st birthday. he's

happy, though, that he gets to hang out with dad for the day.

brunch with the sandicks

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the boys look both serious and suspicious of each other

bud's birthday karaoke

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date night for christie & eric - YEAH! bud has his birthday at the highball.

eric sings 'if heaven ain't a lot like dixie.' they didn't have it on the playlist, so eric set up a boom box with headphones to 'sing' the song on his own. it was a beautiful experience. so beautiful amy wipes tears - laughing tears.

el chilito with baby boy

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january 12th dateversary night and friends visiting

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fletcher stayed with us while his parents went out for a date anniversary

dinner. i made the boys sit for photos because that's how i roll. then liz and rich came home with the boys for some chinese food and hanging out.

simon shows the apple who's boss

2010-01-09T15:00:00.012-06:00

simon eats an apple by himself for the 1st time - he is

fascinated by the apple and does a nifty job of it.

how long does a boy teeth?

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simon eats his green fish - that or our fingers.

just because he's cute

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a playdate with indi

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indi watched simon while simon watched her. i got to wear the moby one more time...

gulp n giggle

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christie pretended to swallow making gulp sounds, which really cracked simon up.

social security office - the long wait

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eric sings, tickles, reads while simon waits patiently to get his social card

cutie bootie goes for the tree

2009-12-29T17:30:00.000-06:00

thanks aunt ann! a nice way to show off simon's nether region.

amara and simon start their first band

2009-12-29T16:30:00.001-06:00

amara on drum, simon on xylophone - unfortunately

simon quit the band in favor of eating the drum stick

dee dee, dylann and reed watch simon

2009-12-28T19:00:00.005-06:00

simon had a great time with his friends - the park, hugs, kisses, balls and books. dee dee tries to get eric and reed to behave while dylann hugs simon. soon after dylann and reed try to ride eric and simon chases after a ball that is located behind a large potted plant. dee dee probably breathed a sigh of relief when we left.

the new hepburn family christmas tree

2009-12-26T12:00:00.000-06:00

oh the wonderful activities you can do...

2009-12-26T08:00:00.000-06:00

play with your new fish castanets

ride and pull your new wagon

lick the freezer (notice little boy handprints)

lick the windows

wear a polar bear hat

read the very hungry catepillar and have a picnic lunch

christmas eve chills

2009-12-25T17:30:00.000-06:00

keeping simon warm after christmas dinner with the averetts

simon's stylist taking his job very seriously

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new gifts

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christie's new shades and eric's new shirt - never the twain should meet

christmas morn kisses

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