Dear Fans of Simonial Kagledom,

It has been a good 3+ years documenting Simon's progress from a fetus into an infant into a very silly boy. I never intended to create a blog - it just sort of happened out of my desire to inform family and yet stay away from talking on the phone. I'm glad everything turned out this way. We have a record that we can refer to when we can't remember even the slightest detail of those fuzzy first months. We have so many photos that I wouldn't have taken had there not been that nag in the back of my skull reminding me that it was time for another boppy shot, another weekly-ish shot, or that this or that person would probably really like to see a shot of THIS.

In any case, it has been fun but it is becoming harder to ignore that Simon is a real person now with feelings and memories of his own. We all have those moments when embarrassing stories of our youth are shared. Moments when you want to kill your family members on the spot for sharing. So it is time to give Simon the privacy he deserves and the freedom to remember things how he chooses without his mother's imposing perspective.

This does not mean we are going to stop blogging all together or that there will be no more photos or stories including Simon. No, we will continue to update the Flickr site with photos and we're certain that Simon stories will pop-up occasionally on our newest baby blog. Yep, you read that right, we've made the leap and, against our own advice, are doing this again. Simon's sibling is due in mid-December and our goal (being second children ourselves) is to give this kid just as much Internet space as the first. As soon as the other site is ready for public consumption, a link will appear on the Kagledom home page. Everything on the Simon pages, from the very beginning, will remain.

Thanks for stopping by.

All the best,

Hava