Memorial Day in Chappaqua

Tristan and William (along with mom and dad) enjoyed their first Memorial Day Parade in Chappaqua. No sign of Senator Clinton this year, but there were the obligatory vetrans.

Pool Party!

We recently joined a local pool club and they kicked off the outdoor swimming season with a Pool Party. The boys seemed to enjoy themselves:

License to Drive?

William has adopted Tristan's "coupe". He really gets a kick out of it. And no, he is not really trying to merge onto the main road in front of the house...

For Sale: Kawasaki GPz 750...and Tom's youth

In his 20's, Tom enjoyed riding his Kawasaki GPz750 through the California countryside. But when California instituted a helmet law, Tom found himself spending more and more time in his convertible...so he sold the bike to his good friend Adrian. Besides, Tom had just (personally) finished rebuilding the engine after blowing out a piston on the way home from Laguna Seca Raceway (in the middle of the dessert). He wasn't very confident in the bike after that.



In January 2007, Tom and family went out to visit CA and stopped in on Adrian. While there, Tristan was able to test fit the bike. He seemed to understand the thrill.

Well, Adrian has decided to sell the bike. He is advertizing it, but doesn't expect to get many offers for a 1989 sport bike. Jennifer is quite happy that the bike is all the way on the left coast, so there is little chance Tom will just drop in to pick it up.

Tom said good bye to the bike a long time ago, but there is a certain sadness in this second goodbye. A lot of good times were had with that bike...memories now confined to a scrapbook.

Big Boy Bed

Tristan has a new "big boy" bed. Thanks to good friend Andrew, Tristan has a really cool race car bed, made by Andrew's dad, Roger. The bed looks like a fire engine red Formula 1 racer complete with wheels, exhaust and a huge storage trunk.



Tristan was so excited about his new bed that he had to jump in right after his shower...before putting on any PJs.



He even let his little brother, William, take a spin in the race car.



It took Tristan quite a while to get to sleep for the first time in his new bed. First the excitement needed to wear off...and then he realized that the crib he had used for the past two years was missing. He asked for his crib back a couple of times, but eventually fell to sleep. When he woke up this morning, we still wanted to know what happened to his crib...but he was very excited about his new race car.

April in Paris

"April in Paris" was the theme of Gab's Bat Mitzvah Saturday night. The invitation read "dress to dazzle", so Tom and Jen showed up in their best...Tom in his tuxedo and Jen in a cute cocktail dress. The artist of the picture below must have been colorblind...as both Tom and Jen were dressed in black.



Iris and Wayne know how to throw a party...with lots of novel ways for their guests to feel like they are in Paris...or at least look that way. No, they didn't fly us to Paris...or have the Eiffel Tower moved to NYC. It's a digital backdrop:



And, oh yeah, there was this video:



Jennifer thought it was so funny to see Tom dressed up as something out of a Village People video that her head litterally fell off.

Junior League Wine Tasting

Jennifer had been working with the Junior League Fund Raising Committee on the "Around the World in 80 Wines" for quite some time. Once the event was successfully in motion, Jen and Tom had some time to enjoy the wines...