CIMG4058 Originally uploaded by tompayne Halloween for the adults was celebrated at Doug and Anabela’s house this year. The costume demonstrated an eclectic mix of creativity and…well…ah…creativity. For example, Tom and Brian chose to show up as Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg’s alter egos from an Emmy Award winning...

William is obsessed with pumpkins. This time of year, he sees them everywhere. He doesn’t miss one. Here Grandma is helping him decorate the pumpkin he got at Jackson’s birthday party. More pumkin news: William brought a pumpkin to nursery school on Thursday, where the class got to paint...

Tristan and William helped their friend Jackson celebrate his second birthday at Outhouse Orchards. The Halloween themed party included a hayride, pumpkins, facepainting and slimy Jell-o spiders. What could be more fun! Sadly, Tristan and William would not sit for the picture above. It needed to be patched together...

Tristan is very excited about his Halloween costume this year. Originally, we was going to be Luke Skywalker (and he wanted his daddy to be “Dark” Vader). At one point, he thought at being Batman would be cool. Things change. Tristan’s mom was very excited about taking T to...

This Saturday was our “return to Turtle Bay”. The family drove down to 46th Street in Manhattan to participate in the annual “Oktoberfest/Kid’s Festival” sponsored by the Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. Along the way, we stopped by the old apartment and visited with George, our old doorman. This...

Tristan came home today from school and sang a adorable song (to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”) “I’m a little appleSmall and roundI make a crunchy, munchy soundIf you bite in to me, you will seeI am delicious as can be” He was talked into appearing on...

Last week was the first day of school for both Tristan and William. Tristan is returning for the 3’s program, and William has taken over Tristan’s classroom from last year. Both boys are very excited about the new school year. Tristan has grown a lot since last year’s pictures…...

There is a blog worm going around…so I had to risk upgrading the system today. Looks like it worked. If you have any problems, let me know ASAP. Tom...

His mother and others will insist that he has pulled together 3+ word sentences prior to this, so this may just be his first documented sentence. His mother will also be appauled by the topic, but dad thinks it is adorable. This morning while playing with Wall-e and Ev-a,...

Today’s adventure (and blustery weather) took us to Barnegat Light at the northern tip of Long Beach Island. This year, the lighthouse is 150 years old…and was relight on January 1, 2009, after years of retirement. Since it was a nasty day, we had to wait quite some time...