Retour a la saison froide!

Hello!

Nous voila tous les 4 de retour dans notre petite bulle d Hanover! 

Apres avoir passe 6 semaines en Europe nous avons pu retrouver notre chez nous, notre routine, nos amis... 

C est une sensation etrange que de quitter la France... a chaque fois... un melange heureux et morose a la fois... C est difficile de se replonger dans notre quotidien et dans ces habitudes adoptees il y a 1 1/2 an deja! Nos habitudes sont un peu comme une pizza-crepetisee... ou tartiflettisee pour nos savoyards! enfin je me comprends! ;.)

Cet hiver glagla! -10°C la journee et -25°C la nuit depuis plusieurs jours... C est bien bien different de l annee passee! Et pourtant nous en avons loupe 6 semaines!

La semaine passee Chloe a repri le ski qu elle adore, teleski, telesiege, plots pour stalom en descente - une veritable petite championne! La semaine prochaine nous feterons l anniversaire d'un de ses amis depuis les pistes - sounds so good!

Elanais commence a marcher / se lacher disons par inadvertance - elle fait 6/8 pas puis se retracte et demande la main. Elle dit quelques mots pour l instant en Francais sauf "this" et "that" mais elle dit aussi "ca" (avec la cedille)!

Notre etudiant a repris ses etudes et entre les entretiens d admission qu il fait passer et les mock-interviews pour les interresses en banking + les cours il est bien bien occupe...

Nous commencons deja a penser a notre depart d ici et surtout a tout organiser pour la suite. Aie aie aie...  un long fleuve tranquille?... Tiens il re-neige... On sort les skis?

Bises a tous!

Best wishes for 2009 from the Pichon Jr!

New interview from Aurelien...

Aurelien speaking about his experience at Tuck on the web...

"The american way of romance"...

Click on the picture to read the article

Daddy s working... working... working... good!

We are today sunday and our dear and so precious Aurelien is working very hard on the other side of the Hudson river...

His first official week of work started very smoothly last monday (he was on training the previous week). The staffer was not onsite... - here his your office, check if you have everything you need, here is your blackberry, try to connect yourself etc... He was 100% operational but that monday morning there was not much. Then little by little he got busy, very busy and on thursday extremelly busy as the sample of a real life in banking started there. And since well he is... busy... thursday : 8:30am-3:30 am and zzzzz - friday : 8am - 1:30am and zzz - saturday : 9am to 1:30am then zzzz - sunday : well he is still onsite but think that he will be able to take a couple of hours off before to join back again. Bouhouhou i was planning to go and see Summer Stage in Central Park - we ll see how it goes. My life these days is full of surprises!

The blue sky is coming (back) after the rain, but they plan a big storm at the end of the day... a little bit maybe like in the Pichon family...

See you!

Chloe... 4 years old already!

Time is flying! Our little "crevette" (could be translated as shrimp but this is actually one of her nicknames...) just blow her 4th candle away!

The day started around 9:45 for the 3 of us... - our little Mr left for work about 2 hours before.

Chloe discovered all her birthday presents together on a chair in the living room...well our bedroom eheh!... So hophophop she ran to open and unwrap presents - covered with the trendy trend of the moment... princesses paper! Lots of ohhhh and ahhhhhh - then i read her birthday cards and promessed a thousand time to read later on this book or this magazine... and then her stomach spoke : "i m hungry!". So breakfast for me and Chloe then we made a couples of things here and there. We made a good Skype session with Tata Floflo with to key stories : ptit ours brun, tchoupi, princesses etc... some kind of web baby sitting in a way! Then lunch and beddy bed time for Elanais before our big adventure of the afternoon and the surprise for Chloe : the Children museum of Manhattan. There Chloe was able to go and play all along living lots of experiences wiht the fire truck, the bus, the market etc. But most of all over there there is the worlds of Dora and Diego. The museum is great for kidos. Then we went for a tea-time at Helmers place just one block away to celebrate and enjoy one of there delicious ice-cream : the treat of the day! We spoilt each other and i did not very much diet that day, but still it was quite reasonable. Chloe chose a plain chocolate one with m&ms on it... Baby Elanais drank nicely her bottle and me just one scoop of mint-chocolate ice-cream. I took lots of pictures - particularly for Daddy who was obviously not able to join us there and hophophop we head home. Diner time and Chloe was over excited because she had to blow her 4 candles away! She was so excited that the sandy man (french thing i guess) need thousands of tones of sand to bring her asleep. Here it was the 19th of june 2008...

Oh and thanks a million for all your emails and cards - friends and family - it was so nice for her!

Bises a tous!

Raw Tomato Salmonella Warning

Tuesday June 10, 2008

Yesterday, the United States FDA confirmed that a U.S. nationwide "salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of certain raw, red tomatoes". Previously, the alert had been confined to certain states. The FDA advises that people NOT eat the following types of tomatoes, or products, such as fresh (uncooked) salsa made with these tomatoes:

- Round Red Tomatoes
- Roma Tomatoes
- Plum Tomatoes

The following types of tomatoes are consdered SAFE:
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Grape Tomatoes
- Tomatoes with the vine attached
- Home-grown tomatoes

Symptoms of Salmonella:
Severe diarrhea, stomach cramps, fever, nausea and vomiting within 12 to 72 hours of exposure. The illness usually lasts four to seven days. If you believe you could have salmonella, please see a physician. This is a reportable illness which is being tracked.

Source : http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/b/2008/06/10/raw-tomato-salmonella-warning.htm
For updates : http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/tomatoes.html