LIL' SHREDDER

We've all been there. At one time or another all of us have felt the pain you get waiting for the arrival of some new toy, super part, or (Brooklyn!) bike. Every day you check for progress, looking for signs, pestering the delivery man every chance you get, driving yourself crazy Xing out boxes on the calendar...
But then it arrives, and there is no greater satisfaction to know that all those months of saving and waiting and obsessing were worth it- a feeling all too familiar to our welder Seth and his wife Tristan, who after nine months of anticipation were rewarded with the most expensive gift of all:

On 10/10/07, during the middle of a fierce NYC thunderstorm, Kellan Phillip Rosco was born, expanding the the BKLYN family by a healthy 6 lbs and 10 oz.

Here's a pic of the happy father, dreaming of the day Jr. will drop into a halfpipe.