Author: rcragun

One of Toren’s favorite activities is to pop the air bubbles that come in our packages.  Here he is with a particularly long chain of bubbles:

While Debi was on a trip one weekend I started teaching Toren poker.  He didn’t really get it, but it was fun:

He still doesn’t do this very often, but he seems to be growing more and more interested in computer games:

We’ve let Toren watch a lot of movies that could reasonably lead to nightmares for a 3 year-old: all of the X-Men, The Lord of the Rings series, all of the Harry Potter movies, every superhero movie you can think of (including the dark Batman series), etc.  Since we let him start watching those movies,…

Toren wanted to watch an episode of Star Trek one night and we didn’t have enough time before his bedtime, so we told him no.  Here’s his response:

Toren’s Granmary (Debi’s Mom) made him a superhero comforter to go with his wall decals (he has superheroes all over his walls).  Here’s a video of him opening the comforter and checking it out:

Toren likes to put on these little shows occasionally.  For a couple of weeks he was pulling his shirt over his legs and bouncing around like this:

Here’s a nice little video of Toren hiking in his explorer jacket the neighbor gave him for Christmas:

We were talking to Toren last night while eating dinner about his daycare.  One of his friends, Bobby, had gotten in trouble during the day.  I asked him what happens to the kids when they get in trouble.  He told me that Bobby had to sit by himself while the teacher read a book to…

Toren just recently entered a new phase, the “I don’t like you phase.”  When we would ask or tell him to do something he didn’t want to do, or if he had to do a time out for some reason, he started telling us, “I don’t like you.” After about the third or fourth time…