Author: rcragun

During the outing to Busch Gardens mentioned earlier with some friends, I snapped this photo of Toren in front of the lion pen: Busch Gardens also has some bronze lions kids can sit on, which Toren and Serena did:

I took Toren to a play area in a local mall one day.  Some older kids were running around like maniacs, knocking over all the little kids.  Toren, seeing the chaos, chose to just sit on this stork and watch: Later, Toren found a small game attached to one of the walls.  Just as he…

Alas, this isn’t from just recently.  It’s from September.  It’s a picture of a cute boy with his cute mom swimming in a friend’s pool:

Toren does like pancakes.  But he is quite particular about them.  Every pancake has to have its own bowl.  That means that when he is really hungry, his table looks like this: He didn’t eat all of the pancakes.  But he did take a bite out of all of them… 😐

Yes, Toren likes pasta for dinner a lot.  But while we had these cheese puffs, they were an attractive alternative for him, much to our dismay: I eventually started letting him have them for dinner just so we could get rid of them.

On two separate occasions I walked into our bathroom and found items carefully arranged in a row: You never really know what he’s going to do these days.

Debi and I were talking over dinner one night about Toren’s development.  His language skills are coming along fine and he’s always been perfectly well-developed with his physical skills.  But Debi had noticed that he is particularly good at problem solving.  If he can’t get something or wants something, he’s pretty good at figuring out…

We’ve been trying to help Toren learn that he has more than one name.  He knows the other names – “Marx” and “Cragun” – but he still doesn’t seem to realize that they are names for him. We tried quizzing him one night to see if he would remember what his last name is.  Here’s…

Debi and I were in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner while Toren was sitting at the table.  While we chatted, probably about some issue one of us was having with our research, Toren spoke up.  Here’s the conversation: Toren: “See mommy!”  (“see” means “look”) Debi: “See what?” Toren, pointing to the water he just…

I didn’t get enough footage of Toren as a Jedi, but I did catch these two short clips of him as a Jedi at the Halloween fair at UT.  In the first clip he got to decorate a cupcake and then eat it, which he loved: In the second clip he’s just walking between activities:…