Ryan and Debi & Toren

Author: rcragun

  • Toren riding an electric four wheeler

    Our neighbor bought an electric scooter for her young son but he outgrew it pretty quickly after she bought it for him.  One day while we were outside playing she brought it over and gave it to Toren.  It took him a while to figure out how to ride it and make it go with…

  • Toren cleaning the toilet

    We posed Toren as a plumber a while back (mostly so I could take a photo of his plumber’s crack), but now he’s actually trying to help with the toilets.  He sees Debi clean them and knows that she uses a brush and moves it around inside the toilet.  I caught him doing it one…

  • Toren with a noodle and a ball

    Also while at Walmart Toren found a floaty noodle and a beach ball and developed a new game: hit the ball with the noodle (not all that novel, but unique for him):

  • Morgans et al in Florida

    I finally found the time to post summaries of the Morgan Family’s trip to Florida in late May.  Here are the relevant links: Morgans et al in Florida – Day 1 Morgans et al in Florida – Day 2 – Animal Kingdom Morgans et al in Florida – Day 3 – Magic Kingdom Morgans et…

  • Toren riding a scooter at Walmart

    During another automotive pitstop at Walmart Toren found this cool little Red Flyer scooter.  He instantly took to it and proceeded to ride it around the entire store.  The short video clip below doesn’t really do his speed justice: He was really moving on that thing:

  • Toren eating watermelon

    We’ve struggled to find fruit Toren will eat.  He hasn’t liked any of the following: strawberries, grapes, blueberries, mango, canteloupe.  He’ll occasionally eat the following: bananas, apples, oranges.  And, finally, he likes: pears (canned, of course), and watermelon.  Here he is chowing down on some watermelon:

  • Popcorn and Glee

    Doesn’t every family let their 23 month old little boy eat popcorn and watch Glee?

  • asparagus

    Another veggie Toren likes is asparagus.  Here he is eating it with butter (or butter with asparagus): He also decided to help out one day and break off all the stems… and then break all of the rest of the asparagus into tiny little pieces:

  • quite the diet

    Probably like most parents, we struggle to find food that Toren will eat.  He does like veggies, but not all the time.  He loves sweets, but we refuse to give him those (most of the time).  In this first video we were having pancakes with strawberries and whip cream.  He doesn’t like strawberries, but will…

  • first Easter egg hunt

    One of my former students invited us to her daughter’s first birthday party, which happened to coincide with Easter.  Debi was headed into finals week, so Toren and I went.  It was a great party with a bouncy castle and lots of treats and fun activities, including an Easter Egg Hunt.  Since Toren was too…