Author: rcragun

As I noted in a previous post, Toren has taken an interest in flowers.  Here he wandered into one of our neighbor’s yards to pick some wildflowers:

Occasionally Toren will march.  His march is a little strange as it primarily consists of flicking his right leg out really far, but not his left.  I caught it on video one day while on a walk:

On a walk one day Toren spotted a caterpillar crawling across the sidewalk.  We stopped to let Toren see it:

There is a reason Toren loves peas – garlic salt.  There is a little bit of scientific evidence that kids like foods that their mothers ate while they were in the womb, and Debi ate a lot of garlic salt (she had weird cravings for it).  So, I guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised…

I’m not sure whether I should be proud of the fact that Toren loves peas this much, or embarrassed that I let Toren eat his peas this way:

While Debi was gone, I found myself bribing Toren on occasion with cookies.  While I’m sure that’s not shocking to most parents, and I am disappointed in myself, the part that cracks me up is just how well Toren behaves in order to get cookies.  Here’s a clip of him just after he finished a…

I’m guessing most toddlers run like this, but I get a kick out of how Toren runs: He flails his arms in strange ways.  I finally caught it on film while at the WalMart in Hilton Head:

During the one nice day we had in Hilton Head I shot this short clip of Toren and Debi running around on the beach.  This is right by the famous lighthouse:

Toren has recently taken an interest in flowers.  We’ll be out in the yard playing (in our weeds; we don’t have much grass) and Toren will stop to pick flowers.  It’s pretty funny:

I took Toren back to the children’s play area at the mall for some play time a few weeks back and shot a little footage of him playing.  It was early and no one else was there, which meant he had the entire play area to himself: