Author: rcragun
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Toren opening presents
While I’m not sure Toren understands the idea of “presents” yet, he does now understand how to open them. Some friends sent him some gifts and we took a couple pictures of him opening them to illustrate: Toren also has a test he puts most of his new toys through. It’s kind of like the…
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Toren and the stroller
Toren is deeply in love… with his stroller. He loves to ride in his stroller. And now he has something new to do with it: climb into the storage compartment, which is a perfect fit for him. He figured this one out on his own the other day and we find him just hanging out…
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Toren’s “cute” face
While Toren still doesn’t say much, he understands more and more. One thing he started doing recently is making his “cute” face. I’m not sure where he got this, but when you ask him if he’s cute, he scrunches up his face into a cute little smile. I finally caught it on tape while he…
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ticket!!!
I got a fracking ticket! It actually happened on December 21st on my way to do volunteer consulting work for the Tampa Child Abuse Council. According to the officer, I was doing 50 mph in a 35 mph zone (I was coming down a bridge on North Boulevard over the Hillsborough River and he was…
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Toren-isms
I was headed out the door this past Saturday to go shopping and was taking Toren with me. I had him in my arms. As I opened the door and was ready to leave, I told Toren to blow Debi a kiss. He did. Then I asked him for a kiss. He took the one…
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A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant
On December 17th, Debi and I (along with two friends) went to the American Stage Theatre Company’s presentation of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant. As someone who studies religion for his job, is fascinated by religion, and lives near Clearwater, FL, one of the centers of Scientology, I had high hopes. Those hopes…
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Utah trip – January 6th
We spent the morning of the 6th packing up, then flew home. Our flight from Utah left around 2:00. We ate lunch before we went to the airport, but needed to pick up dinner in Houston. Since we didn’t have much of a layover, we grabbed Subway sandwiches on the way to our connection. We…
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Utah trip – January 5th
We took things easy on the 5th. Just before lunch I took Toren to REI to look at backpacks (for an upcoming trip) and Debi went shopping with her Mom. At REI, Toren saw a display model of his backpack and wanted to get in it, so I let him and carried him around while…
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Utah trip – January 4th
We had also talked about going skiing/snowboarding while out there with Debi’s brother-in-law, Brent, who is currently waiting for training for a new plane at Delta, which means he gets to go skiing a lot. I ended up going with him on the 4th. I had to rent a snowboard, and it had been almost…
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Utah trip – January 3rd
I spent a large portion of the day trying to get my mother’s new computer working and organized. We then went to another high school friend’s (Brad Anderson) for dinner. His kids were also great with Toren and we also had a great time.