Author: rcragun

In honor of her birthday today, here’s a video of Debi with Toren: The music they are dancing to is custom music that Debi’s parents bought for Toren.  The songs dub in Toren’s name, so it is customized to him.  He likes dancing to it, especially when Debi dances with him.

The day after Thanksgiving, while the hordes were attacking the stores, Toren and I went to a nearby park.  Here is a clip of him going down the slide: My favorite part is his walk after the slide.  He swings his left arm really far and fast.  He only did that for a while and…

Toren received an early Christmas present from his Grandmary and Grandgary: his own Cozy Coupe. He’s quite the fan. Here he had parked in front of the TV like he was at a drive-in theater:

One of Toren’s favorite activities is popping bubbles (at least it was for a while).  He even learned to say “bubbles” and would drag us into the bathroom to get the bubbles out of the closet on a nightly basis so we could blow bubbles for him to pop.  Here he is attacking the bubbles…

We occasionally eat at Burger King because they have vegetarian options (the BK Veggie is pretty good).  We took Toren the other night and he loved the BK Veggie too: Though, in all honesty, he liked the shake more!

I’m not sure at what age I started eating artichokes, but I know Debi didn’t have one until we were married.  Toren’s a bit luckier.  At 17 months he had his first artichoke.  Here he is munching on his 3rd or 4th: He knows how to dip them and usually orients them correctly (he doesn’t…

Toren and I have spent quite a bit of time in Walmart over the last month while I’ve had my car serviced, then had the tires looked at (I had one going flat slowly), and finally a tire replaced.  While we’re there, I basically let Toren play with the toys – at least the toys…

Toren seemed a bit old and big for his highchair a couple months back, so we came up with a different idea: his own table. $20.00 at Ikea and Toren was set. He eats there, but he also colors at his table and generally plays there. Here he is playing with his markers on his…

For a few months now, Toren has been helping with the dishes.  A testament to social learning theory, Toren saw us putting detergent packs in our dishwasher.  So, one day he decided to do it.  And he did it really well.  He opened the cupboard, got out a single packet, put it in the right…

While I was watching Toren one Sunday afternoon I thought it might be fun to make sugar cookies with him and use cookie cutters to turn them into holiday cookies.  I remember doing this when I was growing up and thought it was fun. Toren seemed interested when I got the cookie cutters out.  He…