Ryan and Debi & Toren

Category: Toren

  • hike at Cypress Creek Preserve

    Toren and I went on a hike on Thanksgiving to a nature preserve here in Tampa called Cypress Creek Preserve.  Parts of the hike were really pretty.  Parts were less so.  Here’s our route: The hike was 4.6 miles. I shot a couple videos of some of the prettier parts of the hike:

  • Toren racing me on his bike

    Toren and I often race – whether it’s on foot or him on his bike and me on foot (to catch him, of course).  Whenever he is ahead of me he’ll say, “My winning!” (i.e., “I’m winning.”  He hasn’t worked out the difference between “me” and “I” yet.).  Here he is “winning” on his bike:

  • Riding his (toy) four-wheeler

    Our neighbor bought Toren a really cool toy set that included a truck, a motorcycle, and a four-wheeler.  Toren really wanted to ride the four-wheeler, even though it is just a toy.  So he improvised:

  • What did you do at daycare?

    We’re not sure how this started, but we typically ask Toren what he did at daycare every day when we pick him up and he always responds the same way: by listing the names of some of the kids in his class: Mona (Ramona), Sammy, and Bobby.  We finally caught on video here:

  • Why use the sink when you have a cup?

    We asked Toren to wash his hands after he was done eating one night.  He had a cup of water in front of him, so he improvised:

  • asking Toren questions

    We had a good time asking Toren questions one night over dinner.  Here are his answers:

  • Toren climbing nets at Busch Gardens

    Toren’s a little young for some of the activity options at Busch Gardens, but that hasn’t stopped him.  In these clips he’s climbing on ropes and trying to get from one level to another.  It took him about 30 minutes to figure it out that day, but he eventually did and now he can do it…

  • Toren saying “Granmary-ny-ny-ny”

    Toren has a funny way of saying Granmary, which is what Debi’s Mom, Rosemary, prefers to be called by her grandkids.  He adds a cute “ny-ny-ny” at the end.  It’s pretty adorable and he did it all by himself:

  • Toren’s a biker!

    We found a new ride at Busch Gardens – motorcycles.  Toren dug it:

  • Toren playing on rocks

    I used to love to run around on rocks.  Jumping from rock to rock was a blast and I would do it any chance I got.  I still find it enjoyable, but less so now that I have a bad knee.  Toren appears to have inherited this interest.  Here he is playing on rocks while…