Category: Toren

Debi and I have often shared a bag of popcorn at night after Toren goes to bed.  A couple of nights when he stayed up late, he had a chance to try popcorn and is a huge fan.  Now, during the 30 minutes of TV he gets right before bed, he often will ask for…

Continuing my tradition of letting Toren play with toys in stores, here’s a clip of Toren riding a pink scooter at K-Mart while I was looking for something: It’s actually quite interesting to see how tentative he was with this.  On toys he can sit on he’s not tentative at all, but he was on…

We’re still exploring Busch Gardens using our annual passes.  In an area of the park we hadn’t explored yet we found these planes, which Toren really wanted to ride:

Toy Story has replaced Cars as Toren’s go-to movie (well, that and Star Wars).  In this clip Toren is running down a ramp at the hospital where he goes to daycare saying “to infinity and beyond”: Toren has recently started to want to explore around his daycare when we pick him up.  I haven’t been…

One evening I couldn’t think of anything else to do with Toren so I came up with the idea for an obstacle course since he loves to climb all over the place. It was a hit (for about 30 minutes).  Here’s Toren working his way through the obstacles:

Debi recently taught Toren how to do the hokey pokey:

As noted in a previous post, Toren has taken to diving on and off things.  In this clip he is diving on his head on our bed as he dives over my sleeping bag: This incident inspired Debi to say to me, “You know, we may want to consider having another just in case he…

This was Toren’s second effort to eat like a pig:

Did I mention Toren likes to pretend to be animals?  Here he is imitating a pig:

Toren regularly imitates animals now.  The most common one is a dog, which involves him putting something in his mouth and crawling around.  In this one he found a bike rack in Plant Park (at my school) and pretended to be a monkey climbing it: