Category: Toren

We’ve let Toren watch a lot of movies that could reasonably lead to nightmares for a 3 year-old: all of the X-Men, The Lord of the Rings series, all of the Harry Potter movies, every superhero movie you can think of (including the dark Batman series), etc.  Since we let him start watching those movies,…

Toren wanted to watch an episode of Star Trek one night and we didn’t have enough time before his bedtime, so we told him no.  Here’s his response:

Toren’s Granmary (Debi’s Mom) made him a superhero comforter to go with his wall decals (he has superheroes all over his walls).  Here’s a video of him opening the comforter and checking it out:

Toren likes to put on these little shows occasionally.  For a couple of weeks he was pulling his shirt over his legs and bouncing around like this:

Here’s a nice little video of Toren hiking in his explorer jacket the neighbor gave him for Christmas:

We were talking to Toren last night while eating dinner about his daycare.  One of his friends, Bobby, had gotten in trouble during the day.  I asked him what happens to the kids when they get in trouble.  He told me that Bobby had to sit by himself while the teacher read a book to…

Toren just recently entered a new phase, the “I don’t like you phase.”  When we would ask or tell him to do something he didn’t want to do, or if he had to do a time out for some reason, he started telling us, “I don’t like you.” After about the third or fourth time…

Toren was watching an episode of Wild Kratts this morning while Debi and I got ready for work.  In an effort to remind him that he was going to be coming to my work for my tenure and promotion celebration, Debi mentioned to him that I worked with some biologists, that they might be at…

Toren picked up how to do hopscotch:

Toren’s Granmary sent some Valentine stickers that Toren immediately wanted to put up.  Here’s a clip of him applying them: