Category: Toren

Even with a handful of graham crackers, Toren can’t get enough sticks:

After the possums showed up in our yard, Toren wanted to get up in our kitchen window and look for the possums every day for about a week.  Here he is knocking on the glass trying to see if they’ll come back:

A couple of cute photos taken about a week ago to celebrate Toren’s 2nd birthday:

Perhaps my worst pun ever, but it’s true.  Here he is prepping a stick:

After the zoo we took Toren to McDonald’s to get ice cream cones.  Debi is a huge fan and has turned me onto their soft serve cones as well.  Toren has had ice cream before, but this was his first McDonald’s cone.  He loved it: We even convinced him to lick the ice cream at…

The same night we went to see the dinosaurs, we did a few other things.  Here are Toren and Debi going down a slide together: Now Toren, kind of alone: The little girl behind him was actually watching over him as he climbed up to the top of the slide and came down.  She was…

Toren has recently started pretending (I think he’s pretending at this point; maybe he’s just imitating).  He crawls on all fours to be a dog.  In this clip he’s flapping his arms like a bird:

I’m sure lots of little boys like sticks.  Toren LOVES sticks!  Really: I love how he hugs the stick at the end of the clip.

Toren started jumping (both feet at the same time) earlier than most kids.  I tried to catch it on film but when I asked him to jump, he wouldn’t.  I finally decided to try reverse psychology on my 22-month old son.  I told him, “Don’t jump!”  Et voila: I’m not sure what this means.  A…

Debi usually gives Toren his bath at night, but I dry him off and put his diaper on afterward.  We usually play while I do that with me blowing on his belly and tickling him.  Some nights he laughs really hard.  I tried to capture it one night: