Category: Toren

  • How many does it take before permanent damage is done?

    On the 21st it was my turn to pick up Toren from daycare (we negotiate it every day; that day I volunteered).  As I walked up to the door to his classroom, I looked through the glass window and saw Toren sitting on top of one of the toy shelves with another child in the…

  • totally inappropriate post

    So, er, um… Occasionally, when I hug Debi, particularly when I hug her in front of Toren, I’ll grab her bum.  Yep, that’s right.  I do.  I’m not embarrassed to admit it! And sometimes I’ll even give her bum a nice little love tap.  Yep, you know you’re jealous! I gave Debi one of my…

  • Toren is talking

    We were a bit concerned a couple of months ago that Toren wasn’t saying many words.  He knew a few words, but he rarely used them and he didn’t seem to be picking up new words very quickly.  That appears to finally be changing.  He is now picking up new words every day.  And, on…

  • Toren the Wizard

    GIMP is da bomb!

  • ladders and couches

    Toren is getting increasingly fast and nimble.  The other day I was outside raking leaves while Debi was doing laundry in the garage.  Toren was in the garage with her.  She turned her back on Toren for just a few seconds and when she turned back around he had climbed to the top of our…

  • they’re stuck

    Yesterday morning, while I was getting my breakfast and cleaning up the dishes, I looked out the window into our backyard and noticed something strange.  It took me a second to realize what I was seeing, but then it turned to face me and I saw one of these: Then, when I looked again, there…

  • more flower picking

    As I noted in a previous post, Toren has taken an interest in flowers.  Here he wandered into one of our neighbor’s yards to pick some wildflowers:

  • Toren marching

    Occasionally Toren will march.  His march is a little strange as it primarily consists of flicking his right leg out really far, but not his left.  I caught it on video one day while on a walk:

  • Toren and the caterpillar

    On a walk one day Toren spotted a caterpillar crawling across the sidewalk.  We stopped to let Toren see it:

  • Toren and garlic salt

    There is a reason Toren loves peas – garlic salt.  There is a little bit of scientific evidence that kids like foods that their mothers ate while they were in the womb, and Debi ate a lot of garlic salt (she had weird cravings for it).  So, I guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised…