Category: Toren

I’m not sure whether I should be proud of the fact that Toren loves peas this much, or embarrassed that I let Toren eat his peas this way:

While Debi was gone, I found myself bribing Toren on occasion with cookies.  While I’m sure that’s not shocking to most parents, and I am disappointed in myself, the part that cracks me up is just how well Toren behaves in order to get cookies.  Here’s a clip of him just after he finished a…

I’m guessing most toddlers run like this, but I get a kick out of how Toren runs: He flails his arms in strange ways.  I finally caught it on film while at the WalMart in Hilton Head:

During the one nice day we had in Hilton Head I shot this short clip of Toren and Debi running around on the beach.  This is right by the famous lighthouse:

Toren has recently taken an interest in flowers.  We’ll be out in the yard playing (in our weeds; we don’t have much grass) and Toren will stop to pick flowers.  It’s pretty funny:

I took Toren back to the children’s play area at the mall for some play time a few weeks back and shot a little footage of him playing.  It was early and no one else was there, which meant he had the entire play area to himself:

Toren received a kids computer for Christmas from his Grandmary and Grangary.  While he doesn’t play with it non-stop, he does go through phases when he’ll play with it a lot.  He went through about a week at the beginning of March where that was all he wanted to do, as shown in these two…

Ever since Toren learned how to say “No,” it’s been his favorite word, by far.  I finally caught him saying it on camera while he was in the tub:

As I was getting Toren ready to go outside one day, Debi decided to snap some photos as he was being very cute.  Initially we were trying to get his shoes on, then he stole mine: