Category: Toren

Debi and I were eying our plump baby one day and thought, “Hmmm…. That kid needs to lose some weight.” So, we started him on an intense exercise regimen that begins with pull-ups every morning: (Disclaimer: We just do this for fun; we’re not trying to get Toren to lose weight! Just in case anyone…

This is another video of Toren, but it’s very quick. I tried to capture him doing one of the weird things he did for just a short while – chewing on Debi’s chin. You have to look close at the very beginning of the video, but he’s chewing/sucking on Debi’s chin: We still don’t know…

I finally filled up another video tape with footage of Toren and transferred it all to my computer. So, my loyal blog readers, over the next couple of weeks you’ll get to see the latest batch of Toren videos. Today’s video is from February (yep, that’s how long the latest tape lasted; it seems as…

Okay, this is pretty much overkill on video, but I figured I’d post these for the hard core Toren lovers out there (i.e., his grandparents), since it’s highly unlikely anyone else will sit and watch 25 minutes of Toren.  Here are three clips of Toren “opening” presents (really Toren playing with presents after Debi opened…

We had some cans of Sprite left over from Toren’s birthday party.  I didn’t think too much about simply leaving them out on the floor as we hadn’t decided what to do with them yet.  Over the last couple of days, Toren found the box, pulled out a few cans, and has spent a little…

Apparently the “thing to do” at a first birthday party is to give your kid some of the cake and let him/her just go at it, smearing it all over him/herself.  I’ve been cued in to this tradition by various friends with kids who all have the pictures to prove to me this is, in…

We had a dozen or so friends come over for Toren’s first birthday on Saturday.  There was only one child who is close to Toren’s age.  The rest were our friends.  Here’s the invite I put together for the party via a very cool evite alternative called pingg.com (strongly recommend it over evite.com): We basically…

So, I didn’t write these down at the doctor’s office yesterday, but I’m pretty sure their accurate (I’m positive on the weight, because I was paying close attention on that one): height – 30.5 inches (60th percentile) weight – 22lbs 4 oz. (50th percentile) head circumference – 18.5 inches (75th percentile) In other words, Toren…

I had to replace the motherboard on my computer (bad ethernet port, but still under warranty; 2 weeks without my desktop, but worth it).  While my computer was out of commission, the little cubby where my computer goes was empty.  In a never-ending bid to find awful ways to torment Toren, I put him inside…

Yep, Debi and I did it!  We kept Toren alive for a whole year!  Hooray for us!  Here’s a picture for you to enjoy: He has his 1 year checkup Thursday, so I’ll have stats on height/weight then.  I’m also compiling some statistics.  Here’s a sampler: Total posts on the blog about Toren since he…