Category: Toren

I know a lot of the videos I post on here are kind of lame, but our parents and family enjoy them and they don’t get to see Toren very often, so they are mostly for them. However, this video is a good one. Some mystical forces of nature must have aligned just right on…

I discussed this in an earlier post, but here’s footage of Toren eating his first “solid” food: As you can see, the food is far from “solid”.  It’s basically colored water.  As naive and anal parents, we followed the instructions on the rice cereal box exactly and what you see in the video is the…

Prior to trying solid food the first time, we put Toren in his highchair (another gift from our very generous friends) to let him get used to it.  He seemed to enjoy himself: He also proceeded to produce copious spit bubbles.  And I couldn’t help but think that he looked like a baby paratrooper with…

We sold our old stillshot camera (not our nice one, even though it was pretty nice) and bought a smaller, very portable camera (a Nikon).  It doesn’t take the best pictures (very high resolution, but a bit grainy and the color isn’t great), but it is small and it has the ability to record high-definition…

We’re starting to see that Toren goes through phases of development.  We were really excited to see him playing with his feet, but it seems as though that was really just a phase.  This video shows the pretty remarkable dexterity he had/has with his feet as he uses them to play with rings: He doesn’t…

We swaddled Toren when he slept until the end of September.  Eventually it just seemed like the swaddling was doing more harm than good:

Toren’s got the whole food thing figured out:

Not my best photo, but this is still pretty freaking awesome!

How do you keep a child who can’t sit up very long on his own but wants to play with all sorts of toys and then throw them away out of his reach entertained for more than 2 minutes without constantly monitoring him? This is Debi’s solution: Bumbo + Boppie = toy heaven Quite genius,…