Tag: Toren

We found a new ride at Busch Gardens – motorcycles.  Toren dug it:

I used to love to run around on rocks.  Jumping from rock to rock was a blast and I would do it any chance I got.  I still find it enjoyable, but less so now that I have a bad knee.  Toren appears to have inherited this interest.  Here he is playing on rocks while…

I finally pulled some more videos off my phone.  Here’s one of Toren during his costume parade at his daycare.  Since his daycare is at a hospital, the kids put on their costumes and parade through the hospital where the nurses give them candy:

To date we have not left Toren anywhere, locked him in a car, locked him in our house, left him alone by a pool, or, generally, done much to put him in harm’s way.  Well, there was the rather crazy bike ride through an alligator infested swamp.  And the hiking misadventure in Oregon when he…

Toren has recently taken to repeating things we say, even if he doesn’t know what they mean.  As I was headed off to work one day, Debi said, “Bye, Cutie.”  (That’s her “pet” name for me.) Toren then looked up at me with a big smile on his face and said, “Bye, Cutie.”

Not the best quality picture, but I love his expression in this one:

Toren loves stickers.  He is also inventive and creative.  He smartly asked: Why do stickers have to go on paper?  Why can’t they go on, say, your belly? Apparently they can go on your belly!

I walked into the office one day and found Toren like this:

A friend gave us some clothes for Toren.  In with the other clothes we found some bear claw slippers, which Toren loved:

Toren picked out his own outfit one day.  It consisted of a tank top, shorts, and a winter hat: