Tag: Toren
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if you’re parents won’t give you a sibling…
Toren has talked about a sibling a lot lately. Whenever he brings it up, we immediately emphasize the fact that he wouldn’t get as much of our attention and would have to share all of his toys and possibly even his room with a sibling. So far, he hasn’t been dissuaded by those facts. The…
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big boy nets at Busch Gardens
We found some new nets for Toren to climb at Busch Gardens:
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Toren hunting for candy
The Easter Bunny visited our house in early April and left Toren a ton of candy:
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Toren in a bouncy house
We went to a birthday party with a bouncy house. Toren was one of the younger kids there but he wasn’t afraid in the bouncy house. Here he is pulling off one of his favorite tricks:
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he was born that way
Toren was doing some art work tonight and decided to draw pictures of his friend monster. As he drew, he turned to Debi and said, “My friend monster is kind of ugly.” Debi asked him, “How come?” Toren replied, “He has funny eyes. (pause) He was born that way.”
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Toren popping packing bubbles
One of Toren’s favorite activities is to pop the air bubbles that come in our packages. Here he is with a particularly long chain of bubbles:
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teaching Toren poker
While Debi was on a trip one weekend I started teaching Toren poker. He didn’t really get it, but it was fun:
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Toren playing computer games
He still doesn’t do this very often, but he seems to be growing more and more interested in computer games:
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Disney = nightmares
We’ve let Toren watch a lot of movies that could reasonably lead to nightmares for a 3 year-old: all of the X-Men, The Lord of the Rings series, all of the Harry Potter movies, every superhero movie you can think of (including the dark Batman series), etc. Since we let him start watching those movies,…
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Yeah, we’re good geek parents
Toren wanted to watch an episode of Star Trek one night and we didn’t have enough time before his bedtime, so we told him no. Here’s his response: