Tag: Toren

Debi and I were talking over dinner one night about Toren’s development.  His language skills are coming along fine and he’s always been perfectly well-developed with his physical skills.  But Debi had noticed that he is particularly good at problem solving.  If he can’t get something or wants something, he’s pretty good at figuring out…

We’ve been trying to help Toren learn that he has more than one name.  He knows the other names – “Marx” and “Cragun” – but he still doesn’t seem to realize that they are names for him. We tried quizzing him one night to see if he would remember what his last name is.  Here’s…

Debi and I were in the kitchen cleaning up after dinner while Toren was sitting at the table.  While we chatted, probably about some issue one of us was having with our research, Toren spoke up.  Here’s the conversation: Toren: “See mommy!”  (“see” means “look”) Debi: “See what?” Toren, pointing to the water he just…

I didn’t get enough footage of Toren as a Jedi, but I did catch these two short clips of him as a Jedi at the Halloween fair at UT.  In the first clip he got to decorate a cupcake and then eat it, which he loved: In the second clip he’s just walking between activities:…

Here are a couple of additional clips Toren hiding in a nightstand and running in Debi’s shoes:

You have to love Craigslist!  We found a higher quality trampoline – though in disrepair – on Craigslist for $200.  I talked the owner down to $150.  It normally sells for $750.  Then, since I had to take it down (with my neighbor’s help), she gave it to us for $100.  Our total cost will…

On the rare occasion that I buy artichokes, we now have a ritual for eating them.  We lay out blankets in front of the TV, lay out the artichokes and various bowls, and have a little artichoke eating festival while we watch a video.  In the clip below we were watching Star Trek (the original…

This was a relatively short-lived interest.  It lasted about a week is all.  Here are two more clips of Toren playing in Debi’s shoes:

I thought Toren might like to watch a soccer game.  I took him to a game one night at UT.  He watched the game for maybe 30 seconds, then he wanted to run around.  The college students found him entertaining:

The following clips are from before Halloween.  Debi took Toren shopping one day and he found a light saber in the store.  He wasn’t about to leave the store without it, so Debi bought it for him.  It later became part of his costume.  Here are two clips of Toren with his new light saber.…