Tag: Toren

Thanks to the “things-to-do” feature of the St. Pete Times, Toren and I made our way out to Treasure Island Beach on November 20th to see sand sculptures. I had to hold Toren tightly while we looked at the sculptures as his favorite thing to do in the sand is destroy stuff, which he later…

Another word Toren has learned is “bubbles.”  He says it regularly.  In fact, just the other night he said “bubbles” then ran into the bathroom and opened the close where we keep them.  He loves to run around popping the bubbles, and gets to do this at daycare as well, which is what the video…

Ever since our trip to Europe over the summer, Toren has loved oatmeal (Rosemary, his grandma, brought some on the trip).  He has it almost every morning and asks for it specifically (he can say “oatmeal”).  I tried to film him using his spoon to eat his oatmeal, but as soon as I started filming…

The St. Petersburg Times has a great feature every day called “things-to-do”.  I didn’t follow it closely before Toren, but now I look pretty closely and have found a couple of winning ideas.  After the mall and Toren’s nap, I took him to Largo Central Park to ride the free mini-train, the Largo Central Railroad.…

Debi had an early morning flight for a conference.  That resulted in Toren getting up early.  It was the weekend and a little chilly outside (you know, maybe in the 60s).  So, what to do?  Well, since I’m cheap, I figured I could take him to a kids’ play area in the local mall.  It’s…

Toren is getting more and more mobile and more daring. Over the last month and a half he started diving on pillows on his bed and on ours. Since all of our floors are tile, this is pretty risky. If he falls, it won’t be pretty. So, we compromised. He wants to dive on pillows,…

Toren still doesn’t like getting dropped off at daycare.  Most days he cries, but he calms down almost immediately once we leave.  But when we pick him up, it’s a different story.  Ever since he could, he runs to us: He does this every day! It’s heartwarming to know your child wants to be with…

This is a short video clip of Toren playing in one of the kitchen cupboards.  This one is particularly funny at the 14 second mark as I’m telling Toren he needs to be careful because the last time he played with the blender he fell on it and cut open his lip.  Watch Toren’s response:

Here are the remaining video clips of Toren playing in the fountains at the zoo: The little girl in this one wanted to play with Toren, but he kept running away and even tried to push here away a few times:

I’ve shown clips of Toren playing in the fountains at the zoo before. I’m back with some more. Now that he is a bit older and even more mobile, he really gets around in these fountains: While I didn’t capture it on film, he did have a tumble while running around in the fountains. He…