Tag: Toren

It’s still cute when he does this:

… but I hope Toren considers other professions: For all those out there wondering why we are allowed to have a child if we let him do stuff like this, let me ease your mind a bit.  I was holding Toren in the bathroom one day while he wiggled and squirmed to find something with…

In preparation for an upcoming trip, we needed to get Toren a passport.  It’s actually kind of complicated for a kid, but we managed.  I just wish my passport photo was this cute:

I documented the decision to call our son Toren in this post from March 4th, 2009.  On June 13th I traced the etymology of the name “Toren Marx” the best I could in this post.  Well, as it turns out, we’re going to have to revise at least part of that etymology and own up…

While this was taken before the recent fever incident, he is back to being happy and smiling at us:

Nine months without any serious illnesses came to a close Monday. Taking Toren into daycare on Monday, Debi noticed he was feeling hot. She mentioned it to the workers at Toren’s daycare and they said they would monitor it. Monitor it they did… When he woke up from his nap he had a temperature of…

I have more photos and videos coming, but a couple of incidents have stuck out lately that I thought were worth writing down. First, the sentimental one. Debi has class late on Wednesday, which makes that my night to put Toren down. He usually eats solid foods around 6:00 then has his bottle (or Debi…

Toren has had a good pincer grasp for a while. Apparently he knew he did as he stopped wanting to be spoon fed at around 7 months and instead insisted on feeding himself, as he attempts in this video:

I’ve posted photos and video of Toren hating his Johnny Jumper earlier on here.  Well, it took a while, but now he likes it: