Tag: Toren
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peek-a-boo
Sometimes I surprise myself by how slow I am to realize things… I was sitting at my desk with Toren while Debi was at a doctor’s appointment. Toren was kind of happy so we were playing. I’m not all that well-schooled on games to play with babies, but I do know peek-a-boo (who doesn’t?). So,…
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Toren’s first dedicated artwork
We just returned from a trip to Utah. We spent just over a week there. I already posted a few photos from some of the activities: pool party, Cragun family photoshoot, etc. I also did some work, interviewing people for an upcoming book chapter. I went hiking (will post about it soon) and then spent…
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survey fail
I received this fun little piece of mail the other day: If you click on it you’ll see that it says, “Dear Toren Cragun; WE VALUE YOUR OPINION.” It then proceeds to ask him to fill out a survey evaluating his recent doctor’s visit. I considered being a bit snarky and sending back the survey…
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Toren tag with nieces and nephews
I’m never 100% sure, but I think my parents now have 23 grandkids. My siblings are kind of split into older ones and younger ones (my brother Mark, who is just older than I am, is the transitional sibling). My older siblings all have finished having kids and their kids are now either in their…
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swimsuit edition
Thursday night my family had a pool party at my brother Danny’s house in Ogden. We have a swimsuit for Toren, even though he’s too young to swim at this point. But it was cute enough that we figured we should get some photos of him in it. Here’s one with all three of us…
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Toren meets Grandma and Grandpa Cragun
It took until he was two months old, but Toren finally got to meet his Grandma and Grandpa Cragun:
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Toren flies first class
We were worried that Toren wouldn’t enjoy flying to Utah. While we’re usually pretty tolerant of crying kids on planes, we didn’t want to be “those” people with the really whiny, crying kid. So, we decided we’d spoil Toren and let him sleep on us as much as possible, hoping it would keep him happy. …
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jumper
Toren likes to kick. He’s wiggly and kicks a lot. So, we thought we’d try putting him in the Johnny Jumper again: We tried a couple times before, but he was even smaller then and didn’t like it at all. This time, he was still too small, but was okay in it for about 10…
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Life’s Good!
If you’re following the blog closely you’ll note that I said yesterday we usually swaddle Toren to put him down to sleep. With his arms out, he usually wakes himself up. That is, generally, true. But that is also not the way Toren thinks about it. We’ve noticed a pattern: Whenever I’m holding him to…
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baby darth
We swaddle Toren most of the time when we put him down to sleep. It seems to really keep him calm. If we don’t, he has a tendency to flail his arms and legs, waking himself up. I walked into his room the other day to find him like this: My Mom has already told…