Tag: Toren
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Toren’s version of reading
He only did this for a few weeks, but it was adorable when he did. We’d give him a coloring book and he’d tell us the story. This is a Star Wars coloring book and, in case you can’t tell, there are a lot of bad guys:
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visit to California – light house and artichokes
On the 13th we drove into San Francisco, crossed the Golden Gate, and stopped for lunch in Sausalito. We then went for a nice walk to the Point Bonita lighthouse. Toren carried his cousin’s Woody doll (from Toy Story) on his shoulders the whole way (I carried Toren most of the way, in effect carrying…
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visit to California – Stanford University
During our trip to Utah we took a side trip to California to visit my sister, Wendy, her husband, Mario, and their two kids, Ethan and Xander. Mario has a fellowship at Stanford for the next couple of years and they are living near there in Campbell, CA. We drove through the night on August…
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hiking from Monte Verde to the Highlands
I spent the previous evening playing video games with my brother Josh, some of his friends, and some nephews. Josh’s wife, Jessica, stuffed us with delicious food. I needed another hike just to work dinner off, so I put Toren in the pack again and headed out, hoping to find a route from Monte Verde…
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hike to Beaver Ponds
Toren has a new favorite animated kids show on PBS – Wild Kratts. It’s about two brothers who have adventures with different animals. In one episode they explore what beavers do. When we planned our trip to Utah and were going to be staying with my parents for a few days, I remembered that there…
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Toren’s on email… well, sort of
We spent a night in a hotel recently while I was presenting at a conference in Orlando. While I was away at the conference, Toren and Debi were back in our room getting ready to go to dinner. Toren found a piece of paper and was writing on it while Debi got ready. When Debi…
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not much of a scientist yet…
Toren seems fascinated with the different states of water. He knows that ice melts and turns into liquid water. But he’s still trying to figure out what happens when water evaporates. Debi explained it to him one day, and a few days later was quizzing him about it. She asked him, “Toren, when water evaporates,…
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future interior decorator… for the Addams Family?
Debi was reading Toren a story tonight about a boy who grows up and gets a house of his own, moving out of his parents’ house. Debi mentioned to Toren that he would one day grow up and move out, getting a place of his own. Toren looked at her and said, “Really?” Debi nodded…
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how a toddler sees the world
We were watching the opening ceremony of the London Olympics with Toren and we got to the part with Rowan Atkinson (a.k.a. Mr. Bean). There is a brief dream sequence where he imagines he is running with the other men in Chariots of Fire along the beach: As the camera pulled back to reveal a…
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Toren math
Toren was counting on his fingers the other night with Debi’s help. He can get to five quite well as he has five fingers. He counted all the fingers on his right hand, then all the fingers on his left hand, reaching five each time. When he was done, Debi said, “And five plus five…