Ryan, Debi, and Toren Cragun's Blog

scissors + paper =

He'll sit and cut paper into tiny pieces literally for 30 minutes to an hour at a time.

You bet.  Our monkey climbs gorillas all the time:

"Mom, I got these two. Go get another one."

Since we have a season pass to Busch Gardens and there is so much to do there, we make pretty good use of our passes.  We’re probably their worst customers, though, since we go almost weekly but never buy anything.  Oh well, here’s a little free advertising for them:

"Come to Busch Gardens. They have lions and Torens!"

Toren has remarkable eyesight (like his Dad).  He’s able to spot spider webs from very far away (he really likes spider webs) and can see lots of other things Debi and I don’t notice or can’t see it.  Typically, when he sees something new he says, “I see something.”

He has also begun to equate playing with fun.  This has a particularly guilt-inducing effect on Debi and I as he regularly says now to us, “Mom, Dad, come have fun with me.” when we aren’t playing with him.

Apparently Toren has heard us say, “Here’s the deal, Toren.” too many times.  Now, when we tell him what we’re going to do or he does like a request we make he says, “That’s not the deal.”