Its over 6 months since it was published, but apparently I was mentioned in a news story in the Guardian, a prominent UK newspaper. Yeah for me!

At some point right around the beginning of January Toren decided that he did not want to be spoon fed any more. This attempt to feed him basically sealed the deal:

Since this incident, we’ve basically let him feed himself solid foods (he’s been pretty good at it for a while).

This is another clip of Debi bouncing a ball on Toren’s head to get him to laugh. We had friends over on New Year’s Eve and told them about this. They had to see it for themselves and are the ones you can hear laughing in the background.

We regularly have green beans as a vegetable accompaniment to dinner. Debi let Toren suck on a bean one night and was lucky to get it back:

Toren’s grandmother, Rosemary, bought him a walker when she was last here. Toren has liked sitting in it since he received it, but it wasn’t until about the end of December that he realized he could move in it. Here is some footage of him realizing he can move in the walker: