The last video was a hilariously bizarre event. This video shows what I was trying to capture: the many faces Toren makes while pooping:

Toren makes funny faces when he poops.  So, I tried to film him pooping to catch some of those funny faces on film.  As I did so one day, I got this:

I probably should have warned you that you shouldn’t watch this while eating or drinking anything as there is a good chance you’ll spit it all over your computer monitor. We’ve watched it probably 50 times already and still laugh every time.

Toren has mostly slept through the night the last three nights!  He goes down at 8:00 and wakes up around 5:30 or 6:00.  After she feeds him, Debi will then typically bring him back to our bad for a short nap after that.  This morning she brought him into our bed so quietly that I didn’t even wake up… Until… Toren roared!

I’m guessing he was probably just clearing his throat (he’s had a constant cold since starting daycare), but it sounded like a roar and it woke me up to find him in our bed.   Since it was about the time I wake up anyway (around 6:30), I started playing with him.  In the course of our playing together, I said to him while he was laying next to Debi, “Are you in my bed?”  His response, he turned so his feet were facing me and proceeded to kick me in the face!

Yeah, whose bed is it now?!?

On the milestones front, he still isn’t crawling crawling, but he is now doing an army crawl that allows him to move forward fairly well.

I was riding our exercise bike the other night while Toren played on the floor.  At some point I looked down and said to myself, “He is sooo tiny!”  I asked Debi to grab the camera so I could snap this photo:

tiny baby Toren

In case you missed it, President Obama came to my university, University of Tampa, last week.  He spoke mostly about the funding for high speed rail, but then took questions from the audience.

Faculty at my University were reserved a certain number of seats, we just had to ask for a ticket.  I asked for a ticket:

The Secret Service shut down a number of streets around my university and we were told that certain faculty parking lots would be blocked off.  So, I decided to ride my bike into work (takes about 20 minutes; I should do it more often, but I’m too lazy).  Anyway, there was a very long line to get into the gym where the Town Hall Meeting was to be held.  Since I had a ticket, I didn’t think getting in would be an issue.  Um, yeah, I was wrong.  Apparently some of the students at UT decided that, rather than wait in line the day before (there were not enough for all of them), they would simply photocopy tickets.  As a result, about 400 people were turned away from the event, despite having valid tickets.  I was one of them.

I ended up watching the meeting in one of the rooms on campus where they were broadcasting it live.  I guess it’s a good thing I went to see him when he was campaigning here in Tampa; now I don’t feel too bad for missing this event.