We’re learning that lots of kids Toren’s age and even older don’t like movies that are even a little scary or violent. Toren, on the other hand, loves them. The more violent the better!?! (Should we be worried?) He has a shirt and pajamas that we got from someone else that have Spiderman on them. So, we taught him who Spiderman is. Then he wanted to watch the Spiderman movies, so we did. Now he runs around pretending to shoot webs out of his wrists and tries to climb up everything. I haven’t filmed him shooting the webs yet, but here he is being Spiderman in our garage on our ladder:
Now that we have a trampoline, Toren has really taken to jumping. He has even figured out how to jump and land on his bottom. However, he doesn’t just do it on the trampoline. Here he is jumping on our couch and landing on his bum:
Toren and I went on a hike on Thanksgiving to a nature preserve here in Tampa called Cypress Creek Preserve. Parts of the hike were really pretty. Parts were less so. Here’s our route:
Toren and I often race – whether it’s on foot or him on his bike and me on foot (to catch him, of course). Whenever he is ahead of me he’ll say, “My winning!” (i.e., “I’m winning.” He hasn’t worked out the difference between “me” and “I” yet.). Here he is “winning” on his bike:
Our neighbor bought Toren a really cool toy set that included a truck, a motorcycle, and a four wheeler. Toren really wanted to ride the four-wheeler, even though it is just a toy. So he improvised: