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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtF9G6SUB-0

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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKA9mFrzZo

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:

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The hike was 4.6 miles.

I shot a couple videos of some of the prettier parts of the hike:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-AwQbnySM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOM2NIBGFGE

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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uadpvmhUtDE

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:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aevvnY8gvo0

We’re not sure how this started, but we typically ask Toren what he did at daycare every day when we pick him up and he always responds the same way: by listing the names of some of the kids in his class: Mona (Ramona), Sammy, and Bobby.  We finally caught on video here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYEZqnAjWo0

We asked Toren to wash his hands after he was done eating one night.  He had a cup of water in front of him, so he improvised:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFEUvyskEU

We had a good time asking Toren questions one night over dinner.  Here are his answers:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc0vGv-V2wo

Toren’s a little young for some of the activity options at Busch Gardens, but that hasn’t stopped him.  In these clips he’s climbing one ropes and trying to get from one level to another.  It took him about 30 minutes to figure it out that day, but he eventually did and now he can do it most of the time:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nec9HPuMNlo

Here he is walking on a rope bridge:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8J7eUOdbOo

Toren has a funny way of saying Granmary, which is what Debi’s Mom, Rosemary, prefers to be called by her grandkids.  He adds a cute “ny-ny-ny” at the end.  It’s pretty adorable and he did it all by himself:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=toAi4DVqW6M