This was when Toren was cruising a lot. He also realized that he liked some sweets, at least liked them enough to allow us to feed them to him:
Here he’s eating a light jello-cheesecake I made that included some blueberries I picked (with my neighbor).
This is footage from right after the last video I posted. Toren had tired of walking back and forth between Debi and I, so I started playing with him and got some good laughs from him:
While not technically his very first steps, these were among his first unaided steps. Basically what happened… One night when I was watching Toren alone (Debi had a late class), I was sitting on the ground and set him a few feet away from me, facing me. I then let go and told him to walk to me. He did. I repeated it a few times, then showed Debi when she got home later that night. The footage below is from a couple of days after that. He wasn’t walking on his own yet, but he was starting to take more risks walking at this point:
Here’s another bike ride Toren and I went on:
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We didn’t go quite as far this time:
Total Distance: 10.36 km (6.4 mi)
Total Time: 51:34
Moving Time: 49:34
Average Speed: 12.17 km/h (7.6 mi/h)
Average Moving Speed: 12.54 km/h (7.8 mi/h)
Max Speed: 17.47 km/h (10.9 mi/h)
Min Elevation: -26 m (-86 ft)
Max Elevation: 1 m (5 ft)
Elevation Gain: 176 m (577 ft)
Max Grade: -5 %
Min Grade: -6 %
Recorded: Tue Jun 15 18:44:27 EDT 2010
Activity type: cycling
Debi and Toren went out to Utah at the end of April to attend a funeral. While out there, Toren picked up some knowledge of cars from his cousin, Ethan. His grandmary was kind enough to send some cars back:
For some reason I remain really impressed how quickly he picked up how to play with cars.
