Author: rcragun
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I’ve fallen and I can’t get up
This is a shot of Toren in that awkward stage where he is becoming mobile, but not enough to actually maneuver well:
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Debi’s muscles
Debi walked into the office today while I was holding Toren. She was wearing a tanktop (yea Florida weather!) and I noted that I could see her ribs. I’ve been telling her that she needs to gain weight (yep, that’s a man telling a woman she needs to gain weight). She proceeded to try to…
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speed eater
Okay, I have to admit I don’t know if this is unique or even if this is a good thing or bad thing, but Toren can devour a 2.5 oz tub of baby food lightning fast: Parents out there, is this normal? I don’t think he has suffered any ill effects from this, but it…
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wrist thing and responding to name
Toren’s quirks are funny (okay, that seems redundant, to call a “quirk” funny when quirky can mean funny… I digress). He was coughing for attention for a while. Now, he does this funky thing with his wrist where he’ll grab something and pump his wrist up and down. I think it started when he was…
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England Trip – Day 9
Aside from nearly missing my flight, not much interesting happened here. I arrived at Gatwick a bit later than I had hoped, about 1 hour and 45 minutes before my flight. The line to check in at US Airways was quite long, but I met a guy in the line who was on the same…
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homemade carrots
Every Gerber “solid” food we’ve given Toren he has liked: carrots, green beans, peas, applesauce, squash, and sweet potatoes. But when we tried to make our own, Toren wasn’t interested: Granted, we probably didn’t do a great job preparing the carrots, but Toren’s ability to discriminate between home made food and prepared food is a…
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England Trip – Day 8
This was our last day of touring around London. As we had visited all of the major attractions that we really wanted to see in the previous days, we opted for two less visited attractions. We started off the day with a visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. For those who don’t know, this…
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Toren and the apple
I’ve mentioned several times now that Toren is into imitating what we do. He tried a banana this way, then caught Debi eating an apple one morning and wanted to do that, too: If you pay close attention you’ll be privy to Debi and me discussing Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, which, Debi correctly points…
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England Trip – Day 7
We were surprised at how many things we had been able to fit in at this point. If you’ve been reading these posts chronologically, you’ll know that we skipped two attractions for various reasons. This was our make up day. We started out with a visit to Abbey Road, the recording studio made famous by…
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shark boy
Toren’s initially tepid response to “solid” food has been replaced with his new response – he eats like a shark, in huge gulps. And when the food doesn’t arrive fast enough, he’ll chomp on whatever else is around (watch the end of the video):