Ryan and Debi & Toren

Author: rcragun

  • England Trip – Day 6

    I drug Steve out to do a little more Sociology-related fieldwork during this day in London – we made the obligatory pilgrimage to the burial place of Karl Marx, Toren’s namesake, at Highgate Cemetery.  Unknown to me before we arrived, there are a number of other famous people buried in the cemetery, including: Douglas Adams…

  • Toren tricks

    Finally, a video that shows off what our developing baby can now do. He rolls from his stomach to his back almost instantly. He can put his feet in his mouth (though he doesn’t much anymore). And he’s been able to spit out his binkie since pretty much day one (the launches in this clip…

  • England Trip – Day 5

    Given that this was a work trip, we started the day out properly – we went to a church service so I could do a bit of ethnographic field work.  I had big plans for visiting a variety of different churches to get a sense of the variety within the Church of England.  But what…

  • Toren, Lord of the Bowl

    Toren’s really taken to imitating us. Every time he sees us drink from a glass he wants to drink from a glass as well. I’m not sure where he got this behavior though: Maybe Debi drinks from bowls when I’m not around… 😉

  • England Trip – Day 4

    With just a couple days to see London, Steve and I tried to pack a lot in. So, even though we were up late (until about 2:00 am as I didn’t get to London until pretty late), we got up fairly early. We followed a self-guided walking tour I found here to see the London…

  • a skeleton in the Cragun closet

    Yeah, so, it’s a month and a half since Debi and Toren wore this, but here’s a clip of Debi and Toren dancing in their Halloween costumes:

  • England Trip – Day 3

    This was the day of the conference.  The conference was the inaugural conference of the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network, an organization primarily made up of scholars interested in the non-religious.  The organizers of the conference were kind enough to invite me to give one of three keynote presentations.  The other two keynote speakers, David…

  • exersaucering

    I gave props to the inventor of the exersaucer earlier, but I have to show how enthralled Toren is by his exersaucer: He doesn’t always love his exersaucer, but some days he’ll spend 45 minutes to an hour playing in there.

  • coughing and grunting for attention

    This video shows another of Toren’s phases – coughing for attention. For about a month, Toren would fake cough to get our attention. He must have realized that we paid very close attention to him when he was really coughing, so he started fake coughing to get our attention. This clip also shows his new…

  • England Trip – day 2

    I arrived at Gatwick airport around 8:00 am, relatively unrested (thanks to my talkative neighbor).  I quickly made my way through customs, picked up my bag, exchanged some currency, then found the stop for the direct bus to Oxford.  I missed a bus by about 15 minutes, which meant I had to wait another 45…