Author: rcragun
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Historic Spanish Point
Another adventure over the holidays took us to Historic Spanish Point in Sarasota, which was actually quite nice. I took a few pictures, but mostly just took everything in and carried Toren around as the tour started right during his nap time. Toren wasn’t all that interested in most of the tour, but found other…
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Weeki Wachee
Debi’s mother and brother came to visit us over the holidays and we decided to go on some adventures. Included on the itinerary was Weeki Wachee State Park, which is most famous for its mermaids. It was, undoubtedly, an interesting experience. The park is rather rundown and definitely not of the caliber of either an…
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booty time?
We don’t know where he picked it up – we think daycare – but Toren has been saying the word “booty” nonstop for the last month. Everything is “booty-this” or “booty-that.” When we ask him what “booty” means he says “bum,” but he never uses it in that context. So, he’ll say things like, “booty…
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catching bugs
Debi took Toren to Busch Gardens in November while I was away at a conference and he sat on Santa’s lap. At that time, he told Santa he wanted two things for Christmas: a bug catcher net and a robot. So, planning ahead, I bought him a bug catching net and Debi bought him Iron…
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Toren at the top of the nets
I’ve filmed Toren climbing the nets a bunch of times at Busch Gardens. But this time I convinced him to climb to the top of the nets:
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Toren stuck in toybox
Toren called for us one day because he said he was stuck in his toybox. He wasn’t; he just thought he was being funny, until he realized he might be breaking his toys:
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Toren singing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Toren learned a bunch of Christmas songs at his daycare this year for a performance (that he, unfortunately, missed). Even so, he’s been breaking out in song every so often. He hasn’t let us record him singing, but Debi caught the audio one night in the car:
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bouncy ball + office = fun
We stopped by my office one weekend for lunch before going to a show. Toren found a bouncy ball and began throwing it around and then diving after it. It was kind of funny to watch:
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“Puny God”
My new favorite line from a movie is from the The Avengers. There is a scene during the final battle when Loki yells at The Hulk, telling The Hulk that he is beneath him because Loki is a god. The Hulk then grabs Loki by the leg and smashes him repeatedly into the floor like…
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Manatee Viewing Center
TECO, our local electric company, put some money into a nice Manatee Viewing Center by one of their power plants and it is free to visit. I took Toren down for a visit in November. Here he is walking along a boardwalk: And here are some of the thousands of crabs that come out during…