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I’m not sure at what age I started eating artichokes, but I know Debi didn’t have one until we were married.  Toren’s a bit luckier.  At 17 months he had his first artichoke.  Here he is munching on his 3rd or 4th: He knows how to dip them and usually orients them correctly (he doesn’t…

Toren and I have spent quite a bit of time in Walmart over the last month while I’ve had my car serviced, then had the tires looked at (I had one going flat slowly), and finally a tire replaced.  While we’re there, I basically let Toren play with the toys – at least the toys…

Toren seemed a bit old and big for his highchair a couple months back, so we came up with a different idea: his own table. $20.00 at Ikea and Toren was set. He eats there, but he also colors at his table and generally plays there. Here he is playing with his markers on his…

For a few months now, Toren has been helping with the dishes.  A testament to social learning theory, Toren saw us putting detergent packs in our dishwasher.  So, one day he decided to do it.  And he did it really well.  He opened the cupboard, got out a single packet, put it in the right…

While I was watching Toren one Sunday afternoon I thought it might be fun to make sugar cookies with him and use cookie cutters to turn them into holiday cookies.  I remember doing this when I was growing up and thought it was fun. Toren seemed interested when I got the cookie cutters out.  He…

Toren loves to be outside.  He particularly loves finding sticks and then hitting stuff with them (Debi recently trained him to not hit our cars).  Here he is hitting the ground:

Toren is just too cute not to take pictures of these days.  Here he is eating cheerios one morning: