Ryan and Debi

Author: rcragun

  • Europe Trip – day 2 – arrive in Paris

    Once we boarded our 8 hour flight and were settled in, I napped a little, as did Toren, but Debi has found that she can’t sleep when Toren is on her lap, so she didn’t sleep at all.  As a result, when we arrived she was exhausted.  We had a little scare once we arrived…

  • Europe Trip – day 1 – leave Tampa

    Debi’s parents are quite frugal, but they do spend money on one particular luxury – travel.  Every few years, Debi’s mother, Rosemary, plans a large trip for the entire family.  Rosemary’s countless hours of meticulous planning finally came to fruition starting on July 24th, when we left Tampa and flew to Detroit, then to Paris,…

  • The Zoo

    Because we’re workaholics yet want to spend time with Toren, we’ve worked out our weekends so Debi has Toren in the morning until 1:00 while I work and then I have him from 1:00 until he’s ready to go to bed around 8:00.  That’s usually when I take him hiking or biking.  To add a…

  • Toren’s a little advanced for his age

    I let Toren play in the passenger seat of the rental car while we were in Oregon to keep him busy while I got the backpack ready.  He loved it and remembered it, so I let him play in the passenger seat in my car one day.  Debi went a step further and let him…

  • Toren’s picked up body modding

    So I mentioned that we’re well on our way to getting our money’s worth out of the annual zoo pass we bought.  During one of those visits, the staff at the zoo was handing out rub on tattoos.  Here’s Toren showing off his tat’: Hardcore, huh?

  • Toren loses a fight…

    … to cool whip.  Debi let him try it while we were eating pancakes with strawberries the other day.  He liked it enough to rub it all over his face, and then into his eyes, at which point he realized the cool whip had the ability to make him cry: He didn’t like cool whip…

  • RE: Joys of Muslim Women – more debunking

    Another relative (not my uncle this time), sent me the email below, but (I think smartly) asked me if it was accurate.  My response follows the email: This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim. This is not heresay, and it will scare the life out of you. Make sure you read…

  • Wow!

    I had no idea… 🙁

  • One more positive from the World Cup

    Toren, whether he wanted to or not, got to watch a lot of World Cup soccer (as that’s pretty much all I did in my free time during June and July). You can see him sitting on his improvised soccer watching seat in this photo: Turns out those hours and hours of exposure to soccer…

  • Toren helping with laundry

    While he doesn’t really show it that well in this video, Toren’s typical way of “helping” with the laundry is to pull everything off the couch or chair as quickly as possible and throw it on the floor: