Ryan and Debi

Author: rcragun

  • Toren’s first parade – St. Pete Pride!

    One of the organizations with which I’m affiliated, Equality Florida, had an entry in the St. Petersburg Gay Pride Parade on Saturday.  They were looking for volunteers to march in the parade.  Since Toren had never been to a parade, I thought it might be fun to have the whole family march for equal rights.…

  • UT highlights my research

    My university did a little write up about one of the articles I published recently: It’s a nice summary of the paper and the picture isn’t half bad either.

  • Toren’s moving out

    Toren has, amazingly, accumulated so many toys (despite my best efforts) that we had to find a second toy box. We opted for this old filing box that I bought around 1998 for my files (yes, we’ve had it that long). While the box looks huge, it’s rather lightweight – the perfect size for Toren…

  • Toren’s favorite game

    Ever since he started walking with help, Toren’s favorite game has been to chase me around our table: Now that he walks on his own, he does this without any help.

  • Toren and his train

    Here’s some more footage of Toren showing off his moves with his alphabet train: He was getting quite mobile at this point.

  • chocolate frosting

    While Toren may not have made a mess with his birthday cake, a few days earlier he went after this cupcake with chocolate frosting: Maybe it was the cake… 🙁

  • cruising for dessert

    This was when Toren was cruising a lot. He also realized that he liked some sweets, at least liked them enough to allow us to feed them to him: Here he’s eating a light jello-cheesecake I made that included some blueberries I picked (with my neighbor).

  • playing with Dad

    This is footage from right after the last video I posted. Toren had tired of walking back and forth between Debi and I, so I started playing with him and got some good laughs from him:

  • one year photoshoot

    We tried to shoot some one year photos last weekend.  While we got a few good ones, it didn’t go that well.  Toren was still sick and cranky, so he didn’t want to participate and the temperature was so high that just standing in the shade you’d sweat, which didn’t do any good because the…

  • injuries and scarface

    Now that Toren is walking everywhere (when he does; he has wanted to be held a lot lately, probably because he’s been sick), he is more subject to injuries from falls.  After our most recent photoshoot (pictures coming soon), he grabbed the tripod, then tripped in the grass.  He sliced his cheek on the tripod…