Ryan and Debi & Toren

Author: rcragun

  • new recipe – spring vegetable risotto

    I occasionally try new recipes, when I can find the time.  I have a pretty good repository of favorite recipes that I make regularly (you can see most of them here).  I’d say 90% of the new recipes I try don’t make it past the Debi test, meaning Debi doesn’t eat the leftovers and I…

  • destructor-baby

    When Toren gets tired, toys lose their appeal. He throws them to the side. You can see that in this video:

  • Toren spasm

    While playing with toys, Toren will occasionally have weird spasms where he will kind of clench up and shake things. We caught one on film in this clip, though you can’t see it very well.

  • object permanence

    I came up with a little game to test whether or not Toren had developed object permanence:

  • first attempts at crawling

    This is an edited video of a couple of clips of Toren attempting to crawl. He’s much better at this now (army man style, not on his knees), but this was just as he was learning how:

  • Toren with a cold

    This is a clip of Toren at the height of his successive colds, which ended up being a sinus infection. It’s more sad than anything as you can see how hard it is for him to breath and can tell he just wasn’t feeling well:

  • I just hired Jesus…

    My neighbor’s name is Jesus; he’s from Cuba.  He’s doing some work on our house.  It’s not really news, but I wanted a funny post title on here that would grab attention.  Anyone else ever paid Jesus to do some work for them?

  • falling asleep on the job

    This is probably one of the funniest/cutest videos we’ve shot. Debi was carrying Toren around in the bjorn while she was working around the house. Toren loves this, but apparently it was too much for him this day – he crashed, in the bjorn, on the camera:

  • pincer grasp – take two

    This is another shot of Toren using his pincer grasp to feed himself. He’s an expert at this now, but early on he struggled with getting the food into his mouth. Oh, he also does some funky leg kick thing in the second half of the video. Not sure what that’s all about.

  • gimme the camera

    This is a shot of me teasing Toren with the camera. He really wants to get his hands on it. Perhaps we have a budding film maker on our hands: