Ryan and Debi

Category: Toren

  • chomp chomp

    Toren wanted me to film him chomping at a restaurant one day:

  • bubble wrap party

    One of Toren’s favorite activities is to pop bubble wrap.  Here’s a clip of him doing some popping, helped by Debi when he can’t quite finish it off:

  • Toren running up a slide

    I took Toren to the park one day and he showed off his ability to run up the slide:

  • Monster Toren

    Toren came up with a monster costume one night and wanted us to film him flapping his monster wings:

  • Alafia River Corridor hike

    We tried out another new hike from the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s website: the Alafia River Corridor.  This was one of the first hikes we’ve done here in Florida where I felt like I was really out in the middle of nowhere.  From the parking lot to the wider trail by the train tracks…

  • Weedon Island Preserve

    Having spent far too much time at Busch Gardens over the last few months, I decided to do some hiking with Toren on Sundays instead.  Last weekend we visited Weedon Island Preserve, just across the bay in St. Petersburg.  Toren wasn’t interested in hiking and rode in the backpack the whole time, but he seemed…

  • water breath

    Debi was complaining about my coffee breath this morning in front of Toren.  Toren thought it was funny, but he was clearly paying attention.  Just after Debi said that I have coffee breath, Toren told her, “I don’t drink coffee so I don’t have coffee breath.  I have water breath.”

  • Toren’s latest tool for tricks

    Toren’s grandmother bought him a Spiderman scooter for Christmas.  He played with it a lot, and even started to say he was doing “tricks” on it (great – broken bones, here we come).  His Uncle Steve filmed his initial foray on it while I was cooking:

  • 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…

  • 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…