Category: Toren

Reaching another developmental milestone that is also likely tied to evolutionary adaptation, Toren started smiling at around 7 weeks. I didn’t find a great reference for this, but the suggestion is that, just as the parents are getting so sleep-deprived and annoyed with their child to the point that they regret their decision, their newborn…

Toren has a Johny Jumper (a.k.a. Johny Jump-up). Unfortunately, at this point he has only mastered the art of turning:

For some reason Toren doesn’t go to sleep easily when I’m holding him. When Debi is holding him, he pretends like he’s hungry, but he doesn’t cry or fight. When I hold him, he cries and wrestles: Here’s another version of Toren doing this: Turns out, I have since found a way to significantly reduce…

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Of all the footage I’ve shot so far, this clip is, by far, my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLla0Q3egIc Now, before you comment about how evil I am, I have to set up the shot. We put Toren on his play mat of terror a couple days earlier and, in an effort to get him to like it,…

You may have heard that “the pen is mightier than the sword”. Not so for Toren. For Toren, the pen is the sword: I give him this on occasion to check his ability to grasp things. He’s come awfully close to poking his eye out more than once!

Some good friends gave us a play mat for Toren. For some reason, every time we put him on it he freaks out: Maybe he’s still too young?

Toren loves to stretch when waking up… and when eating… and, well, all the time:

I could be completely wrong here, but it seems like there is something different about Toren’s eyes.  When he’s looking at me or at Debi, it looks like he understands – like there is some sense of recognition.  He seems… aware.  But when he’s just looking around at random stuff, his eyes seem glossy and…

For those following the blog, you may remember that Debi told Toren to “walk over” to her one evening to eat (she was tired). Well, a few days later I helped Toren do exactly that: