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England Trip – Day 9
Aside from nearly missing my flight, not much interesting happened here. I arrived at Gatwick a bit later than I had hoped, about 1 hour and 45 minutes before my flight. The line to check in at US Airways was quite long, but I met a guy in the line who was on the same…
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homemade carrots
Every Gerber “solid” food we’ve given Toren he has liked: carrots, green beans, peas, applesauce, squash, and sweet potatoes. But when we tried to make our own, Toren wasn’t interested: Granted, we probably didn’t do a great job preparing the carrots, but Toren’s ability to discriminate between home made food and prepared food is a…
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England Trip – Day 8
This was our last day of touring around London. As we had visited all of the major attractions that we really wanted to see in the previous days, we opted for two less visited attractions. We started off the day with a visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. For those who don’t know, this…
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Toren and the apple
I’ve mentioned several times now that Toren is into imitating what we do. He tried a banana this way, then caught Debi eating an apple one morning and wanted to do that, too: If you pay close attention you’ll be privy to Debi and me discussing Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory, which, Debi correctly points…
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England Trip – Day 7
We were surprised at how many things we had been able to fit in at this point. If you’ve been reading these posts chronologically, you’ll know that we skipped two attractions for various reasons. This was our make up day. We started out with a visit to Abbey Road, the recording studio made famous by…
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shark boy
Toren’s initially tepid response to “solid” food has been replaced with his new response – he eats like a shark, in huge gulps. And when the food doesn’t arrive fast enough, he’ll chomp on whatever else is around (watch the end of the video):
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England Trip – Day 6
I drug Steve out to do a little more Sociology-related fieldwork during this day in London – we made the obligatory pilgrimage to the burial place of Karl Marx, Toren’s namesake, at Highgate Cemetery. Unknown to me before we arrived, there are a number of other famous people buried in the cemetery, including: Douglas Adams…
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Toren tricks
Finally, a video that shows off what our developing baby can now do. He rolls from his stomach to his back almost instantly. He can put his feet in his mouth (though he doesn’t much anymore). And he’s been able to spit out his binkie since pretty much day one (the launches in this clip…
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England Trip – Day 5
Given that this was a work trip, we started the day out properly – we went to a church service so I could do a bit of ethnographic field work. I had big plans for visiting a variety of different churches to get a sense of the variety within the Church of England. But what…
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Toren, Lord of the Bowl
Toren’s really taken to imitating us. Every time he sees us drink from a glass he wants to drink from a glass as well. I’m not sure where he got this behavior though: Maybe Debi drinks from bowls when I’m not around… 😉