Ryan and Debi & Toren

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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… 😉

  • England Trip – Day 4

    With just a couple days to see London, Steve and I tried to pack a lot in. So, even though we were up late (until about 2:00 am as I didn’t get to London until pretty late), we got up fairly early. We followed a self-guided walking tour I found here to see the London…

  • a skeleton in the Cragun closet

    Yeah, so, it’s a month and a half since Debi and Toren wore this, but here’s a clip of Debi and Toren dancing in their Halloween costumes:

  • England Trip – Day 3

    This was the day of the conference.  The conference was the inaugural conference of the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network, an organization primarily made up of scholars interested in the non-religious.  The organizers of the conference were kind enough to invite me to give one of three keynote presentations.  The other two keynote speakers, David…

  • exersaucering

    I gave props to the inventor of the exersaucer earlier, but I have to show how enthralled Toren is by his exersaucer: He doesn’t always love his exersaucer, but some days he’ll spend 45 minutes to an hour playing in there.

  • coughing and grunting for attention

    This video shows another of Toren’s phases – coughing for attention. For about a month, Toren would fake cough to get our attention. He must have realized that we paid very close attention to him when he was really coughing, so he started fake coughing to get our attention. This clip also shows his new…

  • England Trip – day 2

    I arrived at Gatwick airport around 8:00 am, relatively unrested (thanks to my talkative neighbor).  I quickly made my way through customs, picked up my bag, exchanged some currency, then found the stop for the direct bus to Oxford.  I missed a bus by about 15 minutes, which meant I had to wait another 45…

  • Toren and the banana

    Everything we do, Toren wants to do now. His favorite toys are our computer mice and keyboards (what does that say about us?). When he saw Debi eating a banana one morning, he wanted a turn:

  • England Trip – Day 1

    While I wasn’t particularly excited to leave for the UK on my birthday, in a sense it was kind of a nice birthday present, so I didn’t really mind.  I arrived at the airport a couple hours before my flight, checked in fine, and headed to the terminal from where my US Airways flight to…

  • Eugenie vs. the birds

    During our visit to Fort de Soto, my Mom decided she had to chase down the birds lounging on the beach: