Ryan and Debi

Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

  • I made Glenn Beck mad!

    He’s ranting about this report, of which I am a co-author. I consider this a shining achievement and derive almost as much satisfaction from watching Glenn Beck’s hysterics over our survey as I did when I learned I was going to publish my first article. My only regret: I didn’t make him cry!

  • You thought I was loud yesterday?

    So, you can probably guess at this point that Toren likes to talk. But you haven’t really heard him talk until you’ve heard him yell:

  • Who needs parents when you have boppies

    Toren entertained himself (and me) for a good 45 minutes on the boppy and play mat: So, on a related side note, I’m not a big fan of buying kids lots of toys. To date, I have bought him a whopping ZERO toys. But, here’s the irony – two things I did buy him are…

  • Telling Dad My Problems

    I thought this one was cute, because he’s clearly unhappy and since he was looking right at me while I filmed, it was almost as if he was trying to tell me why:

  • I have a voice and I know how to use it

    This entertained us (and apparently Toren) for hours):

  • Does a caged Toren sing?

    As I mentioned in the last post, Toren’s talking is too cute not to film. I have quite a bit of footage of him doing this (you’ll see a bit more, lucky you). Here he is not wrapped up just chatting with his mobile. On a different note, I should explain the fact that the…

  • Toren’s World

    As I was shooting Toren talking in his crib, it dawned on me that I shoot a lot of footage of Toren from my perspective, but I never shoot footage from Toren’s perspective. So, here’s what Toren was seeing: Debi’s Mother, Rosemary, sent the mobile. Initially I thought it was going to be creepy and…

  • Toren tells his mobile why hiccups suck

    Lately I’ve been telling everyone who asks about Toren that he has started to “talk”. Of course, by “talk” I mean he vocalizes. I’ve heard other babies babble and coo, but not like Toren. This is the first footage we shot of him doing this (it isn’t the last though). In this one he has…

  • why Toren won’t serve in the military

    One of the many, many outfits we received from one of my colleagues at UT (shout out to Mary!) was this camouflage outfit. While Toren was in it I figured he should practice his military crawl: Um, yeah, not so much… I guess we can rule that career path out.

  • Bjorn to dance

    Toren and Debi cutting a rug to Dave Matthews: