Ryan and Debi

Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

  • the cake incident

    We asked Toren what he would want if he learned to use the toilet and stopped using diapers.  His response, “To jump in a cake.”  While we’re not fans of wasting food, we were perfectly willing to waste a cake if it meant no more diapers.  During our trip to Utah, Toren’s grandmother made a…

  • conversations from the bath tub

    I was doing the dishes in the kitchen after dinner while Debi took a bath with Toren.  Here’s the conversation I overheard: Toren: My penis is big. Debi: That happens when you play with it. Toren: No. That happens because it turns into a trampoline. (He then began bouncing one of his toy people on…

  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    Toren fell in love with The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle for a while and watched it enough to pseudo-memorize it.  Here he is performing it at Grandmary’s house in Utah: And here is Debi performing it with puppets to show Toren how he could use the puppets a little more effectively (which he…

  • first test ride

    Here’s Toren trying out his new bike:

  • Toren has a new bike

    We found a two-wheel bike for Toren on Craig’s List for $10 (plus helmet).  It has training wheels.  Toren took to it like it was old news.  I have some video of him riding the bike the first time that I’ll post soon. I had to get a new bike rack for my car since…

  • anthropomorphizing at 3

    In our ongoing battle against ants, we found a few in the bathroom today.  Toren saw them all together and asked Debi what they were doing.  Debi said she didn’t know.  Then Toren suggested a possibility, “Maybe they’re talking.” Or, in comic form:

  • hide and seek

    Toren found a novel hiding place for hide and seek one day:

  • more Busch Gardens activities

    Here are a few more clips of Toren playing at Busch Gardens. Climbing the nets: Hanging from bars: And playing in a splash pad:

  • No, Everybody Does Not Know Him

    Not sure if you remember Toren’s run in with a guy at Taco Bell who asked him if he was going to go to church?  If not, you can read about it here.  The short version is Toren had no idea what he was talking about. That same guy saw Toren again this evening at…

  • more stuff to jump off

    I took Toren to the mall on a blustery summer day (we spend more time indoors during the summer than we do during the winter).  His favorite activity at this play area?  Jumping off stuff: And then he fell off the toys, too: