Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

Toren still loves corn.  In this clip he is finishing off his third ear of corn:

One of Toren’s favorite activities is to walk on curbs.  In the video below he was walking on a curb at Busch Gardens.  Just before I started filming he fell and skinned his knee, but it didn’t stop him:

We went to some friends’ house on Labor Day.  They have a pool.  Believe it or not, it was too chilly for most already.  Here in Florida, if the water is below 80 degrees Fahrenheit, we’re not interested (we’re water temperature snobs!).  So only Toren and Debi got in the pool.  Here they are playing:

While we’re not always technical in the words we use with Toren (e.g., “Are you poopy?”), we did choose to use one technically accurate term – vulva.  Vulva, for those who don’t know, is the technical word for the external female genitalia from the mons pubis to the labia and anus.  Most people refer to…

I’m not exactly sure what, cognitively, would be developing to lead Toren to do this, but it was quite funny.  Toren has obviously observed Debi and I calling out for each other and calling out for him.  We often call out for Toren, especially now that he hides to defecate and he likes playing hide-and-seek.…

In preparation for Halloween this year we pulled out Toren’s pumpkin costume from last year.  He was not at all interested in putting the pumpkin part on, but totally dug the shoes:

Debi and I have often shared a bag of popcorn at night after Toren goes to bed.  A couple of nights when he stayed up late, he had a chance to try popcorn and is a huge fan.  Now, during the 30 minutes of TV he gets right before bed, he often will ask for…

Continuing my tradition of letting Toren play with toys in stores, here’s a clip of Toren riding a pink scooter at K-Mart while I was looking for something: It’s actually quite interesting to see how tentative he was with this.  On toys he can sit on he’s not tentative at all, but he was on…

We’re still exploring Busch Gardens using our annual passes.  In an area of the park we hadn’t explored yet we found these planes, which Toren really wanted to ride:

Toy Story has replaced Cars as Toren’s go-to movie (well, that and Star Wars).  In this clip Toren is running down a ramp at the hospital where he goes to daycare saying “to infinity and beyond”: Toren has recently started to want to explore around his daycare when we pick him up.  I haven’t been…