Ryan and Debi & Toren

Travel, Tech, Thoughts…

  • pincer grasp

    Toren has had a good pincer grasp for a while. Apparently he knew he did as he stopped wanting to be spoon fed at around 7 months and instead insisted on feeding himself, as he attempts in this video:

  • Johnny Jumpers Are Fun

    I’ve posted photos and video of Toren hating his Johnny Jumper earlier on here.  Well, it took a while, but now he likes it:

  • Mentioned in the Guardian…

    Its over 6 months since it was published, but apparently I was mentioned in a news story in the Guardian, a prominent UK newspaper. Yeah for me!

  • the end of spoon feeding

    At some point right around the beginning of January Toren decided that he did not want to be spoon fed any more. This attempt to feed him basically sealed the deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfEsG5KOgyM Since this incident, we’ve basically let him feed himself solid foods (he’s been pretty good at it for a while).

  • more ball bouncing

    This is another clip of Debi bouncing a ball on Toren’s head to get him to laugh. We had friends over on New Year’s Eve and told them about this. They had to see it for themselves and are the ones you can hear laughing in the background.

  • Bean Sucker

    We regularly have green beans as a vegetable accompaniment to dinner. Debi let Toren suck on a bean one night and was lucky to get it back:

  • Walking the Walk

    Toren’s grandmother, Rosemary, bought him a walker when she was last here. Toren has liked sitting in it since he received it, but it wasn’t until about the end of December that he realized he could move in it. Here is some footage of him realizing he can move in the walker:

  • Ronald J. Heromin, M.D. & Tampa Bay Wellness Centre

    I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but in the last few months a new pain management clinic was opened in the strip mall behind our house called Tampa Bay Wellness Centre. For two and a half years, we’ve had no problems with the strip mall that is just over our fence. But in the…

  • ball to the head = laughing baby

    Debi and I discovered this favorite game of Toren’s independently – for some reason he really likes having a soft ball bounced off his head:

  • you know healthcare is bad when…

    You can’t get your healthcare provider to talk to itself. Some background to explain.  Upon moving to Florida, I took a job at the University of Tampa with Ryan, where I had good health insurance.  A large chunk of that insurance was covered by the University and we didn’t really worry about the insurance that…