When is Tina?
Tina is on business in Australia — living 15 hours in the future compared to the rest of us here at home.
TIme in Sydney, Australia:
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This is the family website of Jason and Tina Coleman.
This is where we try to give our friends and family a glimpse of what goes on in our home. The stories and photos posted here are some of our favorite encounters with parenting and childing. (And sometimes we make up new words!)
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To Quote a Coleman…
I’m going to ruin the world!
Cameron said in anger, after having suffered an injustice at the hands of his sisters. He then tore two handfuls of fronds from the potted fern.
To Quote a Coleman…
Callie to Cameron:
The universe is made of niblets.
Working from daddy’s boiled-down explanation of atoms, the 5y/o boils it down a little further for the 2y/o.
To Quote a Coleman…
And I thought you were the best daddy ever!
Said Callie, crestfallen, as she marched off to the timeout daddy demanded of her.
Tooth Fairy Client #1171
It is very, very hard to believe. Cora has lost her second — Second. SECOND! — tooth.
How old must her father be? The father of the one who has lost her SECOND tooth? He cradled her in his arms, she a mere infant at the time. A mere infant who has not merely begun to lose her teeth, but has now lost her second — Second. SECOND! — tooth.
Go to Work Mom
Looking at the posts Jason’s put up in the past, realized there was no real category there for me, if I wanted to give my ‘Colemania’ opinion. Jas has ‘Stay Home Dad’ - what’s my corollary? ‘Go Away Mom’? Sometimes it feels that way: I go away to work, come home to go away to Pioneers, come home to go away to church, … But I didn’t want that particular category to be interpreted as a command: ‘Go Away, Mom!’. Not until our kids are closer to teenagers, anyway.
I think for the moment, I’ll use the rough heading ‘Go to Work Mom’. Nice interplay between ‘Stay Home Dad’ and ‘Go to Work Mom’. But Stay Home dads get the nice acronym, SHD where I’d be left with GtWM. I sense a real danger of someone dropping the ‘t’, thus putting me in danger of confusing folks about my dating availability, as well as a few other things. Maybe At Work Mom? That’d make me an AWM, which a web search puts me as an Angry White Male. Still a bit confusing, though at least not advertising any sort of dating availability.
Ideas?
To Quote a Coleman…
It falls down because of grabity.
Callie understands that her helium balloon has begun to sink towards the floor rather than rise to the ceiling because the Earth grabs it!
Doodles
We’ve been placing doodles into Cora’s lunchbag each day. I’ve posted some of them to Flickr.com. You can take a look by clicking on the image.
To Quote a Coleman…
You’re beat is very slow.
Callie, said like some kind of prophetic Jedi jazz master, to daddy, as she lay with her head on his chest listening to his heart.
To Quote a Coleman…
I liked you better with your bouquet.
Callie, talking to her recently clean-shaven father, comes up with the wrong word for goatee but makes for wonderful imagery anyway.