This is the family website kept by Jason and Tina Coleman from 2004 – 2010. It's no longer actively updated but remains just as cute as ever.
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!)
We all know how it’s supposed to be done, right? Because all the really good singers on TV do it that way. When you get to the part of the song that requires the most feeling you close your eyes and belt it out.
Callie did that tonight while singing the Belly Button Song. She got to the chorus and closed her eyes and let it fly.
“Baby I need to tell you something,
I don’t got a belly button!“
Let’s go to a place called Friendly’s…they know how to make stuff that people want.
Cora’s comment after a few moments staring at the lunch daddy had made for her.
I’ve made a lot of changes to colemania.com over the last few days and they don’t all look right in all browsers. Well, actually, they all look great in Firefox and some of them don’t look so hot in IE. Bear with me.
I have half a mind to lobotomize you!
Said to Rufus after a spate of bad behavior.
Everypeople
Cora’s word for ‘everyone’
Callie recently turned 2 years old! We have pictures up at flickr.com
Happy Birthday, Callie!
Cora’s ability to draw has really taken off in the last couple of weeks. She can draw simple shapes and fairly straight lines. Two of her favorite subjects to draw now are daddy and pop-pop. Here’s one of daddy.
You may be able to tell that she watches a fair amount of public television by the similarity of her drawing to this PBS logo.
I added some photos from January and February to the photo gallery. I used the free Picasa 2 photo software for cropping and resizing. Here’s what I think of it…
Picasa is *very good* for managing photos. It can find and index photos on your hard drive quickly and makes browsing thru them fast and painless. It also has (at least) two useful ways of sorting my pictures as I browse them.
First, it has a “star” button that you can press while viewing any photo. That’s it. Tell Picasa to show you all of the photos you starred and it will. Second, you can create ‘labels’ and assign them to photos. Then you can choose to view only those photos with a given label.
Picasa also makes it easy to crop and correct photos. It’s tools (crop, red-eye reduction, contrast/color auto-correct) are easy to use and give pretty good results. The best part, though, is that none of the original image files are changed as you edit them. From within Picasa it *seems as though* you’re changing the image file, but Picasa is doing some sleight of hand: your original file is unchanged, only inside Picasa does it appear to have been edited.
The only really obtuse thing I found was that I couldn’t resize images easily. I had to tell Picasa that I wanted it to create a web page to display some images and then it would let me select what size they should appear on the web page and write out the new files and the HTML. I’d rather just be able to write out the image files without the HTML.
Cora has been helping out at the grocery store for over a year now by driving the shopping cart. Callie was relegated to the backward-facing baby seat during these trips.
Well things have changed. Just last week Callie was promoted to co-driver. Now daddy’s all alone at the back of the buggy.
The concept of ‘fatherhood’ conjures the image of a provider: a masculine, authoritarian bread-winner. Here’s a picture that instead captures the essence of what it is to be a daddy: playful, helpful, and, at the moment, butterfly-clipped.
