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Great Eggs–pectations!

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:15:00 +0000

Wha––?

Ryan. Pinkie. Look!

We are Going to Dye Easter Eggs This Morning!

First, we have to Put Down Newspapers to Protect our Table.

Then, you have to Tie On these Egg Coloring Bibs that I Made for you.

(we cut our egg coloring bibs from plastic bags)

Daddy. I dont Think that I’ve Ever Colored Eggs Before.

I Know that I Have Not Colored Eggs– Ever!

Well, Kids… it’s Not Too Hard.

And it can even be Easy!

I Like Easy!

The Important thing is to Have a Coloring Bib

and to Use Lots of Newspapers to Cover our Work Area.

How do we Start, Daddy?

Dip one of your Eggs into a Color that you Choose…

My Egg is Turning Yellow!

Another way to Color Eggs is to Dampen a Paper Towel with Vinegar Water–

then Put Food Coloring on the Paper Towel.

Roll -Up the Egg in the Paper Towel

and Wrap with Plastic Wrap

(the longer it stays wrapped, the brighter it will be)

Mine’s Pretty Bright!

I’m Waiting for Mine to Get Brighter!

Another Way is to Use a Sponge and Dab-On Colored Dye!

Daddy Taught me this and I Like it a LOT!

We’re Having FUN!!!

Daddy– I Just Couldn’t Wait!

I Had to Try an Egg to See if Colored Eggs TASTE Colored!

Oh, Pinkie! Ryan!

What Splendid Eggs you’ve Crafted! They are Beautiful, kids!

Now– let’s Clean-Up our Mess.

Much Better! How Pretty!!!

You kids Deserve a Reward for Doing Such a Great Job!

You Even Stayed Clean! I’m Amazed!!

(and relieved)

Thank you Daddy!

Yes, Thank you! That was Great Fun, Dad!

Look! Duckie Puzzles came with our Coloring Kit!

Duckies are my MOST Favorite-ist Birds!!!

I Hope that the Easter Bunny Likes our Eggs when he Visits!

We’re Waiting for the Easter Bunny.

Waiting… waiting… waiting…

We’re Still Waiting, Mr. Easter Bunny.

We are Waiting Patiently. Very Patiently. Very, very Patiently.

Do you Hear Us, Mr. Easter Bunny? WE’RE PATIENTLY WAITING…!

Pinkie’s Wheel-ie Good Day!

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:55:00 +0000

Wanna’ Ride?

Would you Like to Drive?

Wanna’ Take it Out By Yourself, Ryan?

Let’s Do It Again!!

A Special “Thank You” to Mr. Harrison Paul S. for a Gift of Photoshop 6

Making this Story Possible

Daddy, Pinkie, and Ryan’s Halloween Surprise!

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:07:00 +0000

Daddy– I want to Make Something for Pinkie this Halloween. I want it to be a Surprise!

Will you Please Help me to Build a Haunted House?

Mommy Gave me this Kit to Build a Haunted House.

Look! We’ve Built the Walls!

And Now the Roof is Built!

Thank you, Daddy, for Painting-In the Door and the Windows.

SURPRISE, Ryan! I have Built This Natural Background for Your Haunted House!

I Think that it Will Help you to Make a Very Nice Halloween Gift for Pinkie.

You are Being Very Sweet to Your Sister.

Daddy– it is FUN to Do Something Nice for Someone!

I Hope that Pinkie Likes it.

I Believe that she will Like it, Ryan.

You have Worked So Hard and So Neatly on your Surprise Gift for your Sister.

We Better Clean-Up our Mess, Ryan. I will Help you.

PINKIE ––!! I have a SURPRISE for you!!

OH MY GOSH, Pinkie!!! You SURPRISED ME With your Beautiful Halloween Costume!!!

You are a Scarecrow! I Don’t Think that the Birds would Be Too Scared of you, Pinkie…

…you are a Pretty Scarecrow!!!

Awww, Ryan…! You are the Nicest Brother EVER!! :o)

We Hope that YOU Have a Happy Halloween!

Oh–– and… * BOO *––!!! ;o)

Ryan and Pinkie are Puzzled!

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:30:00 +0000

What are you Doing, Ryan?

Reading a Book about Hot Air Balloons, Pinkie.

Would you Like to Help me Put a Puzzle Together?

Sure, Pinkie! That would be a Fun Thing to Do!

Mommy taught me to Begin a Puzzle with the Four Corners, Ryan.

Here! I Found one of the Four Corners, Pinkie!

Daddy Taught me to Keep the Puzzle Picture Close to me

when I Build a Puzzle, Pinkie.

I Found All of the Right Side!

I Found Lots of the Bottom and

Some of the Top, Pinkie!

We are Doing Very Well Building our Puzzle, Daddy!

Yep! We have All our Edges Done and

we are Starting on the Middle Pieces.

Hey! We are Missing a Piece of our Puzzle!!

We can not Finish our Puzzle Unless we Find it!

Mommy Always makes Daddy Look Under Things–

and he Finds Everything There!

–but it’s Not Under this Box…

It Didn’t Fall Down Onto the Floor, Ryan.

We Have to Keep Looking, Pinkie.

Mommy and Daddy Both Say that it is Very Important

to Learn to Finish Whatever we Start.

I’m Puzzled, Pinkie.

Where can our Missing Puzzle Piece be?

Let’s Try Harder, Ryan.

There Must Be Places Where we Haven’t Looked Yet!

Well– it’s Not Under my Cushion, Pinkie!

And it’s Not Under our Puzzle Table, either!

There it is Ryan!!!

It was Under my Cushion all along!!

We’ve Completed our Puzzle, Daddy!

For a Little While– we were Puzzled by a Puzzle Piece that was Missing–

but we Kept Looking for It and we Finally Found It.

It Feels Satisfying to Find the Missing Puzzle Piece–

and it Really Feels Great to Finish our Colorful Bear Puzzle!

Did You See the Missing Puzzle Piece before Ryan and Pinkie Did?

Let’s Do a ‘Speriment!

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 01:22:00 +0000

Let’s Do Something!

What Can we Do?

I Know! Let’s Do a ‘Speriment!

Daddy Gave us this Book with Lots of ‘Speriments.

This one Looks like Fun. We can Make our own Telephone, Ryan.

Let’s See. How do we Do This?

First, we Need some ‘Stuff’. Let’s Ask Daddy for the Things on this Page, Ryan.

Here Kids. You can use these juice cans for your Telephone Experiment.

Now we Have To Make Holes and Do Other Stuff.

O.K. I Found a String and a Hammer and Nails to Make a Hole in the Bottom of our Cans, Pinkie.

I’ll Go First and Show you How.

See? It Wasn’t Too Hard!

You are Doing Great, Pinkie!

Ryan– we almost Forgot the Toothpicks!

We Break Them and we Tie Them Together with our String– Like This, Ryan.

Now, Pull the String Through the Can.

See? Now, You Do It, Ryan.

Like this? Yes, Ryan.

We Did It! Yeah!!!

Can you Hear me, Ryan?

Pinkie– you’ve Got to Talk Through the Can!

Can you Hear me Now?

I Hear you, Pinkie! And you Sound Just Like my Sweet Sister!

Playing With Our Food

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Mommy Says we Shouldn’t Play with our Food

But Mommy is not Home Today.

Look Ryan! We got some New Cookie Cutters in the Mail.

Look at these Interesting Shapes. Let’s try them Out!

Let’s Use Bread – and we can Cookie Cut our LUNCH!

Ryan– Why not Invite Dog and Kitty to Play?

Dog. Kitty. Would you Like to Help use Our New Cookie Cutters?

OK! We Like Playing with Our Food!

I want the Bone! OK! I want the Fish!

The Dog and Bone are My Shapes!

And This Fish is For Me!

I Get the Bears! ‘Cause I’m a Bear.

Has Anyone Done This Before?

I’ve seen Your Mommy Making Cookies. I Think I Remember How This Works.

How do we do it Dog?

Well, you Push Down on the Cookie Cutter.

Like This!

You ‘gotta Push REAL Hard! Grrrr!!!!

Et voila! C’est fini!

Look at my Orange Marmalade Bone!

That Looked Easy, Dog!

Now I’ll Try!

PUSH! Right, Dog?

Whoa! Something’s not Right!

I don’t know Ryan… looks like you could use a Paw.

I think so Dog!

Thank you!

You’re welcome Ryan.

We’re Doing It!

You’re Working Well Together.

Yeah!!!

This is Fun, Dog!

I wanna’ do mine next!

Here goes!

I did it!

I cut out a Fish!

Playing with our Food is Fun!

I wanna’ do a Ducky next!

What a nice Ducky!

You’re doing Very Well, Kitty.

I’ll press HARD all over.

Marmalade! It’s just Ducky!!

I like my Ducky!

Now I’ll do a Dog.

I Like Marmalade ’cause it doesn’t Stick to the Roof of my Mouth!

Look what we did!

We can Eat these Parts that are Left too!

What a Fun Time we’ve had Playing with our Food!

Our Buggy, Buggy Night

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:47:00 +0000

Watch as Ryan and his Friend, Dog, Relax and Play with Ryan’s really Neat-o Candy!

Look, Ryan. Look at the Pretty Designs the Setting Sun is Making on our Floor.

There is Your Wicker Chair, Ryan. Let’s Move it Over a Bit.

Now– There is Your Wicker Chair and Mommy’s Pretty Cut-Glass Door.

Isn’t the Sky Pretty as the Sun begins to Set?

Nightfall will Soon be here, Ryan.

Daddy? Since it’s Getting Darker, May I Please Open my New Candy Tonight?

Sure, Ryan. Soon it will begin to get Dark and you will be able to have Fun with your New Candy.

Look, Daddy. There is a Tool inside!

Yes, Ryan. You use it to pick up the Candy Bugs.

Let’s ask Dog to come Play, too, Daddy.

What do You Think about My new Lightning Bug Candy, Dog?

You’re not so Sure that you Would Eat Lightning Bugs, Dog?

Dog wants to Watch from Behind me Daddy. I think that he is a little bit Scared.

Don’t be Afraid, Dog. It’s just Candy that Lights Up!

When I Squeeze this Tool it Lights Up My Candy Bugs.

It’s Fun!

Tastes Sweet! It Does Not Taste Like Bugs at All!

Here Dog, try one Without the Light.

Now, Try it With the Light. Here Dog, I’ll Hold it for You!

Give it a Lick, Dog. See? Lightning Bug Candy doesn’t Hurt!

My Lightning Bug Candy is Delicious!

You are holding it yourself, Dog. I see that You Like Lightning Bug Candy now.

Dog, It’s getting Dark.

Real Dark!

I Think we Need need a Light!

Let’s Eat MORE Lightning Bug Candy in the Dark!

Daddy – It’s a Beach-y Day – Can we Go?

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Sat, 29 May 2010 04:49:00 +0000

Daddy – It’s a Beach-y Day – Can we Go? –Please?

Sure, Ryan. We can go to the Beach today.

Do we have all our Beach Stuff, Ryan? Beach Umbrella, Cooler with Food and Drinks,

your Beach Towel, my Beach Towel, Toys, and our Floats –– are we O.K.?

Here we are. South Lido Park – my Favorite Beach.

We will walk North East, Ryan – for about a Quarter-mile.

Oh, Daddy! I am enjoying this Beach-y Day!

You could do that in the Water, Ryan. Let me blow up a Float for you.

This is So Very Nice, Daddy! The Water is rocking me Up and Down… Up and Down.

Duckie is having a Good Time, too!

Ryan? Why don’t you come in to Shore now and build a Sand Castle? I’ll help you.

Let’s Practice, first, Ryan. Put sand into a bucket and then turn it over to make a nice Castle Shape.

Daddy– something is Wrong! My sand is Falling Apart.

I think that we will have to Add Water to this sand to make it Stick Together, Ryan.

Here. We can use this watering can that we brought – like this…

But, first… let’s Work Together and build a Large Flat Base for our Walls and our Towers to sit upon.

You are Doing Great, Ryan–– Helping to make a Nice, Flat Base with your new Grader Tool.

Daddy! The Water Helped! The sand is Sticking Together. I made my First Sand Castle Tower, Daddy!

Daddy. It’s Nice. Our Sand Castle is getting Bigger and Bigger!

I like our Walls and Towers, Daddy. This is Fun!

This is your First Sand Castle, Ryan. Did you Enjoy yourself?

I Did, Daddy! I really Enjoyed playing in the Sand and building a Sand Castle with you.

Let’s take a Break, Daddy. I need to Rest a little bit.

Look, Daddy. Boats!

They’re coming to Shore!

May I Please sit on your Boat, Sir?

What a Nice Boat you have, Sir.

I Wish we had a Boat, Daddy.

Well, Ryan– we don’t have a Boat… but we Do have a Float! Go try it out.

Look, Daddy! I see a Shell!

That was Fun. I liked the Float.

–But I still Wish we had a Boat.

Sorry, Ryan. We can not have a Boat right now.

Mommy and Daddy are Saving for a New Roof for our Home.

Our Home is like Building your Castle, Ryan. We have to Work Hard on it.

I Understand, Daddy. But I still Wish we had a Boat.

Let’s play with Your Toy Boat, Ryan.

I think I’ll lie down now, Daddy.

I’m Glad we live near a Beach!

It’s Relaxing.

(sigh)

Let’s go Home Ryan. We had a Nice Beach-y Day, didn’t we?

Ryan’s Beach Hike (A Morning with Daddy)

Ryan Lorenc-Haluska — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:08:00 +0000

Daddy had a morning off. He said, “Let’s go for a Hike”!

And so we did.

We’re going hiking at the Beach, Daddy?

Yes. Put on your Sunglasses and your Visor.

Oh– look! A Great Blue Heron.

This is Fun, Daddy. Let’s see what we can find.

What’s this, Daddy?

It is a Coconut Ryan. It will grow into a Coconut Palm Tree.

Look, Ryan! Raccoon tracks.

Let’s see where they go, Daddy?

They went into the Woods, Daddy.

A sign. Let’s see where it takes us, Ryan.

Oh! This is such a beautiful Bay. Let’s stay and visit for awhile.

So quiet…

Daddy. It is Beautiful here.

Put your Visor back on, Ryan. We will walk along the beach.

Daddy. What’s this?

Those are Sea Oats, Ryan. Birds and mice eat them.

What did you find there, Ryan?

Those are Barnacles. Tiny animals live inside those shells.

Look up in the tree, Ryan.

G’bye Great Blue Heron. Bye Beach.

What a nice Hike, Daddy!