Easter Weekend

Yes, Easter was a while ago and it probably feels like we're taking a trip in the Wayback Machine for this post, but there have been lots of goings on in our household over the last little while.

Back a few weeks ago, my parents came down to Mesa for Spring Break/Easter Weekend/Gibby's blessing. McKay, sensing he would have to share time with his brother, decided to add some sparkle to his personality by cutting all four eye teeth that weekend. But like many plans laid by 18 month-olds, it didn't quite work out the way he intended. I'm sure McKay thought that his eye teeth suffering would garner him some sympathy, but actually he just earned the reputation of being a bit of a complainer.

Grandma and Grandpa got to go to the zoo with us and Grandpa even offered to take McKay on the merry-go-round. McKay was unsure about the whole thing and even though he got to ride on a rhino, one of his favorite animals, his reaction each time he would pass us and see us was about the same. He wasn't too happy.


But we moved on to other things. Grandma and Grandpa got to play with the stingrays.
The Phoenix zoo has a deal with another colder weather zoo so that Phoenix has the stingrays between November and April and they have the rays between May and October. The twist this year was that the stingrays also had a few sharks in their pool. I never got a picture but Grandma has to just about jump in the pool to feel the cool nurse shark. They liked to hang out under the waterfall because there is more oxygen there so it was kind of hard to get to them. This is just after Grandma felt the shark.
The sharks feel rougher than the underbellies of the stingrays. The rays are really soft and slick. Interestingly, they ask you to pet the underside of the rays rather than the tops because the rays are more susceptible to injury on top. I guess they paid extra for the undercarriage coating.

McKay did ease up on the pain and suffering once we got to Oregano's and he was given permission to finish off our Pizookie (Pizza - Cookie). It's a semi-baked chocolate chip cookie - read still doughey - with a lot of vanilla ice cream on top.
Gibson didn't get any of the pizookie, but he was pleased with his new blanket. He already likes dinosaurs, largely because McKay likes to read him stories about them.
The Easter egg hunt itself went pretty well. McKay loved searching out for eggs. He didn't have any trouble at all picking up on the idea that you needed to pick up as many eggs as you can at blazing speed.
Before Grandma and Grandpa left, we showed them the Wii. They got really into boxing.
It was a lot of fun having Grandma and Grandpa here. Happy Easter.