\nWe have a lifetime membership at the Odyssey Aquarium, and we are getting our money’s worth in the first year. We like to spend time there! There are sharks in the bathrooms!
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<\/a><\/p>\nTrevor like the large catfish Stingrays are his favorite though Touch pools – he is petting a sea slug They will spend a lot of time playing with this water table. There is a new over-sized lite-brite They have some new Hawaiian stingrays that are really large. This is with the fish the boys call BFG. Like Big Friendly Giant, but instead it is Big Fat Grouper. With a diver for scale More sharks When you come on Wednesday mornings, it is like having the place all to yourself. On the weekends, you can hardly get through this tunnel because of shoulder to shoulder people! Sub-post #2:<\/strong> No hands on this boy, he is really swimming himself! He made it about half the width of the pool. Then he waits for the rest of his classmates to make it. Brendan keeps me company in the parent area. He looks forward to swimming some day. The school treats Trevor to a free popcorn after the lesson. He orders an ICEE too because they always overfill it and it erupts like a volcano. Sub-post #3:<\/strong><\/p>\n One Saturday, I was feeling really sick so Bill and the boys took a trip to the mountains to meet some friends. They took their Jeep. There is so much funny about this picture The boys each got to have a ride on a friend’s “real kid quad” The destroyed a cardboard box with sticks in the wilderness. How much more fun can you have? All the kids in camp took turns in the Jeep until they wore the battery out Rocks in water!!! The best! Sub-post #4:<\/strong><\/p>\n The next day, we decided to take a drive up South Mountain. It is a nice place to go for views of the city Sub-post #5:<\/strong><\/p>\n Trevor continues to go to martial arts, but we have missed a lot due to illness and scheduling issues. Brendan is almost done with his 12 week intensive feeding program. He has made some good progress and learned some skills, but he has a lot of practicing to do. We were able to eliminate one daily hour-stuck-to-the-feeding-pump from his day. It is a little extra freedom. I am glad to be done with the program for now, it was so much driving and extra time out of the day. Now, Brendan is going to SCHOOL!! Three days a week for 2.5 hours, he is in a real classroom with about 14 other kids. So far he really likes it! This past week, the boys were on Spring Break! We met one of Trevor’s school friends at LegoLand for the day on Wednesday. The three boys had a blast for hours Brendan likes all of the new Lego Batman Movie stuff that has been added. We made a batwing in the free-build area And raced it on the ramps He was disappointed that we had to leave it there, so when we got home, we had to do it all again with our own Legos. Sub-post #6:<\/strong><\/p>\n It was time for the annual Chandler Ostrich Festival. Brendan had seen an ad for it months ago and was so excited! He love the show “Miles from Tomorrowland”. The boy, Miles, has a pet Robo-Ostrich named Merc that is one of Brendan’s all time favorite characters. The Ostrich Festival had ostrich racing Trevor made friends with an emu The emu was very intrigued by something on Trevor’s shoes and it kept pecking them. The boys found this hilarious. There was a petting zoo with tiny baby pigs. A very hungry llama tried to steal the feeding shovels. The boys got to feed goats, llamas, pigs, and even a zebra. We are waiting for pig races I have a new phone that actually has a decent camera. The boys want to take selfies. We are silly in our hats, but it was already 90 degrees!! And they are off! The winning pig gets an Oreo cookie There was a cool STEM tent at the festival too. It was just nice to be in the shade. Sub-post #7:<\/strong><\/p>\n We didn’t get enough ostrich, so we had to make a trip down near Tuscon to the Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch. This was such a fun place, I am not sure why we haven’t been before. It was a massive petting and feeding zoo.<\/p>\n They give you this 5-stage cup of chow and you head out to see all the animals. It starts with miniature donkeys. There was even a baby one. There is a seed stick for the parakeets. Then feeding the deer The “Goat Penthouse” is hilarious. The boys sent the chow up the conveyor belts to dump in to their feeding cups. This is actually a good way to keep the goats from crowding, pushing, and jumping on kids. It was also quite funny. On to Brendan’s favorite. This ranch has a tremendous herd of ostriches. I am guessing easily in the hundreds that were visible.
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\nTrevor would spend the time in the lobby waiting for Brendan and making friends.
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