Animals Corinne Hates: Armadillos, Opossums, and Alligators.

.. Previously on The Waterstraut Waterspout, you heard about Waterstraut Spring Break 2013. This is the continuation of that dramatic story.. 

Sunday of course was Easter, we set our alarm but everyone must have been tired from the weeks events- because nobody got up until 11. We hunted for eggs and baskets (which always reminds me so much of my dad laughing at Cort not being able to find his). Calib was the last to find his basket. We had skyped Jake the night before and he came up with putting it in Hayden's backpack. It was a pretty good place. 

After some strawberry crepes for brunch we had our First Annual Waterstraut Egg-stacle course. I don't have a lot of pictures from the event because I took video but it was pretty funny. There were seven stations. In the first one, they had to hit eggs with nerf guns, then they had to open up wet slimy plastic eggs and find the one with the quarter in it, then they had to put an egg on a spoon and race around the palm trees making two figure eights. Station four was my favorite. In a bucket of shaving cream they had to find the right color of egg. That one got pretty messy. Station five they had to throw some hard boiled eggs into a pot a couple of feet away, then they had to find the hard boiled egg among the non-hard boiled by breaking the eggs. And the last station was just a classic egg roll with a spoon to the finish line. It wasn't quite 'Waterstraut Olympics' fun to watch- but it was still pretty entertaining. I'll have to get those videos up soon. Calib was the proud winner of the coveted Chocolate Easter Bunny. Peyton was less than thrilled. 

Tracy and JD stopped by for a visit on Easter while we watched the Florida game (boo! They lost, but on the upside that makes me the Waterstraut Bracket Champion for the second year running) And then we had a special low country boil for Easter dinner; it just really means crab legs are added. But everyone goes wild for it.

Monday the boys continued their Spring Break (they give the teachers an extra planning day), so that was Art day. We made bleach pen t-shirts and some garden stones, and made one more trip to the pool. Yes, its cold.. but we've been making the most of it.

Tuesday was back to school. Peyton and I had hit the Lincoln assassination on our time line on the Friday before Spring Break, and the movie came out the following Monday so we Netflixed it. I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. And it makes me feel good when Peyton is like "I know who that is" or 'I know what that is' when we're watching a movie like that where we've covered the history behind it all. He's really soaking those things in. I'm going to have to do something special when we hit the anniversary of Lincolns death. I have Earth Day plans I'm pretty excited about too. 

Hayden had a hard adjustment going back to school. It makes me feel guilty I don't home school him too. I think it would have been a lot harder to do the two of them at once when I was new to this whole home school thing, but as we get further along I know I could handle it, and poor Hayden is dying to be home schooled. He'll finish out the year of course, but it's looking 99 percent likely we home school him next year too. 

Also, hey, how bout that Thursday night television? Asa and I have a dwindling amount of shows- but Thursday night is like date tv night. Kids go to bed early and we have Community, Parks and Rec, the Office, and Go On. All good shows. And then Scandal, like the best show. Also, on the other entertainment spectrum, what a resource our library is. I love that place. And their online hold/renew system-- just awesome. 

Anyway, Saturday we had to get up early and get to the zoo. Our friends' Tracy and JD's son was 4 last week and his party was at the zoo. It was an impressive party too, let me tell you. The kids played out on the playground and their was some snacky food and such. But they brought in some animals and presented them to the kids. There was an armadillo, an African Bullfrog, an Opossum, and an Alligator. They got to pet everything but the Opossum, he's pretty shy. I hate all those animals. I was hoping for something cuter. Like a baby pgymy hippo. Or a kangaroo. Really, anything but those. Yuck. The kids were thrilled though! 

After the party we all got to go to the zoo. Katie and Kevin were also there for a little while. We've been so busy lately we haven't seen all that much of them. The kids played in the water, and got a free ticket to feed the goats. 

Plus we got to hang out and see all the other animals. The zoo is pretty expensive, so we don't really go very often, it was a good opportunity to take advantage of the nice weather and a free zoo trip. Thanks again to Tracy and JD for inviting us. 

Other notable event: Hayden lost one of his top teeth. He's a snaggletooth. It's kind of funny.

I would like to say things are going to get calmer around here, but with end of the year school activities, Asa's work schedule, and upcoming plans it'll be August 17th before there's an open Saturday or Sunday on my calendar. (And that's not sarcasm, for real- August 17th. Plus I'm considering heading back up to Ohio for the fair so that may push us back until nearly September!)

Time to add the pictures and get to folding laundry mountain.

Next Up: Art Shows, Shopping Day, Cooking Day, and Disney Day!