Ok, as many times as I have rebuild pihole with different scenarios and those that have answered have been very gracious with me on assisting me with getting the issue cleared up. That said, here is an update to the issue.
I am hoping the issue is due to the initial dhcp lease address my Pi had when installed will expire later today and will then have the static IP I assigned it.
I'm not sure if it is contributing to the problem, but it is recommended that you don't use ".local".
mDNS uses ".local" and it could cause conflicts, especially (though not exclusively) in Apple devices.
Reference: RFC 6762 - Multicast DNS