Butterflies!

Yesterday we ventured over to the Gardens to see the butterflies that are there right now. This is our first visit this to the butterflies, but certainly not our last! It was a beautiful, sunny day so the butterflies were very active. Joshua love every minute of it, well except "all the walking". On the other hand, Matthew was excited at first but as time ticked by he seemed more frightened of the winged creatures. While we were in the observatory we even saw butterflies being collected from the bungalow and released which was pretty neat. We spent a majority of our time in the butterflies, but Joshua made sure we spent some time in seeing the Jim Dine sculptures too. Being such a beautiful day we were even able to spend some time in the children's garden and the boys were able to do some fun activities. It was a fabulous morning that we hope to go back and repeat very soon!

Joshua spent quite a bit of time studying the butterfly life cycle exhibit on display.

Peering into the butterfly bungalow watching butterflies being collected for release.

The butterfly bungalow was a busy place.

Releasing the butterflies!

Fly away!

Snack break

An odd species.....the Joshua butterfly.

A very odd species.....the cranky, I do NOT want a picture, Matthew butterfly.

Checking out the butterflies with magnifying glasses.

Dressing up like a butterfly. (He specifically wanted to dress up like a Blue Morpho to match the one tattooed on my back).

Building a butterfly.

On the way home Joshua drew the life cycle of the butterfly. Amazing how much they absorb and remember! Note: He had labeled everything with his own inventive spelling words, but ended up erasing them because he wanted to write them absolutely right (surprisingly he only had to add a 't' to hatching to make it correct).