Each year we love going to the Olbrich Garden's Bloomin' Butterfly Event. They fill their conservatory with butterflies. The outdoor gardens are also full of butterflies. We prepare about a week early for this by getting all the butterfly books possible from the library. We printed out butterfly lifecycle worksheets and books and became butterfly aficionados before the event. The day of, everyone decked themselves out in butterfly gear - butterfly T-shirt for me, dresses for the girls, and Smoosh picked out a bright colored shirt so "butterflies would think I'm really good food." Otter followed suit with a not-so-loud red T-shirt.
We read more butterfly books and listened to a butterfly book on CD on the way there.
Once at the gardens, we met up with our friends and had a great picnic to make sure we had plenty of energy to do all that lookin'!
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| Yeah...butterflies! They have quite the collection of specimens donated from a local butterfly enthusiast! |
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| Beans is explaining her journaling to Jo Anna. |
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| Staring closeup at butterflies. |
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| ...investamigating... |
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| She's trying to lure butterflies onto her fingers. |
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| Discussing very important matters. |
And, as with all of our adventures, we came home tired (not so cranky this time!) and had nice long naps...at least the littler kiddos and I!!
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