I know this is a recurrent theme of mine...but man, where do kids get all their energy? Today I went with two friends of mine from our small group. We were all husband-less this weekend...and K had the awesome idea to go to the botanical gardens. They're having a "blooming butterflies" exhibit. You go into their indoor gardens, and there are hundreds of butterflies...they land on you and everything! BUT...we decided to go after first service at church. And, we had a picnic lunch after the butterflies. Then...you get a "passport" to go through the outside gardens. If the kids collect all their stamps, they get a coupon for free frozen custard at the restaurant up the street. So...of course we had to do the stamps to get the frozen custard. We didn't leave the restaurant until after 2:30. The kids are usually both napping by 1pm. Both of them did really well. Abby slept the whopping 20 minutes it took us to get home, and then decided she didn't need to nap anymore. That was the ENTIRE nap she had ALL day. Brent got home early from Guard. And...I'm sad to admit...I said "welcome home!! I get a break...see you in a bit!" Okay, so it wasn't that immediate...and I did feel guilty once I left the house, but I had fun, and I needed that! Abby hasn't been sleeping well again...Caleb's been missing Brent...you get the idea! Anyway...here are the pictures from the day...
This is my favorite picture from the day.
The butterflies land on you quite a bit...This is me holding one of the butterflies. I wasn't very quick on the draw to get pictures of Caleb with the butterflies. He got so excited, they kept flying away!
The three best buds at the indoor gardens.
This was at the outdoor gardens on the path to the oriental gardens.
This was at the park at lunchtime. You should have seen me try to get all three 2/3 year-olds to look at the camera at the same time!
Caleb sniffing the flowers in the perennial garden.
There were so many beautiful flowers...and it was a great day!
Abby even enjoyed herself.
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