The Market at Del Val held a pretty cool event today - Butterfly Festival! They had out a bunch of plants that butterflies like and a speaker who raises butterflies (cant remember his name). Plus lots of things for the kids to do!
Tractor rides
Homemade ice cream!
Painting a butterfly pot
Bouncy slide
We learned some pretty cool things about butterflies
They also had a butterfly release - I got one for Sam - the butterfly was in the envelope - they can live like this for 4 days - wow!
The picture below you can see the outline of the butterfly in the envelope
Envelope is about to be opened!
Sam opening the envelope - click to make it bigger so you can see it
And they all flew away......and Sam cried..... I guess he thought he got to keep the butterfly....
Since we were at a nursery a lot of the butterflies hung around so Sam and I went looking for one....and found one
Then he let it go in the bush
But before we left he wanted to get one more.... he walked up to a butterfly bush where one was sitting and just picked it right up! He was so excited!
What a fun time we had!
Wow, just caught up with reading the blog. What great ideas you have. Love the days of the week for Sams clothes each day. The play room looks amazing. cant wait to see it. Hannah is growing up so fast. I want to play in the creek. ha ha Cant wait to see all of you in a few days. Love you all
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