The Butterfly Exhibit

As I shared in my previous post, last Friday I took the girls and their cousin to visit the Butterly Exhibit at the Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

After learning how God designed the lifecycle of eggs to caterpillars to chrysalides to butterflies, it was time to enjoy the butterflies.  And butterflies there were.  The exhibit volunteers told me that this year is one of the best.  It was amazing walking through the tropical conservatory with the butterflies freely flying around.

The girls were determined to have a butterly land on them.

Finally one landed on Stella.

They loved Stella.  She had about four land on her at different times.
Selah had one land on her finger...she was in awe!

Sadly Sofia never had one land on her (it may be due to her jumpiness every time one flew by) but Stella was sweet enough to share this one until security came and shook it off of them.

It was quite warm inside the conservatory so we took a break outside.  The girls loved going through the butterfly maze, running around the treehouse, and climbing the statues.

It really was a great time with only one incident.  And what an incident it was.  Selah (surprise!) was getting quite tired and the heat didn't help.  When she was ready to go, she was ready to go.  We were sticking around trying to wait for a butterfly to land on Sofia.  So when Selah saw a door and mommy wasn't looking, she went for it.  Then everyone knew Selah was ready to go because it was an emergency door that she opened.  The sirens went off, security came running, and the butterfly staff came to make sure no butterflies had escaped.  All the commotion overwhelmed Selah, she began to cry, and meltdown mode was in fullswing.  Definitely time to go.  



 
Thankfully we still had some smiles left for Stella to capture of mommy and her girls.