At the end of April, the kids and I traveled to GR to see the butterflies with my sister and her husband. It was the last day of the butterfly exhibit and it was pretty busy. But, we had fun exploring the habitat of the butterflies and enjoying the warm, humid air. The kids enjoyed being able to run free. 
It was the perfect setting for some beautiful pictures...however, this pretty much sums up how well the kids posed for any pictures. Oh well...someday they might cooperate for me. Until then, we'll laugh at pictures like this.
Even when I sat with them, it didn't help...although at least it doesn't look like E is attempting to kill X anymore. But neither were thrilled with me holding them and keeping them from moving and exploring. I purposely put X in an orange shirt so that we'd be able to see him. The butterflies liked his bright shirt too. He had a bit of a swarm around him at one time. He was very visible and difficult to 'lose' until he got too hot and we had to let him run around in the gray onsie. He was a bit harder to keep an eye on when he wasn't so bright.
Aunt Stacey and the kids had fun exploring. They examined caterpillars in the Michigan room and watched one lone monarch flutter around.
It was a good thing we took 3 adults to watch my 2 children. They scampered off while exploring the wonderful butterflies and it took all of us to be able to enjoy the exhibit ourselves and keep track of the munchkins. More than once, I had a volunteer ask if X belonged to me as he wandered away. I always had a eye on him but the volunteers didn't want him to get too far away. He must have looked like he could be trouble to the fauna in the habitat.
The kids loved the bridge and E loved the 'cave'. She had to walk through it several times and would have continued to meander through it if allowed.
We did see numerous butterflies, but I took the little camera and it didn't capture very many good photos of the fluttery little guys.
After the exhibit, we went outside and played in the children's area where the kids could really run around and stretch their legs. There was a huge tree house that both kids loved. E thought that the log cabin was really neat, as we've been reading the Little House on the Prairie books. She thought seeing Laura's house was awesome. They found a huge sand area that they would have loved to play in for hours but it started to rain shortly after we found it and had to leave. We also discovered a huge water table area. The kids really would have enjoyed that had I let them play. We'll definitely have to go back again sometime!
The only damper to our day was that X tumbled out of the stroller while I was opening his car door and put his teeth through his lip. Poor little guy. He bled forever and we were in a parking lot without many supplies to work with, but thankfully the bleeding finally stopped and we were able to continue on our way.
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