Little Butterfly

Today mom took me to Powell Gardens for the butterfly festival. What an experience! We walked through a tent that had thousands of butterflies flying through it. Then, we waled the gardens and explored all of the flowers and the dinosaurs that were on exhibit. (They're fake dinosaurs, thankfully! But they look very real.)

The highlight of the trip though was the master gardeners who brought butterflies and caterpillars to a special tent. In this tent, you could touch the butterflies and let caterpillars crawl on you. This was my absolute favorite and I learned that I am much braver than mom. (She promptly returned the caterpillar to the gardener when she stopped it from crawling down my onesie and instead let it crawl on her.) The gardeners were all shocked as I kept coming back for more and more butterfly feet on my hands and arms. Plus, the wings were really soft. (Mom didn't mind that part.) The gardeners all said I was the bravest little girl they had seen my age.

At the end of the morning we went for a craft and I made my own antennas.