Happy Mother's Day

The rose was a gift from my local Walmart greeter!  How sweet is that?

butterflies

We visited the Butterfly House that our aquarium has added this year.  On Wednesdays, if you wear wings - you can get in for free.  Carl was none too happy that I made him wear wings, but he did it.

 If you look closely here you can see that the butterflies with the brown circles on the outside are the ones that are brilliant blue on the inside.

 This one hung around on Gretchen's sneaker for a long time.

 having a fruit snack

just waiting....

 They kept landing on my camera bag, but quickly left me.

 Here is one flying over towards Carl's armpit....

 He landed and stayed for a few minutes.

 another one flying over his lap....

 That one circles around to visit Gretchen.

Don't let him fool you - he complained 99% of the time we were there.

 After the butterflies, we stopped at the beach to do their Wednesday Night Homework.  Every week on Wednesday, they have to do something creative with their list of spelling words.  Each month the teacher supplies a list of choices - except for May.  In May, you could make up your own.  One week we made letters out of food, one week we used rubber stamps... and this day we wrote our words in the sand.

 kernel

 spearmint