Spring time fun in Alabama!!!
We found out about the opening of the Butterfly pavilion at the Huntsville Botanical Garden and decided to take Becca today. She had a great time. Right now they also have "BIG BUGS" too. Here are a BUNCH of pictures of the bugs, butterflies and everything else we saw on Saturday.
Enjoy!Ready to Go:
Strapped into the stroller and ready to ride through the gardens!!! She was looking at me like come on mom can we go already.
This was the cutest little train that was there as we entered the garden. Becca really enjoyed watching it and listening to it when she couldn't see it.
Here is a better view of at least a portion of the track that they have set up.
The Childrens Garden
These two are of the entrance to the children's garden
This sign says that you are entering storybook garden.
This is the rocket garden.
There was also a dianasour garden, but I didn't get any pictures of it.
This is a Wishing Well and yes Becca did get to "Make a Wish".
This is a Fairy Gate.
I don't think you can read the sign above the door, but this is a Hobbit door
They even had a yellow brick road
There were also entrances for Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear as well as their beads (but those pictures didn't turn out too well.
These next few are just some of the flowers that I thought were very pretty and wanted to share, enjoy.
The Big Bugs:
The dragonfly on little pond.
The crain fountians.
The fountians on one side of the pond.
JD and Becca posing beside of a pretty gate leading to a fish pond.
Becca looking at the snail topiary.
Another dragonfly topiary.
All over the garden they had these wooden bugs decoated by diffrent people/organizations and I really liked this one it's the flu bug.
This is the giant crickit.
The following are diffrent views of the giant praying mantis.
The cricket topiary.
A giant ant.
The lady bug picnic.
All of us infront of one of the three giant ants.
Becca infront of the giant ladybug.
The giant lady bug.
This was the dragonfly that is at the entrance of the gardens.
There were a couple of other giant bugs around but somehow we missed them, but we didn't feel like going back to try to find them. We really enjoyed seeing the ones we did find though.
Butterflies, Butterflies EVERYWHERE, oh and Turtles too!!!
Becca getting ready to pet a turtle.
Becca petting a turtle!!
The turtles were in the btterfly pavillion; she really liked them too...but not as much as the butterflies.
I just thought this bench was too cute so I had to sit on it and get JD to take my picture.
Near the end of the walk through we found a couple of little benches. This was the best picture we could get of her sitting on it.
She didn't want to sit on the bench because she was too interested in all the butterflies flying around her. She got down off the bench and immediately went over and picked up this butterfly by the wing and then started to pull on both wings. Needless to say I stopped taking pictures and got the butterfly out of her hand and out of her reach, and unharmed if flew away.
The turtle topiary inside the butterfly pavilion was just too cute!
After Lunch:
Just loved how these looked, and while I was taking a few pictures of them Becca walked over and started patting them and smelling them, take a look below.
She was so cute smelling the flowers. This was the first real time that she had been out of the stroller all all day and could really get close to the flowers. She had a great time looking at everything.
After lunch we just let her play in the area around the picnic tables and she found this tree and started patting the leaves!
Then she decided to try to give the tree a hug, it was so cute!
These were too pretty not to share.
Going Home
All worn out!!! She loves butterflies so much I just had to get one to take home and she would not let it go!
Unfortunately this was the ONLY nap she took yesterday was the ride home. She barley made it out of the park before she was out!
(and yes that was my finger in some of the pictures...my camera does not have a view finder so it was kind of hard to tell if my fingers were out of the way every time or not.)
This is a rag rug that I made.
Strapped into the stroller and ready to ride through the gardens!!! She was looking at me like come on mom can we go already.
This was the cutest little train that was there as we entered the garden. Becca really enjoyed watching it and listening to it when she couldn't see it.
Here is a better view of at least a portion of the track that they have set up.
These two are of the entrance to the children's garden
This sign says that you are entering storybook garden.
This is a Wishing Well and yes Becca did get to "Make a Wish".
This is a Fairy Gate.
I don't think you can read the sign above the door, but this is a Hobbit door
They even had a yellow brick road
The dragonfly on little pond.
JD and Becca posing beside of a pretty gate leading to a fish pond.
Becca looking at the snail topiary.
Another dragonfly topiary.
A giant ant.
The lady bug picnic.
All of us infront of one of the three giant ants.
Becca infront of the giant ladybug.
The giant lady bug.
This was the dragonfly that is at the entrance of the gardens.
Becca getting ready to pet a turtle.
Becca petting a turtle!!
I just thought this bench was too cute so I had to sit on it and get JD to take my picture.
Near the end of the walk through we found a couple of little benches. This was the best picture we could get of her sitting on it.
She didn't want to sit on the bench because she was too interested in all the butterflies flying around her. She got down off the bench and immediately went over and picked up this butterfly by the wing and then started to pull on both wings. Needless to say I stopped taking pictures and got the butterfly out of her hand and out of her reach, and unharmed if flew away.
The turtle topiary inside the butterfly pavilion was just too cute!
Just loved how these looked, and while I was taking a few pictures of them Becca walked over and started patting them and smelling them, take a look below.
She was so cute smelling the flowers. This was the first real time that she had been out of the stroller all all day and could really get close to the flowers. She had a great time looking at everything.
After lunch we just let her play in the area around the picnic tables and she found this tree and started patting the leaves!
Then she decided to try to give the tree a hug, it was so cute!
These were too pretty not to share.
All worn out!!! She loves butterflies so much I just had to get one to take home and she would not let it go!
Unfortunately this was the ONLY nap she took yesterday was the ride home. She barley made it out of the park before she was out!
