Butterflies and Bugs

We visited the museum with some friends the day right before school resumed from Christmas break. It was a fun trip, and we always see other areas of the museum too, but it seems we take the most pictures by the butterflies :-)




Concentration!



Sometimes the museum is just such hard work!!

Telling me all about the huge hissing beetles she was looking at.

Alyssa enjoying the bargain of 5 cent admission to the movie theater and Rebekah by the Pfister hotel in the Streets of Old Milwaukee, and blue butterfly Emma.


I had to make comment here for Dave about the bears enjoying their honey tree...on one of our very first trips to this museum when the girls were very tiny, without even thinking about what I was saying, I said something to them about "Oh look how the bears love the honey tree!" Even though the girls were so little at the time that they probably wouldn't remember my misinformation, it has become a family joke and now every time we see this scene we have to discuss that honey does not come from a tree and does in fact, require bees.

Sweet friends. I laughed looking at this picture, we of course had our three girls and our friends have five girls, and together they are quite the handful. It was a busy day of running through the museum trying to keep up with all eight of them! These four look so happy here, and I wasn't able to get a picture of everyone together all day, so this one definitely begs the question: where are the other four?!