Missouri Botanical Garden

The Children's Garden is set up to be like an old Missouri frontier town -- such as Independence, MO. Here we are in a buggy they have set up.
They also have a dress up station. Lydia is pretending to be Sacajawea.

Henry really enjoyed the splash pad in the children's garden. He wanted to touch the bubbling fountains, but at the same time he didn't want to get too close.

Lydia is happy to have Henry with her at one of her favorite spots ever since she first visited the garden as a baby -- the little flock of sheep. I'm not sure Henry is as enthralled as Lydia is.

It's hard to tell, but Lydia, Trixie and Henry are on the bridge in the Chinese Garden -- one of Lydia's favorite spots.

Checking out one of the mama dinosaurs with her eggs. Henry was very interested in the dinosaur.

Lydia and Trixie wanted to have Henry join them as they held hands with their favorite statues. That is something the girls do every trip to the garden. Lydia wants to be sure that everyone notices she is kissing the hand of the statue. Her statue is named Maura and Trixie's is named Deidre.

Henry's favorite thing seemed to be pulling rose petals off one by one.

In front of Trixie's very favorite thing at the garden -- the onions. They are made of chihuly glass and look like floating onions. They really are beautiful.

The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of Lydia, Trixie and I's favorite places to go. Yesterday we finally had a chance to take Henry there. Lydia and Trixie were very excited to show him their favorite things. There's also a dinosaur exhibit right now, so that was an added bonus. :) It was much more difficult keeping an eye on my 3 kids than I realized it would be, but we had a great time.