Piper Dellan Photography-the BLOG: A trip to the garden, and something's missing...

Yesterday evening my husband and I took our 4 youngest up to the botanical gardens to check out the rose garden. I'll be honest, the kids weren't looking forward to our trip at all. They were thinking "flowers = BORING!" Once we got there though, things did turn around. These kids loved checking out all the flowers and exploring the paths. I think it helped that there were very few other visitors in the park at the time. My husband and I still did feel a bit like the flower police. We had some serious concern that that our kids might pick a bouquet to take home. these weren't dandelions though, and they weren't intended to be picked.
We had a good time, and I think we will definitely return. I spent sometime taking pictures of the flowers, something I've never done before.

I also got a few pictures of the kids, mainly Kiera as something pretty exciting happened between this picture and the next......

(note- yup, you guessed it, they are picking the flowers...these were just clover from the mowed part of the garden. The girls were quite happy to be able to get their hands on something....)

Notice that adorable little space between her bottom teeth? Kiera's tooth has been loose for a little bit now and she was quite patient with letting it come out in its own good time. after taking a look at her knewly created gap, I can see that her adult tooth has already broken the surface and is on its way!

Checking it out....

There was kind of a bummer to the end of this story..... As soon as we walked away from this spot, Kiera dropped the tooth by accident and more unfortunately the ground was completely covered with little tooth shaped rocks. Made it a bit difficult to retrieve the tooth. It's all okay though, because she's got the gap to prove it! It's so exciting to watch them grow up! I'm feeling pretty stoked that she lost her first tooth while we were with her and not while she was at school.

And on to the flowers....