The Release

Sure the parade is fun, but the best part of the flutterbye for us is the butterfly release. Each child gets a monarch in a special envelope, and at the designated moment, hundreds of butterflies are released into the air.

Here is Ads with her butterfly, which she named "Flier."

Flier was a little sleepy, and didn't take off right away. We had to open the envelope really wide....

then he flapped his wings.....

began his departure...

(look at her face!)

and took off!

There he is, right above her antennae.