What's more better then ice cream on a hot summer day! Madeleine is loving ice cream and now she can feed it to herself. It sure is messy though, not like that bothers her. 

Just relaxing

Relaxing and eating blackberries from our blackberry bush. Madeleine would go down everyday to check for ripe blackberries, she sure loves them or maybe loves to pick them more.

We made the most delicious trifle.
I love summer berries! 

bouncy horse, Named Nook by Madeleine

Cooking supper with mommy. I have to find ways to keep Madeleine busy while I cook and she is eager to help! I gave her the cabbage and she peeled it, that kept her busy for awhile.

                           

It didn't start that happy. =)

                           

She now can pull chairs up to "cook" I really need to watch her!

Summer play

 Playing outside is what Madeleine loves too do!

Blackberry picking

                     Is there anything better than summer berries? Madeleine always heads on down to the blackberries since they are so ripe and ready to pick. We have got lots this summer, Next summer we should have even more! She loves to pick her own, sometimes they are not quite ripe but she doesn't seem to mind.

another day at the zoo

It was an absolutely beautiful August day! a perfect day to spend at the zoo. I love having such a wonderful zoo in our city. Madeleine loved feeding the goats today(go figure, she could feed the goats all day if I let her)

 The baby seal is so adorable, and a favorite of mine along with the Red Panda. 

Playing in the Rain

After the longest drought in years we are finally getting rain!

   

Playing at the park

Madeleine loves going to the park, she will say swing swing over and over until I give in and take her to the park. Good thing we have a park only steps away from our backyard. I love seeing her imagination start to take off, the concrete climber became a horsey while she was on it, or as she calls them nooks! =)

Turned into a horsey 

giving horsey a hug

Giddy-up horsey!