Jumping in (not so) muddy puddles

Madie loves this little cartoon called "Peppa Pig" and on it they quite frequently jump in muddy puddles. When it started raining a few weeks ago, Madie wanted to jump in the puddles.

She even made Zach & I get in on the fun, and fun it was. We all had a blast!

After it had been raining for a few minutes the rain got really cold so Madie wanted to dry off. Well that didn't last long and so she went back into the water sans clothes.

And decided that it would be a good idea to lay down in the puddles!

And a little video of her jumping in the rain.

Museum Trips

Thanks to the culture pass and to the School of Bio-Engineering (Zach's work) we got to go to the science center and the museum of natural history...for FREE!

Pictures from the Science Center

Watching a combustion demonstration

This wall was so neat. It had computerized "rocks" that fell down this screen and you could use your shadow to catch them.

Madie pulling herself up...with some help of course.

Spinning around and around.

Pictures from the Museum of Natural History

Madie looking at a dinosaur outside of the museum.

This is the first thing you see when you walk in the door.

There was a huge wall with dinosaurs and plants and a little stream. Some of the dinosaurs even moved their heads or roared.

Every 45 minutes or so they have a "flash flood". The lights flash, there are sounds of thunder and a bunch of water pours down the stream. Madie didn't care for the lights and thunder but enjoyed the gushing water.

This looked so much cooler in person. For some reason the flash makes the painting look super fake.

Madie panning for gold outside the museum.

Monkey

After watching this video Madie came up to me and said "not aahh aahh, a cow".

Tour of the fire station

We got invited by some of our friends to go tour the fire station with them in May. Madie LOVED it!!! In some areas of her life she is quite girly (shoes, painted nails, make up, princesses) but she is also partial to some "boy" things, such as tools, trucks and dinosaurs. The whole time she kept asking to see the truck and was excited when it was time for that part of the tour.

She was not shy! She got right up in front with kids she didn't know so that she could see all of the equipment that the firemen were showing us.

She even got to go inside the fire truck, but apparently we don't have any pictures of that. And the best part of the trip? Right toward the end they got a call and had to race into the truck and drive away with lights and sirens on!

Summer Randomness

In an effort to get caught up on posting...here are a bunch of random pictures from over the summer.

Madie likes to pretend she is riding a horse...or an elephant, whatever.

Madie, Jenny & Katie enjoying a tea party.

Helping Grandma make cupcakes after the tea party was over.

Helping shuck the corn. Madie kept saying that the corn was hiding.

Doing some quality control :)

One of her favorite phrases lately is "Madie's turn." Here she is having a turn wiping off the table. This was her idea not mine, in fact I couldn't get her to give me back the wash cloth so I had to go get a different one!

Apparently she needed wiped down also.

Zach was laying in her tunnel and she crawled through it just so she could crawl over him.

Taking her baby doll for a ride on the little blue car.

Playing dress up in Auntie Lori's shoes...

...and wearing her shirt as a dress.

I just love the look on her face in this picture.

Pulling Lori in the wagon.

Zoo trip

We took Madie to the zoo in June. Yes it was hot, but we went early in the morning and didn't stay very long...plus it was free! Thank you very much culture pass. 

When we first got through the gates we asked Madie what animal she wanted to go see...she picked the koi. We literally had to pull her away from them to get her to go see other animals. 

She enjoyed the frog statue...

I wish I had had the camera for this picture, she was smiling so big and laughing when she put her hand in the frogs mouth.

Here she is looking at some of the real frogs. She loved running from window to window to look at all the different varieties.

It was hot, but we had a good time. I think we'll try and go back in the fall/winter. Maybe we'll even get a picture of her face!

Welcome to our new blog!

As you are aware by the email that you received, we have a new blog! Don't worry...all of our old posts are still here, we are just at a new address:

http://ashleyandzachwatson.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!