a beautiful day with the babe

The weather is absolutely perfect today and as you can see... Maddie was itchin' to go outside and enjoy it.

Yes, she can walk herself right up to the screen door, open it and let herself out. Yes, its scary. Its not like we leave her alone and we're scared she'll escape - but this literally happens in seconds! No more leaving the screen door unlocked!

Maddie had a great time playing in the backyard. We really havent been able to enjoy the yard because of the mosquitos all summer - so I think we'll start spending a lot more time out there now that they're gone.

After lunch - Maddie, Tucker and I decided to go to our awesome neighborhood park. Its right down the road from us AND has a coffee shop about two doors down (bonus for mommy). The park is great because its stocked with big riding toys that we don't have so Maddie gets to stretch her legs and scoot around.

Yep, here's Tuck waiting patiently for us. And yep, there's my ice coffee...

There were lots of other kids there that Maddie was fascinated with. She sat in that little car watching Tallulah and Olive play (Im not kidding, those were their names. We also met Amelie and Brody. You'd think we live in Hollywood with these names. We would have probably met Apple and Honor if we'd stayed longer).

And she loved the swings. You can tell by her face.

And the last thing we played on was the slide. I cant believe it but she goes right down it no problem. No fear at all!

She fell asleep on the walk home and is still asleep almost 2 hours later! I guess the park really wore her out!

We're very excited for the weekend. We're hoping maybe Daddy won't have to work (fingers crossed) and we can have some blog-worthy fun. No go out and enjoy the rest of the day!