1/2!!!!

{Vogue}

My baby is a 1/2! She turned 6 months old yesterday!!! For some reason I was fine with 1, 2, 3, 4 and even 5 months old, but I'm having a hard time accepting that she's 6 months old already! And she is just getting to be more fun every day! She babbles all the time, she can say "Dadda" (even though she doesn't really know what she's saying, it's still cute!), she can sit up completely on her own, and she can roll from her back to her belly, but she forgot how to go from her belly to her back, so sometimes she gets stuck and she doesn't like that. :)

She also LOVES to be outside. She'll just sit outside for as long as you'll let her! So I figured that a good way to celebrate her 6 month birthday I would take her to Willow Park Zoo! Since it's Memorial Day I knew it would be crowded but braved it anyway, and I'm glad I did! The zoo itself wasn't too bad and the weather was perfect! Anyway, there are a lot of pictures with this post (and this isn't even all of them!), so enjoy!

Sophia was playing with Grandpa's bear (long story) while we got ready to go to the zoo!

(She's staring at the cat right now, but I still like the picture) :)

All strapped up in her Baby Bjorn (LOVE THIS THING!!!) just about to go in! She was pretty excited...

Okay, maybe it was just me that was excited - she had no idea what we were doing, she just liked watching all of the cars and people go by!

First stop: The monkeys! They were all swinging around and playing, and Sophia just LOVED watching them! It was so much fun to see her reactions that it was hard to leave! But there were more animals to see at the zoo today!

Here's an ugly duck thing - Sophia liked him because he got close to the fence.

Pheasant

She was very interested in all of the different birds - Grandma helped point some out to her.

Can't remember what these are called, but they're from Africa and Sophia liked them because they kept puffing out all of their feathers (which I had never seen them do and was kind of interesting!)

She wasn't really interested in the Eagles - they were too far away. But I liked that they posed so nicely for this picture! (And I like that Jeffrey was there and was tall enough to take the picture over the fence so it wasn't in the picture as well!)

Great Horned Owl! Jeffrey took this shot too, and I love that he got the owl's face right in one of the diamonds from the fence without even trying! The boy has some talent!

Trying to see the racoon.

I just loved this picture. :)

So those of you that have been to Willow Park know that there is a TON of cotton from those dang cotton trees that fly around everywhere - well here is what it does to the fish pond! You couldn't even see the big ugly fish! But it did look kind of pretty with the Swans I suppose...

Just another shot of the fish pond - you can see the cotton falling into it.

This goose was strutting around like he owned the place and yelled at any other bird that got in his way - it was pretty funny and Sophia liked yelling with him.

This guy has had enough for today...

So this bird is some kind of Coot or something - He followed us around and Sophia loved watching him. He's really funny looking because he has a tiny head and beak, a medium sized body and HUGE feet! Funny looking bird...

This guy cracked me up! He was very prim and proper seeming - swimming around with his tail straight up in the air and would swim around causing a ruckus, and he just stayed right next to the pipe that fed the stream.

This guy was pretty cool too - he ran right up to the fence and looked right at us when we walked by. Then he followed us along the fence "eating" the grass, but he would keep glancing up at us like he was checking to see if we were still watching him. I'm convinced he was just putting on a show for Sophia. :)

After we got back from the zoo I decided to take some 6 month pictures of Sophie. The one at the top of this post is her "Vogue" shot. :)

Cutie! I love her chunky legs, they're already starting to go away though. :(

Pure innocence right there (actually she had just pooped, but that's alright) :)

Me and my Baby Girl

Well, while I'm still having a hard time accepting the fact that Sophia is a whole 6 months old, but I guess I'll have to live with it and just keep enjoying her while she's little. I still love all of the new things that she's learning and all of the fun things she does. I love you Baby Girl!