The Kempe Family: Halfway There!

To one year that is! Shepherd turned 6 months on January 10th. We can't believe how fast time is going. I think I said this in my last post, but this age is such a fun stage! Some things he is doing right now:
-Sitting up. He will still fall over when he decides to reach for something or gets distracted, but he's getting the hang of it.
-Eating food. He eats baby cereal for breakfast, fruit for lunch, and a vegetable for dinner. He especially likes Yo-Baby yogurt that he gets for dessert sometimes.
-Sleeping through the night. It had gotten pretty rough for a while with all of our travel during the holidays. But now that we're back in a good routine he consistently sleeps from about 8:30-6:00. We are soaking up all the sleep we can get. We feel like real live human beings again!
-Loving Bea. Bea is the main attraction at our house these days, at least for Shepherd. She will come stand beside his chair at dinner and cry for food and he just stares at her and talks right back. Last night he was getting some good laughs just watching her play fetch around the house.
-Talking. Not really, but he is starting to string some syllables together. But, the only consonant he seems to know is "B," so everything is ba-ba-ba-ba. We're pretty sure is first word will be Bea because as soon as he sees her he starts up with the B's.

He isn't scooting or crawling yet, and I'm not really expecting it too soon. He seems pretty content to either lay still on his belly or use his arms to turn in circles, but there's no forward movement yet.

This past Sunday was his Baby Dedication at church and it was so sweet. When Pastor Jordan came to give Shep his blessing and pray over him, Shepherd stared up at his face the whole time. He was very interested! We hope he will always love to hear the word of the Lord.

Lastly, we had some professional pics taken of Shep for his 6 months bday, and you can see them at our photographer's website here.

And here are some much less professional pictures from the past few weeks. Sorry for the lack of blogging. I will try to be better at taking pics and at posting more regularly!