Lucy is 5 months

You think time flies with your first child and then you have a second and it is crazy, I can't believe Lucy is 5 months old.  We didn't get a weight update right around her 5 month mark but a week and a half later she was 15lb 11oz so that was a good weight gain in a little over a month.  Yeah!

 

Did I mention Lucy loves to move?  She went from rolling every direction to deciding that scooting on her tummy wherever she wanted was much easier.  She has been almost as mobile as a full on crawler and it is pretty insane.  She just started trying to get up on hands and knees but mostly she is content to be on her tummy and army crawl around.  It is awesome and scary all at the same time.  I still have lots of 3 year old toys all over the house that I hadn't quite planned on needing to hide and baby proof right away.  She is a content baby who loves to investigate and play with toys.  She will spend time intently lookng at and trying to eat whatever toy she happens to come across.  Her favorites this month were Mortimer the Moose, the fabric squre with crinkly stuff inside and her exersaucer.

 

As for her health issues she is doing better and really is quite a happy healthy girl.  She has a neck rash that has some major flare ups (she has just started itching at it) and it never really goes away.  We think it is some kind of reaction to a food but we just can't figure out what food it is.  I am currently off dairy, soy, wheat, eggs, peas, beans, chickpeas, lentils and corn.  It is quite tedious to find stuff I can eat and has definitely been the biggest challenge with Lucy.  Her intolerances don't appear to be diminishing and at times it even seems she is just even more sensitive to tons of stuff.  Hopefully once we hit the six month mark it will gradually start improving.  Her spit up also goes through phases where it is ok and then at times it gets quite bad again. 

 

She is still digging her solids!  She would eat this stuff all the time, I am looking forward to when it gets a bit less messy.

Here she is working on that crawling!