5 months old

Lyv is 5 months old today! I can't believe that so much time has passed already. She has been sick this last week... her first illness! The poor little thing has had congestion and coughing most likely caused by a virus.... and an ear infection as well! She seems to be over the worst of it though, but both Daniel and I are sick now too! Perhaps we all caught something on our plane ride last Saturday.

Earlier this week I worked on a project for Lyv's room. It's a coat/hat rack for all her little hats and jackets. I started with an unfinished rack from Hobby Lobby and this is the final result:


The flowers are silk flowers I bought and pulled apart so they are actually raised off of the wood. Then I glued them on and sealed over them with a clear glaze so they wouldn't get snagged and yanked off. I also added the little beads for the finishing touch. I love how it turned out and I need to take time to do more projects like this because I always get so much enjoyment from it!

Lyv has been working on becoming mobile. She's kind of like an inch worm at this point. She will lift her body up as high as she can with her arms, then collapse down quickly,... rocking ever so slightly forward in the process, and then she will start again. It's like that dance move, "The Worm",.... it's quite humorous. But she will only gain a couple of inches after several attempts... so I can hardly call her mobile at this point. She can easily lift her upper body off the floor with her arms, and is working on getting her pelvis up too. Occasionally she can accomplish both simultaneously for about 1 second and then she collapses.