Life has been a little crazy but is finally calming down

So I guess I'm not so good at blogging. After Eden was born life was pretty crazy. I got to be home with her for about 4 months which was so great. It was still hard though. She loved to eat, sometimes that felt like all I did all day was feed her. It was hard to do much else. We went on little adventures to the laundry place and mailbox and that was about it. She didn't sleep great either. She would always fall asleep while eating and then I would try to transfer her to her crib, usually I was successful but then she would only sleep a couple hours at a time and we would start all over. I was sure that something was wrong with my milk that made her want to eat all the time but the Dr. told me that everything was fine, that some babies are like this...I was so overwhelmed during this time that I didn't feel up to doing much so that is why I never updated my blog...

Oh and then we moved...twice in three months...that will be a story for another post i think. It was a little crazy but we survived somehow. I also started back at school in January. It felt good to be back into "normal" life but it was hard to leave my sweet baby girl for entire days! Mostly Derek would watch her but we had a couple baby sitters as well. Everything worked out fine but was very busy. I pretty much felt like all I did was  take care of Eden and do Homework. I had a hard time even keeping the house clean or doing anything fun. It was ok though because I loved my time with Eden. She wasn't eating quite as often, which helped me have time for homework. I figured out that I was causing her sleep problems by feeding her to sleep so we started some "sleep training" as they call it and she started to sleep better...not great, but better, haha (maybe I'll do a post about this too...). We moved for the second time while Derek and I were both in school so it was a little nuts. We were so happy to be out of the other place though so we were happy. I made it though my first semester back with a couple A's, A-'s, B+'s and a B. I was happy with it considering how hard it was.

 I was able to have a week off, so I went home to Washington to visit my family. They were so excited to see Eden. She had so much fun, even though her schedule got all messed up. She even had her first camping trip! Well camping with electricity and a cabin to sleep in. We had a fun get together with my cousins too. One of them has a baby boy a couple months older than Eden. They had fun playing together.

 I am in school for spring term but it's much easier. We are doing our global health experience and my group is working with the Refugee population that lives in Salt Lake City. It's been pretty exciting and overwhelming so far. We visit 3 families from different places in Africa. I'm learning a lot! I've finally been able to organize our apartment and I even made some fun decorations for the wall that I'm excited about. We are trying to cook more meals as well. It was pretty rough for a while. We pretty much lived on fast food and freezer food and like sandwiches for quite a while. All of this crazyness has been so worth it though. Baby Eden is growing up fast! She will be 9 months old on the 21st. She's not crawling yet, just rolling some and scooching a little bit on her tummy. She sits up though and loves her toys. She loves going on walks and being outside. She is happy except when we try to get her to sleep when she doesn't want to(even though she is clearly tired). She's pretty stubborn, but so sweet and cute as well. We love her so much and are so grateful for her.