Golden Dreemz: 2012 Recap!

I'm saying goodbye to 2012 with a big smile on my face. Sayonara! I really did enjoy this past year, but it was also EXHAUSTING learning how to be a mother of two, taking care of a baby ALL OVER AGAIN but this time with a toddler, still dealing with the tail-end of a major house remodel, and dealing with constant sleep deprivation and terrible two's. We made it though! And I'm proud that although I was running on empty most days, I still managed to somehow make wonderful memories with my family (or I'd have you believe with these pictures!).

I wonder what 2013 has in store for us. I hope a little more sleep at least. Just a smidgen...

JANUARY

My first full month into being a mom of two, I struggle on how to juggle the kids.

Diego copes well with having a little brother

We celebrate Diego's 2nd birthday with an Angry Bird Birthday party and he gets a shiny, new Kindle Fire

FEBRUARY

I don't adjust well to the sleep deprivation that Mateo is putting me through.

I buy a SwaddleMe and surprise! It helps a lot, but still not enough

We take Diego on his first real train ride

We take a four hour roadtrip to the snow in Lake Tahoe and Mateo practically cries the entire time

Diego starts his speech therapy

MARCH

The Hubs forces me to go on a much needed adult-only weekend to wine country. Although it tore at my heart to leave my boys behind, I realized how much I needed it after my second glass of wine.

I am elated that there is paint on our walls, finally!

I take both boys on our first solo outing, difficult but successful

APRIL

Our master bedroom is finally complete and we begin sleeping in it!

I try transitioning Mateo to bottled breastmilk with little success until I find Tommee Tippee Bottles

I go back to work... Booo!

MAY

Diego starts stringing two words along

I celebrate my 3rd Mother's Day

Mateo starts eating solids and can't get enough!

JUNE

I get an awesome Father's Day gift idea which starts my obsession with making these.

Sleep troubles arise in our household when Diego starts freaking out at bedtime refusing to leave the couch, and I bite the bullet and move Mateo from the bassinet in my room to the crib in the nursury

Mateo turns 6 months but still isn't sleeping through the night, sigh

JULY

We go on a trip to Cancun, Mexico sans Mateo and airtravel with Diego is much better than the last trip, thanks to the Kindle!

I return from this trip with reduced lactation and fail to stimulate it back to regular volume

Mateo starts walking forwards in his wheeled walker and his sleeping is improving, but not quite there yet

Diego starts counting

AUGUST

Mateo says "Mama" and I feel like I've won the Olympics!

Diego starts letting out more words too, his favorite is "Shark" which sounds more like "Chuck"

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SEPTEMBER

Mateo turns 9 months and has crazy separation anxiety for me

He starts crawling

I completely dry up so he is switched to formula

My inlaws come to stay with us for a couple months to help me, yay!

I celebrate my birthday

OCTOBER

We celebrate Fleet Week in San Francisco

Diego says "Bridge" but it totally sounds like another word that rhymes with "Witch"

Mateo turns 10 months and FINALLY sleeps through the night

Diego discovers his love of pumpkin patches and we carve Angry Bird pumpkins

The boys are dinos for Halloween. Diego is a T-rex, and Mateo is a Triceratops because he gets around on all fours and is a chunky-monkey (and Mama is a cavewoman)