Happy Holidays

We've been fighting off colds here, but we're still surviving. If I have the time, I will make my annual year in review post. 

2013: Year In Review

Time for our annual Year In Review post! Here's 2012 if you want a blast from the past.

-At the beginning of the year, I was asked a fairly common question, which I still don't have an answer to.

-The Little Man started making up words to things he did not know or could not remember, with interesting results. Very creative!

-He became obsessed with Science Is Real (still is!). Because of that CD, he knows the order of the planets by heart. We are all very proud.

-He had his first assessment for school (the one he's at now). Very happy he was accepted. He's such a charmer.

-We bought our first house!

-I went on vacation by myself and came back jet lagged.

-I went to BlogHer13

-I got diagnosed with ASD!

-I started my Wondrous Wednesdays series.

-The Little Man started school! Doesn't he look like a big boy?!

-I started being an Autistic Self-Advocate and took part in a flash blog.

-I started to become more self-aware of my Autistic self and its benefits.

-We had a great birthday party for the Little Man.

-I expressed my dislike of Autism $peaks just a bit before their horrible call to action.

-I started trying to let people know Autism is not contagious!

-I came out as Autistic at work.

-We had to move out of our house during renovations and that was stressful.

Now we're back home and had Christmas dinner at my mom's, where I got angry at her and left (maybe I will make a post about that later). We are all happy to be back and ready for the new year.

Thank you for being part of our lives over this past year! Happy New Year!

2012: Year in Review

I say it's not too late to do a "Year in Review" sort of post. After all, 2012 was just a few weeks ago. So here's a look back at crazy 2012!

First-second quarter of 2012: The Little Man was weaned! We started in the spring and finished mid-June. He was 32.5 months. Woohoo! 

We looked into our infertility treatment options and made peace with it.

Then the Little Man got diagnosed with ASD, finally!

I got a new full time job! But there's no post about it for me to link to :(

We took a road trip to see The Wiggles for their final tour!

The Little Man then got diagnosed with apraxia and I was upset.

We all went gluten free! (More updates on that soon!)

I finally came out to his daycare worker about The Little Man's diagnoses.

We revisited fostering and are still hemming and hawwing....

We talked about goal-setting and everything we've achieved this year.

We had a crazy experience trying to find a banana on New Year's Eve.

Memories to last a lifetime! 

Is there anything special I've forgotten that you remember? What special dates in your family will remain etched in your memory from 2012?