Long time, no write!

It's been a long time since I wrote so I guess this will be a long one!  My weight loss is slow but steady and I'm grateful for that. Mike says I'm about 20 pounds from being HIS weight!!  Wow...to weigh less than my husband.  My mind would be blown.
I'm going through my clothes like crazy - today two more bags went to Goodwill.......I can't really replenish with the current size, because then I'll need a smaller size - so I'm slowly buying smaller things to get into. Isn't it funny I used to buy things a bit small and think "I'll lose 5 pounds and get into that"..HA HA HA!! Well, I can wear all those clothes now! 
Here's the pros I've noticed this month -
    -My whole arm now fits comfortably in those drugstore blood pressure machines.
    - I can sit next to Erik on the kiddie roller coaster.
    -I'm no longer worried I'm going to break a fold-up chair in a staff meeting. (It's happened....and it's HORRIBLE)
    -Disneyland was hot as hell two weeks ago - but I imagine it would have been unbearable 80 pounds heavier.
    -I put on a belt yesterday to hold my pants up (the one and only belt I own) and I had to put it on the last hole AND I wore it all day and it was comfortable - who knew belts weren't horrible torture devices designed to cut me in half when I sat down? They sure were before!

And here's the cons
     - My pants won't stay up - and this makes it hard to get through the day.
     - The vitamins are HORRIBLE, even though I found some bearable ones....it's still all I can do to get them down.
     -My hair is still falling out like crazy.  I used to have REALLY thick hair, I could only get a rubber band around it twice...now I can get it around FOUR times.  I've lost half my hair.  I have to really hope that it stops falling out soon....sigh.

We had a great end to summer with a trip to the beach house to visit my family and that awesome great grandma of mine.  Erik spent lots of time with his older girl cousins flirting and being his charming self.  He had lots of attention!  There was some pseudo surf lessons, wave jumping and walks on the beach.

 We are looking forward to heading down again next week to hang out with my Dad. Erik is thrilled to spend some time with his Papa and Mimi. Mike looks like this at the beach house.

We also hit Disneyland again (I know....we have passes so it's easy), Erik finds something new he loves each time.   This time it was 105 both days we were there.....it wasn't great, but it was still Disneyland. On the way home on I-5 in that 105 heat the air conditioner on the car went out, and Erik threw up.  That's one trip home we'll never forget.
 We typically let Erik pick ONE toy each Disneyland visit.   He's into Lego's lately and it took him a long time at the Lego store but he kept going back to this Cinderella Lego set.  He loves it.  Mike could live without the pink Lego's, but I love that he chose it.

 

 

Erik's been very chatty lately, and silly.  He's working hard on running - but we still don't have it yet.  This week he has an appointment with Kaiser OT and the school district OT.  The school district Speech and Language therapist was here this week and decided maybe she could get him in for reciprocal language - but there's no way he'll get services based on his 8 year old (!) vocabulary.  Hopefully he will also qualify for OT via the school district.  Here's a recent video of Erik acting like he does every night.  Hope every one's doing well!