You poop tomatoes?

Goodness I meant to be better on this blogging!  It's so hard to find the time to write - by the time I come home in the evening I want to make myself as publicly unpresentable as possible, feed my family and then do nothing.  Which means spending the evening playing trains, reading books, making car noises and playing Candyland, which Mike calls CandyScatter since Erik just scatters the cards all over the place.

Weight Loss Update
  I'm 6 freaking pounds from losing 100, and I've been there for weeks!  I started exercising pretty regularly and of course that made me gain weight.  So, do I stop exercising?  Because seriously I HATE it - but I continue to do it hoping I will like it.....right. I can't wait to say "I lost 100 pounds!"

Erik
Erik is still the brightest light in my life and keeps me cracking up!  If you follow me on face book I'm sure you've seen all the craziness he says. 
I had to run some errands last week in a shopping center that has all his favorite food places (not my child at all). We were only going to Michael's and he knew that - but he still had to let Chili's know he was thinking about it.  He refused to walk into Michael's until he had paid homage to Chili's, loudly, in front of Michael's.
Imagine him, arms outstretched towards Chili's, a pleading look on his face as he exclaims - "Oh Chili's, I know you're missing me, I'm missing you too. Mommy says you are 'spensive' and we can't eat dinner at you.  I love you so much, someday I will see you again". 
LIKE I NEVER FEED HIM!!!  People are looking at me like my child is starving.  Look at this picture!  He is by no means starving - he just wants a love affair with Chili's.

Erik is completely potty trained now (Yeah for me!) but he still needs "help".  Which means when I go potty in public he has to come with me, and go as well.  We have to share a stall because he can't be outside the stall alone or he's looking under all the others saying "Hi! I'm Erik!
This is typically not a problem until I realized I was receiving a visit from my monthly friend.  This is tough with a toddler.  It hadn't even crossed my mind that someday I would be in the situation where I needed to change my business.......in front of a 3 year old. A very loud 3 year old who narrates EVERYTHING he sees.
I tried to distract by getting him to turn around, or look at the ceiling, anything to give me a minute to change.  I managed to change my stuff without him taking too much notice, but being newly potty trained he OWNS the flusher.  He wants to flush every one's stuff, including in public. I tried to reach behind me and flush but it was one of those infrared fancy self flushes and I had no choice but to stand up first to figure out how to flush it.  I tried to block his view - but no way.
He looked in the bowl, looked up at me and said in a voice full of wonder and surprise "Wow Mom!  You can poop tomatoes??  My response "Yep!  I ate too many tomatoes!"  Whew! Saved!   I could tell the lady in the next stall was muffling her own laughter.

Mike took Erik out to lunch today to another of his favorite spaces - El Pollo Loco (The crazy chicken), Erik was happily announcing to anyone who would listen that he was at "El Loco Cholo" (The crazy gangbanger) - and we live in a predominantly Hispanic area - with a high rate of gang issues.   Mike I'm sure was quickly hurrying him through that lunch - and then to his horror Erik noticed a Starbucks across the parking lot.  He immediately began to yell "there's a Starfucks daddy!" Over and over. 
Erik LOVES to changes words around and make them sound silly - I HOPE that's all he's doing with this little switcheroo.  We've told him that's a dirty word and he needs to spit it in the trash. He spent the afternoon saying "Starbucks- Starfucks" over and over.  He spent a lot of time in front of the trashcan tonight!

I can't help but giggle.................which is really not helpful at all.

I can hear him on the monitor now laying in his bed whispering "Starfucks, Starfucks, Starfucks - it's a dirty word"