Family Update

Hello all, sorry for such a SHORT blog last time but I was sick with the worst flu that I've ever ever had in my life... I didn't squeal like a pig though so I don't think it was Swine Flu! HA HA! Anyway I'm back to feeling better, still cough a little but not bad. Anyway here's an update on us....
Danny (8) is definitely ready for school to be over. He went on a fishing field trip to my Uncle Eldon's pond and caught the biggest fish of the class! He was so proud of the fish, and was sad that he had to throw it back. I tease my parents all of the time saying they have "corrupted" my child because he eats things I have never wanted to. He even eats the dreaded ONIONS! yuck! Of course my nephew Jake likes to teach him to make disgusting stuff like mixing different sodas together or having a peanut butter, jelly & Tuna sandwich. GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That concerns me on a number of levels (lol a line from "Bolt"). He's excited for Fall because he will get to play soccer again! He loves to play. This year he has had my cousin Polly Edington for his 2nd grade teacher and she's been good for him. He's way excited for the summer because he gets to go camping with grandma & grandpa Welker (my parents) and then in July we will be going up to Alpine for a week! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love alpine so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

David (10) has his moments when he's seeming to progress with the autism and sometimes he just seems like he is regressing. I am having a really hard time with him right now. Sometimes he'll get where I have little to no problems with him.... but then something will set him off. If he had a bad day at school wether the teacher was hard on him (which is normally the case because she expects WAYYYYYYYYYY too much out of him) or one of the kids at school will call him "gay" which is the it word right now. I swear people just need to take their kids and swat em and wash their mouths out with soap! Kids at school get a kick out of teasing david for everything that is wrong with him including the fact that he has an overweight mother. You should hear some of the things he tells me his "friends" are telling him at school about me. I mean wether it's true or not (the fact that he does have an overweight mom) that's not their place to tease him about it and hurt his feelings. He is an oversensitive child and when I hear things that he tells me they say I just want to march up to their parents and give them a piece of my mind about telling them to teach their children some manners!

Lori Well as far as the weight loss goes I am up to 18.5 lbs lost! I'm so excited and my doctor is too. When he saw the dramatic weight jump he had to do a double take and he said "WAIT A MINUTE YOU HAVE LOST ALMOST 20 LBS IN ONE MONTH!!" Wooo go me!! if i keep that up and don't plateau for the next 12 months i will be at my goal weight in a year!!!!!!!! but I'm sure plateau is inevitable. As far as my wrist/hand goes. Still dont know what is going on. I find out the results from the Orthopedic Specialist tomorrow what the results of my wrist MRI are. Im hoping it's not arthritis but thinking it is.

Anyway till next time